miniray

This project is my own implementation of a raytracer based on the famous book "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" by Peter Shirley, Trevor David Black, and Steve Hollasch. I've included multi-threading support to speed up the render process.

https://raytracing.github.io/

This is what you can expect from running this:

Prerequisites

• g++ compiler with C++14 support
• Linux operating system

Compilation

To compile the project, clone this repository and run the make command in the project's root directory:

git clone https://github.com/calderov/miniray.git
cd miniray
make

This will create the miniray executable and ensure the render directory exists for output files.

Running the Project

After compilation, run the raytracer with:

./miniray

The program will render the scene and save the output image(s) as BMP files in the render/ directory. By default, it renders a single frame (frame0.bmp).

Additional Notes

• The project uses multi-threading for rendering, utilizing all available CPU cores.
• Different scenes can be rendered by modifying the include statement in src/main.cpp (e.g., change #include "scene01.h" to #include "scene02.h").
• For debugging, use make debug to compile with debug flags.