A4: Ray Tracer
According to Larry Smith, blue is the favourite colour of successful people.
...time to give up for today.
Here's the final scene.
My extra features were radiosity and triangular spline patches.
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| October 23, @8:25PM |
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Deadline in two weeks. Time to start the ray tracing assignment.
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| October 24, @1:25AM |
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Sweet! The background is working. I went with a simple blue gradient. According to Larry Smith, blue is the favourite colour of successful people.
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| October 27, @3:54PM |
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Finally...sphere intersection works! There's no lights yet,
but the spheres from simple.gr look about right:
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| October 28, @0:15AM |
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Coded phong lighting, but this is all I get. The shadows
and highlights look like they're in the right place, but the rest is all wrong.
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| October 28, @2:13AM |
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Found the bug. I set epsilon to 1e-20. Too small...
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| October 29, 10:30PM |
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I just flunked Larry Smith's economics midterm.
I think I fixed the problem of the spheres rendering in the wrong order,
but now the ray tracer doesn't run at all.
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| October 29, @10:37PM |
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damn, still doesn't run.
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| October 29, @11:19PM |
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Don't have a clue what's borked.
Looks like I will have to resort to gdb.
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| October 29, @11:22AM |
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aarrg....gdb crashed. ...time to give up for today.
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| November 6, @5:22AM |
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Just sat in front of a monitor for 50 hours straight, and finally
have it all working. Here's the final scene. My extra features were radiosity and triangular spline patches.
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