A simple ray tracer implemented in a two-week pair-project phase.

Features

• Diffuse lighting using Lambert's cosine law
• Specular highlights using Blinn-Phong
• Shadows
• Transparency (adjustable)
• Recursive reflections (recursion depth adjustable)
• refraction using Snell's law
• Shapes with adjustable dimensions
  • Spheres
  • Axis-aligned finite planes
• Texturing
• Point lights with adjustable brightness
• Camera with adjustable FOV
• Parallelized rendering on Linux
• Scene configuration in json files
• Simple scene configurator and material editor implemented with the GUI framework WPF

GUI

Main Window

• Scene loader
• Adjustable image dimensions
• Material list, opens a material editor upon clicking
• Button to open the camera editor
• Button to open the material-viewer-editor
• Render Button

Material editor

• Button to close the material viewer
• Material selector
• Input field for refractive index
• Slider for transparency
• Button to open folder of material
• Button to save changes to the material config

Object editor

• Material selector
• Input fields for the object's position
• Shape specific dimensions (e.g. for planes:input fields for the orientation of the plane and the dimensions)
• Button to remove the object from the scene

License

Copyright (C) 2021 Jonas Muehlmann, Tim Dreier

The project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license, you can view it here.