A basic Ray Tracer that exploits numpy arrays and functions to work fast

Python-Fast-Raytracer

A basic Ray Tracer that exploits numpy arrays and functions to work fast. The code is written keeping as much readability as possible.

• [x] Refraction
• [x] Thin film interference
• [x] Textures
• [x] Monte Carlo Ray Tracing with importance sampling
• [ ] Relativistic optical effects

Installation

Just clone or download this repo. You’ll need to install two packages.

1. Pillow is a fork of the PIL package. It provides the Image module for this application.
   to install it run the following.

pip install pillow

2. Numpy is a scientific package that helps with mathematical functions.

pip install numpy

Examples

See the examples to see how to render the following images:

python example1.py

python example2.py

 

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