Real-time Ray Tracing

My final project submitted at the University of East Anglia.

The goal of this project was to research and implement a real-time ray tracer on consumer-level hardware.

This repository includes all the code and a 53 page technical report.

Notable features:

• Shadows, Reflections and Refractions
• Schlick's approximation
• Supersampling and stochastic anti-aliasing
• Surface Area Heuristic KD-Tree
• Diffuse, Specular and Bump Mapping
• .OBJ model support
• GPU Parallel Processing using CUDA

Controls

Camera controls

• W - forward
• S - backward
• A - left
• D - right

Effects toggle (numpad)

• 1 - shadows
• 2 - reflections
• 3 - refractions
• 4 - no anti-aliasing
• 5 - supersampling
• 6 - stochastic sampling

Scene Files

Scene files can be loaded in by specifying the file name in raytracer/scene_files/scene_layout/scene.txt

A guide to the formatting of the scene files can be found in raytracer/scene_files/scene_layout/guide.txt

Installation

This project requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, CUDA 7.5 and OpenGL 3.5 support:

Download links:

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48145

CUDA 7.5 https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads