kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) (11/15/88)
During the last week I put myself together and managed to pull out a second version of my ray tracer (the old one was under the subject: "Another simple ray tracer available"). Tis one includes most of the options described in R. Cook's paper on Distributed ray tracing. Capabilities of the ray tracer are: Gloss (blurred reflection) Translucency (blurred refraction) Penumbras (area light sources) Motion Blur Phong illumination model with one light source Spheres and squares Field of view and arbitrary position of the camera The ray tracer has been tested on a SUN 3 and SUN 4. I have it available under anonymous ftp on life.pawl.rpi.edu (128.113.10.2) in the directory pub/ray under the name ray.2.0.shar. There are some older version there if you want to take a look at them. If you can't ftp there send me mail and I'll send you a copy. I also have a version for the AT&T Pixel Machine (for the few that have access to one!). No speed improvements have been made yet, but I hope I will have Goldsmith's algorithm running on it soon. I know that my file format is not standard, but people can try to write their own routine to read the file. It's pretty easy. Hope you have fun! George Kyriazis kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu kyriazis@ss0.cicg.rpi.edu ------------------------------