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A raytracer that generates one (pretty) picture of some spheres
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This is a raytracer I wrote once since I didn't think I knew enough math. I never actually got a chance to use any 3D matrices, so I still don't know them, but I think there were some neat parts in here. I don't like raytracing anymore, though; it's good for refraction but good antialiasing and textures are too hard. If I work on this again I'll ditch it completely and do forward raytracing for global illumination, then some kind of ordinary rendering with edge AA+good textures (or try to combine them in some way so it can still have camera effects). ======================================= Neat parts ======================================= * Better-than-bilinear texture interpolation * Attempts to be more correct than usual for image import/export - images are properly converted between sRGB and linear FP RGB using noise shaping. * Simulates unpolarized Fresnel equations * A backtracking hack for caustics without doing global illumination * SSSE3 accelerated vector class * A somewhat-successful nonlinear texture interpolation algorithm ======================================= Not-neat parts ======================================= * It's unreadable. Although I'd like to think it's better than the tutorials I read first. * No collision acceleration. It is pretty fast considering this+backtracking, though. * The texture interpolation has a fixed-sized support, so it'll look bad if textures are effectively downsized. * You can only do spheres and checkerboards. * No scene file format. ====================================== Short-term todo ====================================== * Fix top half of the image being black. * Adopt Cook-Torrance instead of Phong+Fresnel.
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