Raytracing algorithm

Written on December 3rd , 2013 by admin

The image above is the rendered output of a raytracing program developed during my M.Sc. The algorithm comprehends two types of shapes, sphere and axis aligned bounding box (AABB) and the following optical effects:

• diffuse reflection
• specular reflection
• ambient reflection
• ambient light
• multiple point lights shadow

The program was developed using C++, OpenGL and freeglut.