The Stanford Bunny is a graphics benchmark of sorts. It was a high-resolution scan that the imaging lab there did of a ceramic bunny, and the triangulation is a popular model to test systems on.

It contains a little under 70,000 triangles which makes brute-force ray tracing intractable. I mentioned octtrees earlier, and so having built octtrees into my ray tracer, I was able to render the Stanford Bunny in about 40 minutes on one core. Granted, that’s with only 1-pass anti-aliasing, but I feel pretty good about this. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to implement Gouraud shading (or normal interpolation for that matter), but as soon as I do, it will look a lot less blocky.

[caption id=”attachment_535” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”The Stanford Bunny rendered with my ray tracer.”][/caption]