go-raytrace is a simple ray tracing engine using OpenGL 4.6 written in Go. It was created as a study project for the computer science course at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
- supported geometry: spheres and axes-aligned boxes
- lambertian, reflective and transparent materials
- dynamic camera with depth of field effect
- loading scene data from JSON and random scene generation
- Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley: a great book on the basics of raytracing that drove the project from the very start
- Awesome tutorial by Kai Burjack which helped to rewrite the original C++ engine for OpenGL (and also served as a partial inspiration for the scene displayed above)
- Go 1.6+
- OpenGL 4.6 Core
- additional dependencies for the go-gl/glfw package
After cloning the repository and installing all dependencies just navigate to the root folder of the repo and run go build. Help on how to use the app can be found in controls.txt file and via ./go-raytrace -help.
The application has been tested only on Linux Mint, so any feedback on compatability is appreciated.