CPU-based Offline Ray Tracer

A small ray tracer: an entry point into rendering and graphics programming. It focuses on fundamental ray tracing concepts implemented from scratch, serving as the first step toward real-time rendering with OpenGL and GPU-based ray tracing.

Features

Ray-sphere and ray-quad intersection Recursive ray tracing with configurable max depth BVH acceleration structure Lambertian, Metal, and Dielectric materials Diffuse light sources (emissive materials) Procedural textures (checker, Perlin noise) Image textures Volumetric fog (constant medium) Depth of field Motion blur Anti-aliasing Object transformations (rotation, translation)

Build & Run

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Criss-Ivana/Offline-Ray-Tracer.git
cd Offline-Ray-Tracer

# Build the project
make

# Run the raytracer to generate an image
make run

Gallery

This project was a lot of fun, highly recommend!