A little ray-tracer written for CS184 Spring '01.

by Jeffrey Heer - cs184-bj - (jheer@hkn.eecs)
and Chetan Nandakumar - cs184-cp - (chetan@cory.eecs)


Deliverables 2 - 5/4/01

In this installment we added specular lighting, more geometric primitives, reflection, and refraction. All images on this page are in jpeg format for the web. Follow links or click the images for the original TIFFs.

The Platonic Crystal Uses planes and polygons to model a dodecahedron suspended in a room with light sources on the ceiling. The dodecahedron has a cool crystal looking appearance achieved using mirrored surfaces.
Download the original TIFF image (1024x768): platonic_crystal.tif.



Friends A parabaloid peeks out of the floor while a sphere looks on, dimly reflecting an image of the room around it.
Download the original TIFF image (1024x768): friends.tif.



Dancing with Myself A lonely dodecahedron reflected by a large mirror.
Download the original TIFF image (1024x768): dodshadow.tif.



Weird A glass sphere floats in front of a large cylinder. Flanked on both sides by parabaloids.
Download the original TIFF image (1024x768): weird.tif.



Reflection Nice reflection effects off of a sphere.
Download the original TIFF image (1024x768): refsphere.tif.



Gallery of geometric primitives
Sphere
 Plane
 Polygons
Cone
 Cylinder
 Paraboloid




You can download the source, too. You will need the C++ standard template library (STL) and libtiff installed on your computer.

RENDERboy source : rboy.src.tar.gz


by chetan and jheer, 2001