Table of Contents

• twinkle
  • Building
  • Testing
  • Current Features
  • Planned Features

twinkle

Twinkle (tentative name) is path tracer written C++. It will emphasize tracing implicit surfaces using physically realistic BRDFs in a distributed setting.

Building

make should create the twinkle executable, ./twinkle.

Testing

make test will run an assorted, disorganized collection of unit tests.

Current Features

Shapes

• Sphere
• Plane
• Implicit Surface
• KD-tree-based triangle mesh
• • quad (based on mesh) Lights
• Point
• Directional
• Shape-based
• Environmental (only one allowed) Surface integrators
• Basic path tracing
• intersection testing BRDFs
• Diffuse (Lambertian)
• Mirror (perfect specular)
• Oren Nayer
• Fresenel reflection (glass) Output Formats
• ASCII(Console)
• PPM Multithreading ToneMaps
• RSSF (local and global) Textures
• Grid
• Checker
• solid
• perlin noise