tomice / weekendtracer

Following along with P. Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend

Weekend Raytracer

About

This repo is mostly following along with the famous Ray Tracer in One Weekend
by Peter Shirley. I am slowly refactoring it, adding/removing from it, and
just having fun with it as I learn more about ray tracing in general.

This particular example will output a PPM file which can be read by any
multitude of PPM readers out there. For OS X, Peter originally recommended
ToyViewer. I used OpenSeelt on Windows 10. Gimp is always an option for just
about any platform, too.

Build

This should be able to compile on just about anything that has a C++ compiler
written after like 1998 or something. No special libraries are needed for this.
However, it will not compile cleanly at the moment on Linux/BSD-based systems.
I'll eventually go and clean the errors later. It's mostly rval/lval stuff and
redefinitions of things that exist on the target system already.

License

Peter Shirley released the original Ray Tracing series under the Creative
Commons license. Given how closely this code resembles the original work
(I don't take credit for this code; I'm simply using his tutorial as a learning
process), I'm using the same license.

Authors

Original code written by Peter Shirley
Reimplemented and modified by Tom Ice