Raytracer Class Reference

Base class for raytracers, containinng basic functionality needed by the sub classes. More...

#include <raytracer.h>

Inherited by PathTracer, and WhittedTracer.

Inheritance diagram for Raytracer:

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Public Member Functions
	Raytracer (Scene *scene, Image *img)
	Creates a raytracer.
virtual	~Raytracer ()
	Destroys the raytracer and all the objects it contains.
void	computeImage ()
	Raytraces the scene by calling tracePixel for every pixel in the output image.
Protected Member Functions
virtual Color	trace (int x, int y)
	Compute the color of the pixel at (x,y) by raytracing.
Ray	getShadowRay (const Intersection &is, PointLight *light) const
	Sets up a shadow ray from an intersection point to a point light source.
Ray	getReflectedRay (const Intersection &is) const
	Helper function that computes the reflected view direction and sets up a ray with the correct parameters.
Ray	getTransmittedRay (const Intersection &is) const
	Helper function that computes the transmission direction and sets up a ray with the correct parameters.
Protected Attributes
Scene *	mScene
	Ptr to the scene.
Image *	mImage
	Ptr to the output image.
Camera *	mCamera
	Ptr to the camera used for rendering.

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Detailed Description

Base class for raytracers, containinng basic functionality needed by the sub classes.

When the function trace() is called, the image is raytraced by calling tracePixel for each pixel in the output image. tracePixel should be overridden in the sub-class to apply the desired raytracing algorithm (Whitted, pathtracing).

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• raytracer.h
• raytracer.cpp

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