15-463 Project 3: Ray Tracing
Due April 11, 1996 (before midnight)

For this assignment, you will be extending your ray caster into a ray tracer. The details of the assignment are currently available in Acrobat and PostScript formats.


Provided software

Scene reader
Documentation on the scene format is available in Acrobat and PostScript formats. You might also like to read to documentation for our scene reader software.

Sample ray caster
We've made a sample solution for P2 available. You can find the source code in .../15-463/pub/src/p2/raycast/.

TIFF input/output
We've provided you with routines for doing input/output to TIFF files. Look on the software page for documentation.


21 March 1996
garland@cs.cmu.edu