My First Ray Tracer

Quite tangential to everything else I’ve been doing recently, I wrote my first ray tracer in C++ today. It can render arbitrary triangle meshes defined in SMF format. Next weekend I’ll teach myself shading.

Ray Tracer

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One Response to “My First Ray Tracer”

  1. Kevin
    April 14th, 2008

    Great commentary, Dan. :P What’s the reason behind ray tracing and shaders?

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