Whitted Style Raytracer

• Implemented features:
• Basic lighting with hard and soft shadows
• Reflection and Refraction
• Sphere and ellipsoid rendering

Summary:
For an 8-week period I had to develop a whitted style raytracer. It had certain requirements like shadows and reflection that affected my final grade. I managed to implement basic lighting with both hard and soft shadows, reflections, refractions, sphere rendering and ellipsoid rendering.
My main issue while making this is that I lacked some of the fundamental math understanding needed to make smooth progress and was still learning C++. While I could convert most math to code, I had some issues with more complex formulas, both in understanding them and implementing them, since I had never interacted with that type of math before.

A showcase scene I made using matte spheres, increasingly more reflective spheres and refractive spheres (glass) A sphere flake used to showcase and test reflective spheres A reflective ellipsoid