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Ray Tracer

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Email: penny@penny.id.au


Background

(Apologies in advance for the brevity of this page)

I studied ray tracing at UTS in the Autumn Semester of 2004, under a lecturer named Dr Kevin Suffern. I found the topic fascinating and was amazed by the results that could be produced from such a simple (yet large) set of code. I chose to implement my ray tracer using C#.Net, which traded fast development times for slower execution times.

This semester (Spring 2004), I am working on a graphics project which involves rewriting the ray tracer in C++ under Mac OS X and implementing ray visualisation functionality.

Images

Here are a few images produced by my ray tracer. They are saved in .png format to provide the best compression/quality ratio - most web browsers should be able to handle this. Click the images to view them full-size.


Dance - instancing, affine transformations,
crude soft shadows and reflections.
Earth - transparency, texture mapping,
selection between multiple materials.

Torii - complex ray-object intersections,
transparency.
Spheres - reflections, phong shading.

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Dr Kevin Suffern - The brilliant lecturer responsible for the teaching of ray tracing at UTS.
UTS - The University of Technology, Sydney.