Last semester for Graphics, we each wrote raytracers, and this semester for Graphics II, we’ve been asked to add more advanced features to them.

I had written mine in Ruby for its short development cycle, but raytracers aren’t the most efficient renderers on the planet, and it would take hours to run on a single input on occasion. So, not wanting to deal with that this semester, I rewrote it in C++. Much faster. The most difficult input (same set) now takes about a minute. I finished it up today, and here are some pretty pictures to sate you:

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