Rings Ray Tracer 0.4

Rings Ray Tracer is a ray tracer written in 100% Java. The ray tracing engine is a piece of software written in Java that allows a user or another piece of Java software to produce realistic 3d images.

Here are some key features of "Rings Ray Tracer":

· UI Features Include:

· Look and feel options.
· Surface and Light info panels.
· Advanced hierarchical grouping of Surface objects.
· Render options dialog.
· Render timer and progress monitor.

· Rendering Features Include:

· Color rendering (ray tracing).
· Anti-aliasing (super sampling).
· Lighting model with support for ambient, directional ambient, and point light sources.
· Distance attenuation for point light sources.
· Two built in texture: stripe and image.
· Four built in shaders: diffuse, highlight, reflection, and refraction (not quite working).

· Surface/Modeling Features Include:

· Custom layered transformations (scale, rotate, translate, etc.).

· Supported Surface Types:

· Primitive Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Plane.
· Triangles and Triangle Meshes.
· Polynomial Surfaces.

· Supported Data Storage Methods:

· XML Encoding of Scene/Surface data.
· PPM, PIX and JPEG encoding of image data.
· RAW triangle data import.



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