Ray Tracer

There are many ways of describing an object in 3d. STL's, Parasolids, Voxels, and point clouds are but a few of the ways. Once you have an object described, how can you view it realistically? That is the purpose of a ray tracer. Using C, we created a program that follows the path of thousands of rays, modeling reflection, roughness, color, and other aspects of light that allowed us to create realistic renders of 3d objects.