Simple Ray Tracer

An implementation of a basic ray tracer following Ray Tracing In One Weekend Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

Outside the scope of the book, I added:

• multithreading
• triangle rendering

Usage

1. Configure the project and generate the native build system, and call the build system to compile and link the project:

$ make build

The compiled executables will be placed in build/bin.

2. Invoke the ray tracer and output the results to a file

$ ./bin/raytracer > image.ppm

Literature

• Shirley, P. (2016). Ray tracing in one weekend. Amazon Digital Services LLC, 1.
• Möller, T., & Trumbore, B. (1997). Fast, minimum storage ray-triangle intersection. Journal of graphics tools, 2(1), 21-28.