Implement simple ray tracer without OpenGL in C++?

kdar · 2011-09-15 15:15:30

Can I implement simple ray tracer without having access to OpenGL libraries (by just writing everything in C/C++)?

I just want to calculate simple ray tracing on one or two objects in the box.

ijanos · 2011-09-15 15:23:06

Why couldn't you? You can use any toolkit with pixelputting capabilites or you can just write the image data to a file as raw image, I think GIMP will open it.

tavianator · 2011-09-16 15:55:46

Sure you can! POV-Ray is one, for example. I'm also writing one called Dimension, but in C/Python. Technically it supports drawing to the screen with OpenGL 'cause I'm too lazy to use the X API directly, but you can build it with --disable-gl.

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kdar · 2011-09-16 17:58:05

How do you use Python in yours?

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tavianator · 2011-09-16 19:15:54

It's a C API with a Python binding, written in Cython. The scene files are written as Python scripts, for example, this one.

kulpae · 2011-09-19 08:00:06

check this!
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Raytra … tion.shtml
and another articles in this tutorial

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