Features

Here are the asked features of the raytracer project:

Must

• Primitives:

  • Sphere
  • Plane

• Transformations:

  • Translation

• Light:

  • Directional light
  • Ambient light

• Material:

  • Flat color

• Scene configuration:

  • Add primitives to scene
  • Setup lighting
  • Setup camera

• Interface:

  • No GUI, output to a PPM file

Should

• Primitives:
  • Cylinder
  • Cone
• Transformations:
  • Rotation
• Light:
  • Dropshadows

Could

• Primitives:
  • Limited cylinder (0.5)
  • Limited cone (0.5)
  • Torus (1)
  • Tanglecube (1)
  • Triangles (1)
  • .OBJ file (1)
  • Fractals (2)
  • Möbius strip (2)
• Transformations:
  • Scale (0.5)
  • Shear (0.5)
  • Transformation matrix (2)
  • Scene graph (2)
• Light:
  • Multiple directional lights (0.5)
  • Multiple point lights (1)
  • Colored light (0.5)
  • Phong reflection model (2)
  • Ambient occlusion (2)
• Material:
  • Transparency (0.5)
  • Refraction (1)
  • Reflection (0.5)
  • Texturing from file (1)
  • Texturing from procedural generation of chessboard (1)
  • Texturing from procedural generation of Perlin noise (1)
  • Normal mapping (2)
• Scene configuration:
  • Import a scene in a scene (2)
  • Setup antialiasing through supersampling (0.5)
  • Setup antialiasing through adaptive supersampling (1)
• Optimizations:
  • Space partitioning (2)
  • Multithreading (1)
  • Clustering (3)
• Interface:
  • Display the image during and after generation (1)
  • Exit during or after generation (0.5)
  • Scene preview using a basic and fast renderer (2)
  • Automatic reload of the scene at file change (1)