Little Ray Tracer is a lightweight ray tracing engine written in C++ using SDL2, the STL library, and a custom-made linear algebra library. This project demonstrates essential ray tracing principles, including geometric transforms, lighting, and textures, optimized for efficient rendering. This project is for educational purposes only, this is a learning experience for me.
- Geometric Primitives: Supports rendering of spheres, planes, cylinders, boxes, and cones.
- Camera Geometry: Implements camera positioning, view direction, and perspective projection.
- Lighting and Shadows: Includes support for basic lighting models and shadow casting.
- Materials: Handles simple and refractive materials with various surface properties.
- Textures: Supports UV mapping, image textures, and procedural textures.
- Noise: Integrates both value noise and gradient noise for texture generation.
- Normal Mapping: Includes both texture-based and image-based normal mapping.
- Rendering Optimizations: Uses tile-based rendering and multithreading for improved performance.
Description: Demonstrating light refraction and reflection on a refractive material.
Description: Cones, Cylinders, Spheres
Description: Example showcasing UV space and image texture mapping on geometric shapes.
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Ensure you have SDL2 and the STL library installed. You also need to include the custom-made linear algebra library provided in the repository.
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Compile the project using your preferred C++ compiler. Example with
g++:g++ -o raytracer main.cpp -lSDL2
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Run the executable: ./raytracer
- Global Illumination
- Advanced camera effects (e.g., depth of field, motion blur)
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.