sohamborate / ripple

Raytracer in C

Ripple

Ripple is a raytracer made completely from scratch in the C programming language.

It started by rendering simple spheres but aims to render complex objects with varying geometry and aesthetic lighting.

Building

This program uses the GCC compiler with Make on Windows 11 x64-based operating system

> make ripple
gcc -o ripple ripple.c vec3.c sphere.c bmp.c

Usage

Run the program specifying the height and width.

> ripple 1024 1024
Sphere (0x5d5ffbe0) (0.000000 0.000000 10.000000) (4.000000)

Width: 1024, Height: 1024
Sun position: Vector3 (0x5d5ffb30) (0.000000 -10.000000 0.000000) (10.000000)

Render time: 0.366000 seconds

You should see an output.bmp file