Lab B02 Supersampling and Recursive Ray Tracing

Making surfaces look real

Tasks

Lab B02 corresponds chapter 6.5 - 9 of Prof. Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend Tutorial

You can directly follow Prof Shirley's Tutorial.

You can directly follow Prof. Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend Tutorial (6.5 - 9.4 )at

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html#overviewraytracing.github.io

Focus

Introduce local illumination and secondary rays.

Learning objectives

By the end of this lab, students will be able to:

• Compute hard shadows using shadow rays

• Implement recursive diffuse light scattering

Key activities

• Add recursive diffuse rays

• Control recursion depth

Visual outcome

• Shaded objects

• Shadows