draingangscholar / raytracer

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

This repository contains my implementation of the ray tracing techniques outlined in the book "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" by Peter Shirley. I followed the tutorial in the book to create a simple ray tracer from scratch.

Overview

Ray tracing is a rendering technique used to generate realistic images by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the way it interacts with the objects in a scene.

Results

Below is the result of following the tutorial:

How to Run

To run the code:

1. Clone the repository.
2. cd RayTracer
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake ..
6. cmake --build .
7. ./RayTracer > image.ppm

Please note that this ray tracer runs on the CPU, which can be slow for complex scenes. In the future, parallelization techniques or a GPU implementation could be explored to improve performance.