Nick's Ray Tracer

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Tour: here

Project: Distributed Ray Tracer here.

Implementations

• Camera
  • Perspective
  • Lens (Pending)
• Geometry
  • Sphere
  • Plane
  • Triangle
  • Cones (Pending)
  • Textured Triangles
  • Textured Spheres
• Lighting Model
  • Point
  • Rectangular Area
  • Spherical Area (Pending)
• Material
  • Lambertian
  • Metallic
  • Dieletric
  • Solid Stripe
  • Blend Stripe
  • Turbulent Stripe (Perlin Noise)
  • Color Texture Map
  • Normal Texture Map
• Containers
  • Scene (No Optimizations)
  • Bounding Volume Heirarchy (Using Axis-Aligned Boxes)
  • Instance
• Transformations
  • Cardan Angle Rotation (Yaw, Pitch, Roll in Degrees)
  • Translation
  • Scale
• Global Pixel Modifiers
  • Scale
  • Normalize
  • Subtract
  • Invert (Pending)
  • Tone Mapping
  • Gamma Correction
  • Clamp Modifier
• File Parsers / Converters / Loaders
  • 3DS Max *.ASE Converter
  • Stanford's .PLY Converter
  • PPM Reader/Writer Methods
  • PPM Viewer for Windows (Uses FoxToolkit)
  • For Image Conversions (to/from PPM), I used The Gimp 2.2
• Project
  • Socket
  • Address Lookup
  • Client
  • Server
• Not implemented:
  • Cones
  • Polygons
  • Spherical Area Lights
  • Lens Camera

Credit

• Dr. Reinhard's Notes
• Peter Shirley's Book and Ken Perlin's Website
• Shane Taber, Theo Quarles, and the rest of MCL for 3D Models and Textures
• Jason Gauci for 3D Models
• Adam Campbell (I'm sure I have one of his data files in here somewhere)
• Stanford's 3D Scanning Repository
• Georgia Tech's Large Model Repository
• The website that explained Tangeant Space really well (forgot it!)
• Wherever I downloaded my normal maps (lime.com or something dumb like that)
• Gimp (for converting images)
• Other People I may have forgotton.