miniRT

From scratch take on building a simple RayTracing engine.

Pretty images

We tried going for scenes like this example:

<- example

how it turned out:

And then RTX ON:

huh...

This square is actually a Linf norm ball ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Trouble

Not everything was pretty in this journey towards realism. But sometimes getting results that could not be further away from reality, is itself a beauty you cannot find in the real world

You are supposed to render the triangle, not everything else...

using norm Linf instead of good ol L2

This is a sphere supposedly:

zoom out

zoomer out

There are no more available zoomers to code this.

jk this one is actually the pillar scene lol.

Refraction

This is not a feature present on this ratracer (yet) and for a reason