Raytrace 3D Rendering Engine

Overview

The raytrace engine project is a set of classes and methods that allows for a user to draw a range of spheres to a screen and then renderer them using the engines inbuilt camera. The spheres have multiple properties that the creator can manipulate including size, position and colour.

The aim of this was to gain a deeper understanding of how industry standard rendering software operates under the hood. To do this research was done on how the technique of raytracing is used to plot out the colour of each pixel on the screen, as well as the various vector formulas required to make it happen. While not a usable set of libraries for actually 3D rendering, the tool still functions well as a resource from which users can learn.

Media & Screenshots

Here is a video of the engine rendering a scene, this is done pixel by pixel in a scanline pattern.

The rendering engine as various stages of progression.

Download

If you would like to browse the project source code for yourself you can download the project from the link below.

Raytrace Engine Repository