Ray-Tracer

A basic Ray tracer made from Peter Shirley's Ray tracing in one weekend series

In order to compile the project, C++17 or greater must be installed, along with the GNU compiler

Cloning and Running Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/ahmadadil950/RayTracer.git

Go to the project directory

  cd ray

Run program using GNU compiler

  g++ ray.cpp -o ray -fopenacc -O3 -fopt-info-optimized-omp -march=native

Finally in order to render the image, output the file stream to a ppm image format

  ./ray > "filename".ppm

Then to view image, use online ppm file viewer https://www.cs.rhodes.edu/welshc/COMP141_F16/ppmReader.html

Downloading binary to run project

On the release tab download the ray binary

Once downloaded, move binary to a folder location of your choice and open the command line of your choice within that location

Within the command line run

./ray > "filname.ppm" 

to convert the file to a ppm image

The image should be rendered in the location where the binary is located and to view it you can use https://www.cs.rhodes.edu/welshc/COMP141_F16/ppmReader.html