Software Renderer

Introduction

Software renderer shows the automatic process of generating a image from a 3D model by means of computer programs. It contains a common implementation of basic principles in polygon-related graphics theory.

• 3D Transformations

• Backface Culling

• Clipping

• Phong Lighting (Blinn-Phong reflection model)

• Triangles Spliting

• Scanline filling

• Bresenham's Line Algorithm

• Z-buffering

• Point / Bilinear Filtering

Requirement

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Compile and Run

• Only for Windows users (cause using GDI):

Open the project solution (SoftwareRenderer.sln) then run it. It' s as easy as it can get.

Others

• Blog

(SoftwareRenderer/2018-02-17-software-renderer)

• Explanation of implementation

(SoftwareRenderer/ImplementationDetails.zip)

Screenshots

Wireframe mode

Vertex color mode

Texture mode

Lighting on