Code
- updateemit.cxx - Emittance updating sphere code
- quick.cxx - Code to create the sample scene.
- Compiles under IRIX and Linux
Program Screenshots
This is a slight update of the previous homework. A sphere is shown, with it's surface having a cosing emittance distribution. The distribution updates when the scene is rotated, plus the samples on the sphere move about.
Superimposed over the scene is a scene read in from a file. That scene was created with the supplied code. Why? Because I felt like it and because it was part of the assignment.
I spent a disproportionate amount of time just writing the code to produce the sample scene to read in. I guess I got distracted.
I also played around with BMRT. This was a really nice ray tracer. It says it has Photon Mapping and that's correct, but after several hours of trying to make a caustic through glass I come to the knoweledge that the photon mapping only works for specular REFLECTION and not TRANSMISSION. Doh. So my attempt failed. Here's the sad results.
