Introduction

This page includes technical information and personal experiences on the homeworks of CENG795 Advanced Ray Tracing class.

Content

This section includes different versions of the Ray Tracer. Each version has it's own subsection. These subsections include:

• Brief explanations of what is being added in that version.
• Resulting images in that version.
• What kind of bugs have been encountered and how did I manage to fix them.
• My personal experiences.

If applicable, time comparisons of different implementations are also added in these subsections.

Versions

Different versions of the Ray Tracer are provided below. Version at the top is the latest.

7. Path Tracing

6. BRDF

5. HDR Imaging and Advanced Lights

4. Texture, Normal and Bump Mapping

3. Transformations, Instancing, Multisampling and Distributed Ray tracing

2. Recursive Ray Tracing

1. Basic Ray Tracer