Realtime Raytracing

An experiment with C++, SDL2 and OpenMP-based realtime raytracing on the CPU.

• Move a sphere using either the arrow keys or w, a, s, d.
• Switch to the next sphere with space or tab.
• Toggle fullscreen with f or f11.
• Quit with q or esc.
• You can also move the current sphere with a joystick, then press a key to select the next one.

Requirements

• SDL2 (sdl2 and optionally sdl2_image, sdl2_mixer, sdl2_ttf, sdl2_net and sdl2_sound)
• OpenMP (libomp)
• CMake (cmake)
• GNU Make (make)

Screenshot

Building

make

Running

make run

Tested on Arch Linux and macOS.

The spheres can be moved around with a joystick / joypad.

Written with the Orbiton editor.

General info

• Version: 0.1.0
• Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>
• License: MIT