miniRT

miniRT is a simple ray tracer. Using a file containing information about a "scene", it renders an image.

This scene file contains:

• A camera that points to a place in 3D space
• An ambient light source for the entire space
• One or more lights (spots) anywhere in the space, each light has its own color and intensity
• Zero or more objects (planes, cylinders and/or spheres) that contain their own characteristics, such as: color, coordinate, size and direction.

Based on the information provided by the scene file, miniRT uses the raytracing technique to create an image.

The miniRT is capable of:

Manage the light:

• Spot brightness
• Hard shadows
• Ambiance lighting
• Diffuse and specular lightning (phong effect)
• Multiple lights colors and intensity

Manage objects:

• Color
• Size
• intersection
• Direction

Before compiling the program, make sure you have installed on your computer:

• make
• g++ (GNU Compiler Collection) or clang
• the following libraries: xorg libxext-dev zlib1g-dev libbsd-dev

If you are on Debian or derivatives, you can install these libraries as the command apt:
sudo apt-get install xorg libxext-dev zlib1g-dev libbsd-dev

1. Download this repository: git clone https://github.com/phrxn/miniRT.git

2. After downloading, enter the project folder cd miniRT

3. Run make to compile the project

4. After running make, an executables will be created: miniRT

After the project compiles, the miniRT executable will be created. It expects a scene file (.rt) as a parameter, inside the scenes directory you can find several scenes to run.

5. Run: ./miniRT file.rt

!!️ The raytracing process is time-consuming, so the image may take a while to process since this project does NOT use GPU, but CPU to perform image calculations!

• Implement a "loading" to display how much of the image has been processed
• Use GPU instead of CPU to do the calculations