Clipping Space

Our ray tracing class ended with a ray tracing competition that any student could optionally enter. The only requirement was our ray tracer...

Design Choices I decided to model a chess set for my image. All pieces in the scene are modeled with triangles except the board (a box) and...

Design Choices To implement instancing, I created an instance class inherited from the Primitive class. This allowed a simple abstraction f...

Design Choices Most of the code modifications occurred in the Scene class. I chose to do this since it seemed logical that different scenes...

Design Choices For the design of the texture mappers, I followed a scheme similar to the one Dr. Parker recommended. I created a TexCoordMa...

Design Choices I originally intended to do a BVH using an quad-tree, where the tree were recurse down to some arbitrary size. This gave me ...

Design Choices The three new material models were a dielectric, a phong, and a metal. All three shared specular properties so code was shar...