As of this past week, JTracer is complete as it pertains to the course requirements. I compiled my test renders into a single video here to show the evolution as the project grew from 400 lines of C++ code in the first incarnation to just over 3000 8 weeks later. I enjoyed going back through the images as I can recall nearly every issue the image highlights and the eventual fix employed.
Writing a ray tracer is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. However I never had right starting place or motivation for this kind of project. Ultimately I’m very happy for the experience of doing this as a class and I learned a lot about the structure of code and the process of digesting research papers and the associated mathematics into code.
Next term I’ve got class of computer vision, but I hope to begin a new jtracer as well... good times!
