Path Tracing

Path tracing to create photorealistic renderings of 3D scenes.

Features

• Ray tracing with point sources of light
• Supported shapes: Cuboid, Plane, Sphere and their affine transformations
• Supported materials:
  • Diffuse objects
  • Metals with specified reflectance
  • Transparent objects with specified refractive index
• Light transport effects:
  • Soft shadows
  • Recursive reflections and refractions
  • Total internal reflection
  • Indirect illumination
  • Caustics

Demo

Installation

1. Install required packages: SDL2, SDL2 Image, OpenGL, GLEW, CMake.

# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-image-dev libglm-dev libglew-dev libopengl-dev cmake

2. Create build directory in the project root.

mkdir build

3. Build the project

cd build
cmake ..
make

4. Run any of the examples: e1, e2, e3, ...