Ray Tracer

A simple ray tracing engine written in C++.

Features

• Monte Carlo ray tracing algorithm
• Depth of field
• Motion blur
• Materials: Lambertian, Metal, Dielectric
• Antialiasing
• Parallel rendering (pixel level)

Outputs

Depth of Field

Without Depth of Field	With Depth of Field

Motion Blur

Without Motion Blur	With Motion Blur

Setup

Dependencies:

• CMake (version 3.20 or higher recommended)
• OpenMP (for parallel processing support)
• C++ compiler with C++20 support

To build the project:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Usage

Render an image and save it as a PPM file:

./build/raytracer > generated_images/output.ppm

Acknowledgment

Based on the Ray Tracing in One Weekend book.