TinyRayTracer

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Introduction

A simple implemention of ray tracing. Written by pure C++, without any 3rd library.

Build

For Linux/Unix

cd TinyRayTracer
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

For Windows

Take Visual Studio as an example

1. Make sure you have installed cmake for windows and launch CMake-GUI.
2. Browse Source(Path of TinyRayTracer) and Browse Build(Destination path)
3. Click configure and Select Visual Studio on the popuped dialog.
4. Generate
5. The .sln will be located in the Destination path.

Run

For Linux/Unix

cd ../bin
chmod +x tray #optional
./tray

For Windows

Run the tray.exe in the TinyRayTracer/bin directory.

The tray program will read the file 'world.txt' and generate a ppm image file 'output.ppm', which can be opened by xnview or photoshop or any other ppm supported image viewer. You can change the world.txt following the instruction.

Have fun :)

Result