A Simple Java raytracer written in Java 2D.
The code is based in Ray Tracing from the Ground Up book and in this excellent tutorial of flipcode. With some refactorings, corrections and ideas of my own.
- 09/05/2022 Updated project to Java 18
- 23/03/2014 Updated project to Java 8
- 29/12/2013 pic - Added compound objects and some default compound beveled objects. v1.7
- 27/12/2013 pic - Added transformations.
- 26/12/2013 pic - Box, Torus, Annulus and Open Cylinder primitives. Added ConvexPartSpheres.
- 24/11/2013 pic - Area lights, bounding box, triangle and rectangle geometric objects.
- 17/11/2013 Ambient occlusion.
- 16/11/2013 pic1 pic2 - Disk and hemisphere sample mapping and a Thin Lens Camera. v1.6
- 15/11/2013 pic1 pic2 - Created the billiard scene and added shadows. v1.5
- 15/11/2013 pic - Interlaced2 drawing order and specular reflections. v1.4
- 13/11/2013 Updated tracer to gradually trace the scene with given drawing order.
- 12/11/2013 Fixed Lambertian BRDF and changed demo light to point light.
- 11/11/2013 pic - Implemented ambient and directional light and matte material. v1.3
- 10/11/2013 pic - Implemented a Pin Hole configurable perspective camera. v1.2
- 09/11/2013 Refactored sampling classes and added Multi-Jittered sampling algorithm.
- 06/11/2013 pic - Added Random, Jittered, N-Hooks and Hammersley sampling algorithms. v1.1
- 04/11/2013 Added regular sampling for anti-aliasing.
- 03/11/2013 pic - Restarted from scratch with a new architecture. v1.0
- 16/06/2013 Added refraction.
- 10/06/2013 Refactored ray tracer classes.
- 02/06/2013 First version of ray tracer.