MINIRT

❯ Raytracing renderer written in C.

Overview

miniRT is a simple raytracing renderer written in C. The project is designed to render 3D scenes using the raytracing algorithm. The project is built with the C programming language and is designed to run on Unix-based systems.

Features

• Many geometric objects: spheres, planes, cubes, triangles, and cylinders.
• Textures such as Metal, Glass, Matte and Light.
• Texture mapping
• Anti-aliasing
• Depth of field
• Soft shadows
• Optimized rendering using a BVH tree

Getting Started

Installation

Build the project from source:

1. Clone the miniRT repository:

❯ git clone https://github.com/ael-mank/miniRT

2. Navigate to the project directory:

❯ cd miniRT

3. Compile the project using the Makefile:

❯ make

Usage

To run the project, execute the following command:

❯ ./miniRT [scene.rt]

Resources and References

• Ray Tracing in One Weekend book series by Peter Shirley.

• Scratcapixel website.

• Aurelien Brabant blog post about the minilibx.