Raytracing in D

A (very) simple raytracer written in the D programming language.

Features

• Smooth shadows
• Anti-aliasing

Prerequisites

• DMD D compiler

How to run

• Open a terminal in the source directory.
• Execute rdmd main.d

After about 25" the image below will appear.

Internals

The raytracer builds a Bounding Volume Hierarchy from the objects in the scene. This helps a lot since when testing for ray interesctions, not all objects have to checked. The BVH Tree is data structure is defined and created in BVH.d.

License

MIT