miniRT

A raytracer implementation in C for rendering realistic 3D scenes, using Minilibx graphics library

scene executed using specular hilights (scenes/multi_object3.rt) scene executed without specular hilights (scenes/multi_object.rt)

⭐ About

This raytracer project is a simple but educational implementation designed to help you understand the core concepts of ray tracing and 3D rendering. It provides a basic framework for rendering 3D scenes with support lighting, reflections and shading techniques.

💫 Features

• 🚀 Ray intersection with spheres, cylinders and infinite planes
• 🌐 Ambient light with colors
• 💡 Diffused light with colors
• 🌓 Shadows
• ✨ Specular hilights using Blinn-Phong reflection model

scene with a cylinder and a plane with only ambient light (scenes/cylinder.rt) scene with a cylinder and a plane with ambient light, diffused lighting using one point light and shadows (scene/cylinder.rt)

👉 Getting Started

** this version has been tested with clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.1.0.2.5) and MacOS Ventura 13.5 **

To get started with the raytracer:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/rosamakinen/miniRT.git
   

2. Cd into the folder

   cd miniRT
   

3. Run the program You can run miniRT in two different modes, with or without the specular hilights

   To run the program

   make
   ./miniRT scenes/cylinder.rt

   To run the program with specular hilights run:

   make specular
   ./miniRT scenes/cylinder.rt

more scenes can be found from the scenes folder