Ray-Tracing-Renderer

A simple C++ ray tracing renderer implementation following Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

Features

• Material support for diffuse, metal, and dielectric (glass) spheres.
• Depth of field and anti-aliasing via camera sampling.
• Recursive ray tracing for realistic light transport.

Build

Run from the project root:

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build --config Release

Run

Windows PowerShell

.\build\main.exe | Set-Content image.ppm -Encoding String

Linux/macOS

./build/main > image.ppm

Output

• The rendered image is saved as image.ppm.
• Open it with any image viewer that supports the PPM format.