Ray tracers are a way to take scene and to generate a realistic rendering of that scene from a specific angle. This ray tracer project explores different modelling techniques such as L-System trees, fractal mountains, and constructive solid geometry amongst others.
The ray tracer uses lua as a scene descriptor. More information on the project as a whole can be found under this report.
- First install
premakethat can be found here. - To ease the setup, important shared libraries are already included under the
share/folder. To build these, run the premake binary (probablypremake5):
premake5 gmake
followed by running
make
- Then go under
ray-tracerto build the final ray tracer. Run
premake5 gmake
followed by running
make
The resulting binary Ray-Tracer is the ray tracer.
- Render a specific lua file scene by looking at examples under
Assets. More information on different lua commands and the scene descriptors can be found in the report.