Photorealistic Rendering Engine

Features

• Whitted-style Ray Tracing

• Monte Carlo Path Tracing (based on smallpt)

• Next Event Estimation (NEE)

• Glossy Material based on Cook Torrance Model

• Anti-biasing based on SSAA

• Hardware Acceleration based on OPENMP

• Texture Mapping

• Normal Interpolation

• Field Depth

• AABB Bounding Box

• BSP Tree

• Solve Ray-surface Intersection using Newton’s Method (beta)

• CUDA Acceleration (beta)

• .obj File Parser

Results

Japanese Gate

Field Depth

vase

Glossy Material

Acknowledgements

• This project is the final coursework for Foundations of Computer Graphics in Tsinghua University. Thank professor Hu ,TA Cao and TA Chen for their guidance.
• Monte Carlo Renderer based on smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (kevinbeason.com)
• .obj file parser from thisistherk/fast_obj: Fast C OBJ parser (github.com)
• .png file parser from lvandeve/lodepng: PNG encoder and decoder in C and C++. (github.com)