In this coursework project I have created a ray tracing based image renderer. Some basic shading and lighting components were programmed: Phong shading, reflection, refraction, shadows, and smooth shading using barycentric coordinates. On top of this photon mappping (based on this paper) was implemented to improve global illumination. The render below is an image created with all those techniques implemented.
Please refer to the Report.pdf document for more information.
Alglib: Folder containing a dependency.
CPP Files: Implemented class files.
Header Files: Headers, imported into CPP files.
ply_files: Polygon objects used in the final render.
Report.pdf: A report outlining the implementation of this project.
test.sh: A shell script to compile and run the files. Warning: if you intend to run them, consider using OpenMP or another parallelization framework, otherwise this will take a long time to run. This code has been prepared to use OpenMP (look for the #pragma statements in image_generator.cpp).
- Alglib (included)
- gcc