Gene Au-yeung, Daniel Quach, Jeffrey Su, Albert Wang, Jessica Wang, David Woo

 Rendering technique: 3D scene to 2D image  Simulates physics of light propagation (rays).  Primary ray: from perspective of viewer (shot for every pixel on the screen)  Algorithm determines which object is hit first on ray’s path

 At that hitpoint, a shader program is invoked.  To simulate a mirror reflection, the shader program can cast another ray

 Shadow rays depend if the pixel is lit or in shadow  A pixel is lit if a ray can be shot to the light source without obstruction  If blocked, the pixel is in shadow

 for each row  for each column ▪ Construct ray from camera through pixel (row, column) ▪ Find first shape hit by ray ▪ If (shape)  Calculate color at intersection point ▪ Else  Calculate background color ▪ Draw color

 Color Calculation  for each light source ▪ if light is visible from this point ▪ Add light source’s contribution  Add contribution due to reflected ray  Add contribution due to refracted ray

 Currently supports: spheres, reflections, shadows, diffuse lighting  Implement:  Refraction (Gene)  Planes (David)  Triangles (Albert)  Textures (Jessica)  Anti-Aliasing (Gene, Daniel)  Parallelization:  Initial investigation: Jeffrey  Whoever finishes their feature help Jeffrey

 The bulk of ray tracer’s work lies in the recursive steps of reflecting each ray  However, we cannot parallelize each reflection since the second reflection cannot be completed until the first is done Must wait for this ray to trace Before starting the 2 nd or 3rd

 Instead, we can parallelize the primary rays traced from the camera to the viewport  Divide viewport into 8 columns, have one thread calculating primary rays in each column  No data dependency, since each pixel’s color can be found independently of other pixels

 With addition of anti-aliasing, a potential data dependency can occur as each primary ray requires information about the results of surrounding rays  Our potential solution is to re-check for edges at the boundaries between the 8 columns, then only apply anti-aliasing to pixels which are an edge

 Currently: framework and repository ready  Week 7:  Implement raytracing features  Investigate parallelism using baseline code  Week 8:  Parallelize finished raytracer  Week 9:  Conduct performance tests between sequential and parallelized versions

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