Project 3: Dominik Kau

[dominikkau]

• Repo Link
• Core Features:
  • Ideal diffuse shader
  • Ideal and roughness specular shader
  • Toggable tream compaction using thrust
  • Toggable material sorting
  • Toggable anti-aliasing
• Additional Features:
  • 4️⃣ gltf arbitrary mesh loading with bounding box culling
  • 2️⃣ Refraction shader
  • 2️⃣ Toggable depth-of-field
  • ❔ Texture mapping (only base-color texture implemented, but combined with arbitrary mesh loading)
  • ❔ Stratified sampling for initial ray casting, but not entirely sure if that is what was meant here
• Fancy README
• Feedback: Very steep learning curve even though I had some previous knowledge of ray tracing. Getting to understand the existing code base was time intensive and sometimes puzzling. One of reasons I ran out of time during the semester. Overall, I had a ton of fun implementing these features though and I would have loved to implement a BVH and proper arbitrary texture mapping too, but there was simply no time left... Maybe I'll have time in the future to extend this project.