ilyabelow / raytracing

Simple and quick raytracing w/ only std C++

Note: I wrote this before I found out about SDF and graphics pipeline in general

Raytracing

Simple raytracer that I've written as an exercise in C++ and geometry using only my brain and C++ standard library

The raytracer supports:

• Planes, spheres and cylinders

• Coordinate system for each surface type which enables to make any shape

(it's a water lily)

• Reflection, refraction and translucency

• Textures
• Rendering to files

TODO:

• Light! lighting is literally the coolest thing about raytracing
• Quaternions! because Direction abstraction sucks
• Custom textures! for that I'll have to read image files w/ external library
• Concurrency! so it runs fast
• Drawing to a screen! because opening files in not cool
• Anti-Aliasing! so distant textures are not as noisy
• More demos! and bug fixes