A Monte Carlo Path Tracer
by Mark Luffel
for CS7490, Advanced Image Synthesis, Spring 2010
I implemented a randomized path tracer which computes global illumination effects, and has the following features:
- Lamertian, Mirror, and Glass materials
- Sphere, Cylinder, Plane primitives
- Depth-of-Field effects
- Area lights
- Mitchell-Netravali reconstruction filter
- Aperture stratification
- HDR environment map
The implementation is in Java, and uses the Processing libraries for interacting with the scene.
As part of this project I wrote some code to visualize light paths in a glass sphere. Here's a video of that:
