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Ray Tracing in One Weekend

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Ray Tracing in One Weekend is his working-through of Peter Shirley's free book of the same name, in C++. The book builds a ray tracer from nothing, one feature at a time.

The final scene
The final scene

Progress through the book

The repository keeps an image for each stage, from a plain gradient to the final scene:

  • rays, a camera and a background;
  • spheres, surface normals and antialiasing;
  • diffuse, metal and glass materials;
  • a movable camera with field of view, zoom and depth of field.

The ray tracer writes PPM files, which his PPM to PNG converter turns into PNGs. CMake and a Makefile build it, and scripts render the scenes.

The series

See also

Pictures

Final Image
Final Image
First ppm
First ppm
The ray class
The ray class

In the knowledge graph

Ray Tracing in One Weekend and the 11 things it is linked to. Open any dot for its page, or explore it in the full graph.

PPM to PNG converter · work · links herePPM to PNG conver…Ray Tracing: The Next Week · work · Followed byRay Tracing: The …Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life · work · links hereRay Tracing: The …Make · skill · Built withMakeC++ · skill · Built withC++CMake · skill · Built withCMakeRay tracing · skill · Built withRay tracingSystems from scratch · theme · ThemesSystems from scra…Open source on GitHub · person, role or place · ContextOpen sourcePPM · dataset or file format · File formatsPPMRay tracing series · game or collection · Part ofRay tracing series Ray Tracingin One Week…
11 linked in the graph: 3 works4 skills1 theme1 person, role or place1 dataset or file format1 game or collection
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Jul 2024 · 1 commits

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Works 3
PPM to PNG converterRay Tracing: The Next WeekRay Tracing: The Rest of Your Life