Project Description

For the lecture “Computer Graphics” my task was to implement a ray-tracer. The basic framework to start with was Nori. During the semester we added basic functionality like light, different surfaces and materials. At the end, we had to implement additional self-defined features and render a picture to a given theme: Once upon a time.

For the final picture I rendered a fairy tale billiard in which each different pair of balls are representing a different fairy tale.

The ray-tracer currently contains following features:

• Integrators
  • Average Visibility Integrator
  • Direct Illumination Integrator
  • Path Tracing
• Light Sampling
  • Spotlight
  • Shape Area Light
  • Photon Mapping
  • Multiple Importance Sampling
  • Environment Map Emitter
• Materials
  • BRDF Sampling
  • Dielectric BSDF
  • Texture (images, mirror, bump maps, MIP map)
• Motion Blur