The following are some of the old test scenes for CS488/688. Students taking the course were expected to render these pictures for their ray tracing assignment. See also the current test scenes.
In the following, clicking on the thumbnail image brings up a larger version of that image. The title links you to documentation, some of which contains links to additional images.
A non-hierarchical test
scene for the ray tracer.
A simplified version
of this scene is also available.
Two more images, with a delicious background scene, that illustrate the difference of having and not having mirror reflections.
A test scene for the ray tracer.
A test scene for the ray tracer.
As rendered by Xiang He with the required background for A4.
Default Scene, raytraced.
``DNA'' Test Scene. Rendered with OpenGL using Gn (a Tcl-based object-oriented 3D scripting language used previously in this course).
``DNA2'' Test Scene. Rendered with OpenGL, also using Gn.