Ray Tracing Project

Authors: Abid Jeem

Overview

This repository contains a basic ray tracer in Python. It supports:

• Spheres, Planes, Cubes, Ellipsoids, Torus
• Recursive Ray Tracing (reflections and refractions)
• 3D Noise Materials (clouds, wood, marble, etc.)
• 2D Image Texturing for spheres and planes
• Sky Plane or background with a texture
• Fog/Atmospheric effects

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Features

1. Recursive Reflection & Refraction

   • Objects can have a reflection_factor (0.0 to 1.0).
   • Transparency (trans) and refraction index for glass/water-like materials.
   • Fresnel approximations, partial reflection/refraction.

2. Multiple Lights

   • Directional or Point Lights
   • Basic shadow checks (hard shadows).

3. Progressive Rendering

   • Renders from coarse to fine resolution.
   • Cancel early by closing the PyGame window.

4. Modular Objects & Materials

   • Objects each implement intersect(...) and getNormal(...).
   • Materials can be plain color, 3D noise, or 2D textures.