Recursive Ray Tracer

Simple example of recursive ray tracer to render scenes offline.

Features

• Phong shading as basic shading model
• multithreaded rendering in CPU
• Three types of primitive objects are supported
  • Teapot
  • Cube
  • Sphere
• Images are rendered to screen using SDL

Requirements

This project compiles with visual studio 2022 by default. If you need a different version of visual studio, feel free to change the content of the scripts/win-genproject.bat to match your visual studio version.

Installation

For now, the only supported platform is windows. To install:

1. git clone --recurse-submodules this repository
2. Go to recursive-ray-tracer/scripts
3. Run win-genproject.bat. This command will generate a Visual Studio 2022 project you can open and compile.
4. Open the generated visual studio solution RecRays.sln
5. Set start up project as rec_rays if necessary
6. Specify path of scene to render as command line arguments. You can find a default scene in rec_rays/scenes/test.txt