Raytracer

zero-impact · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:50 pm

Hi everybody, for the last week or so I have been working on this little ray tracer as a personal interest project. I'm not going to post the code quite yet, but here is a sample image and the .exe
Tell me what you think! Smile

saltpro15 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:08 pm

Should've spent that time talking to the girlfriend Wink

But nice job! +karma and bits

andrew. · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:38 pm

I'm not in Windows right now, so I'm just wondering how fast is it (in FPS) on average?

saltpro15 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:46 pm

I can answer that. It rendered that picture in 11 seconds

zero-impact · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:24 pm

Yes, as of now there are no optimizations at all. So it takes about 11 seconds to render that scene at 1280x720.

On a more simple scene it can get about 5 fps.

andrew. · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:19 pm

That's quite cool though still. Even if it took 2 minutes to process one image, it's pretty impressive especially because you did it yourself. Also, I'm sure the math involved is fairly complex as well. Being able to program this is an amazing feat (well to me it is Very Happy

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zero-impact · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:07 pm

Well, I'm a grade 12 student taking all the math courses. Although I still have never been taught vectors which is the only concept I really had to teach myself a lot about.

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:21 pm

zero-impact @ Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:07 pm wrote:

Although I still have never been taught vectors

Shouldn't that be covered in, at least, physics?

TheGuardian001 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:11 pm

Tony @ Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:21 pm wrote:

zero-impact @ Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:07 pm wrote:

Although I still have never been taught vectors

Shouldn't that be covered in, at least, physics?

Where I live it's bundled in with Gr 12 Calculus.

andrew. · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:31 pm

It's bundled with calculus where I live. And yes Tony, it is kind of covered in physics. Just the basics though.

zero-impact · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:51 pm

Well, yes it is covered in gr 10 and gr 11 physics, but not to the extent needed to develop a ray tracer.

The vectors I have used in my physics classes were very simple things like 27m[20degrees N of E].

SNIPERDUDE · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:28 pm

I wished vectors was better taught (in more depth) when I was in school. Taught myself as did many here it seems.

Vermette · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:33 am

Calculus? I had vectors covered in at least three separate classes, 12 and OAC physics and OAC Algebra.... oh right new curriculum.

zero-impact · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:16 pm

Here is an image that really pushes it to its limit.

301 reflective spheres and 3 reflective planes.

Took ~8mins to render at 1920x1080, using one core of a P8600 2.40GHz

zero-impact · **Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:39 pm

This sphere fractal takes 79s to render.

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