Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse
Information Home About Software Ancient Ball Assembly Betelgeuse Blue Logic Demos Panorama Shader Converter WinAPI Wrapper Goodies Direct3D Caps Music Photos Links	Betelgeuse Named after the red supergiant 427 light years away, Betelgeuse is a simple software raytracer. It features: Input format similar to POV-Ray. Several types of geometry, such as triangle, sphere, cone, etc. Boolean operations for closed geometric objects (union, difference, intersection). Three light models - point light, spot light and directional light. Dynamically build BSP tree of objects used during ray intersections. Miscellaneous ways to define objects' texture coordinates. Parallel raytracing on computers connected via network. Anti-aliasing of final images. Download Betelgeuse with examples (820KB) Betelgeuse was actually part of my Master's Thesis. The Thesis also contains an explanation on how a raytracer works and describes the architecture of Betelgeuse. It's written in Polish. Download my Thesis in Polish (1MB)	Screenshots

Betelgeuse

Named after the red supergiant 427 light years away, Betelgeuse is a simple software raytracer. It features:

Input format similar to POV-Ray.
Several types of geometry, such as triangle, sphere, cone, etc.
Boolean operations for closed geometric objects (union, difference, intersection).
Three light models - point light, spot light and directional light.
Dynamically build BSP tree of objects used during ray intersections.
Miscellaneous ways to define objects' texture coordinates.
Parallel raytracing on computers connected via network.
Anti-aliasing of final images.

Download Betelgeuse with examples (820KB)

Betelgeuse was actually part of my Master's Thesis. The Thesis also contains an explanation on how a raytracer works and describes the architecture of Betelgeuse. It's written in Polish.

Download my Thesis in Polish (1MB)

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