C++ implementation of an image ray tracer introduced in the Ray Tracing -book series.
In order to learn about the essential math and things related to ray tracing, I decided to follow the great Ray Tracing -book series and implement my own version of the ray tracer. I followed the general logic and structure of the books, but took some liberty in certain areas. I have an interest in transforming the code into CUDA some day for acceleration purposes. Thus, I have made some critical architectural design changes, such as avoiding virtual functions altogether.
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Graphical User Interface
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Multi-Threaded C++ Renderer
- Accelerated rendering using multiple CPU cores via a thread pool.
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No runtime polymorphism (i.e. virtual functions)
- Runtime polymorphism is largely present in the book, and understandably so. It does make the code simpler to understand and easier to implement. But it comes with cost of virtual function overhead at runtime.
- Instead, I've opted to use Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP) for compile-time polymorphism (CTP).
