More Features

This is my 2nd Ray Tracer, this time written in C++. I wanted to expand on my first Ray Tracer, which I did essentially blind, learning the fundamentals.

I added features like:

• Skybox Lighting
• Stochastic Sampling
• Depth of Field
• Multithreading
• Outputting to PNG files
• Planes, Cones, and Unions

Optimization

I dropped the render time for a 4K image from 12 hours to 1 hour after implementing multi-threading with OpenMP.

I followed Ray Tracing in One Weekend - The Book Series while building this project for guidance on features. They’re a great learning resource.