CS593- Ray Tracing Algorithms(Fall 2011)

Week 1 Aug 31, 2011

This week I began by taking a Ray Tracer from the Codermind site and tweaking it so that I could use in in a php script. The php script is connects a front end php web interface to allow users to upload scene files to a server where it is processed by the altered Ray Tracer program from Codermind. The program uses the scene definition langage specificed in the example.

The basic elements used are

a light source

a sphere

materials

A link to the my interface is here

I began some work on my ray tracer. It using the same rudamentary elements. It only implements lambert shading, since my phong shading isn't quite working. It does not include a parser, so scenes are hard coded into it.