https://github.com/pedryx/ray-tracer

Simple ray tracer which has been done as term project for NPGR004 course of MFF UK.
https://github.com/pedryx/ray-tracer

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Simple ray tracer which has been done as term project for NPGR004 course of MFF UK.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pedryx/ray-tracer
• Owner: pedryx
• Created: 2023-02-20T18:04:16.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-28T20:49:24.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-18T00:24:20.099Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: raytracer
• Language: C#
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• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Ray Tracer

Simple command line ray tracer.

Creates view into the scene.

## non-mandatory names arguments:

- config - specify path to non-default config file

- graph - specify path to non-default file with graph scene hierarchy

## config file

Default config file is config.xml. It is XML file where you can specify

how output file should look like.

All settings has to be contained in Config node:

    

    ...

    

You can specify name of the output file:

    demo.pfm

You can configure various settings:

    true

	true

	true

	5

	16

You can specify camera settings:

	

		

			600

			450

		

		

			0.6

			0.0

			-5.6

		

		

			0.0

			-0.03

			1.0

		

        

		40

	

You can specify scene settings which will be specified in following block:

    

    ...

    

### Scene settings

You can set color of the background:

    

        0.1

        0.2

        0.3

    

You can enable/disable clouds:

    true

You can specify light sources, they can be either ambient or point:

    

        

        

            

                1

                1

                1

            

        

        

        

            

                1

                1

                1

            

            

                -10

                8

                -6

            

        

        ...

    

You can specify materials:

    

        

            

            yellow

            

            0.1

            

            0.8

            

            0.2

            10

            

                1.0

                1.0

                0.2

            

            

            0.0

            

			0.5

			1.47

        

        ...

    

## graph file

Default graph file is scene.xml. It is XML file where you can specify

composition of scene elements.

It uses tree structure. Whole tree has to be wrapper in root node called

InnerNode:

    

    ...

    

There are two types of nodes inner and leaf. Root inner node is called InnerNode

other inner nodes are caled just Node. In (Inner)Node you can specify following

settings:

    

        

        ...

        

        Red

        

        ...

        

    

In Transformation section you can specify transformations which will be applied

to whole subtree. Transformation are applied in direction to the root, and from

last to first. Following transformations are supported:

    

    	Translate 2 0 10

        Scale 0.55

        RotateX -0.3

        RotateY -0.7

        RotateZ -0.4

    

The Nodes section can contains any number of nodes (either Leaf or Node). In

Leaf node you can specify following settings:

    

        

        ...

        

    

In the Shapes section, you can specify shapes, only spheres and planes are

currently supported:

    

        

            

            yellow

            

                0

                0

                0

            

            1

        

        

            red

            

                0

                -1.5

                0

            

            

                0

                1

                0

            

        

    ...

    

## example usage:

    ./RayTracer.exe --config: my_config.xml --graph: my_scene.xml