Rendering system for physically realistic 3D images, created in Qt Creator using C++ with OpenGL. Created for Computer Graphics with Dr. Norm Badler at the University of Pennsylvania. Individual project over three months (finished December 2014).

• Direct and Monte Carlo Indirect Illumination (renders using each one or both)
• OBJ loader and scene graph (GUI created with Qt Creator and OpenGL)
• Ray-primitive intersection: cube, sphere, cylinder, and mesh (triangular plane) intersection functionality
• Point lights and/or area lights with soft shadows
• Reflective, translucent/refractive, specular, and diffuse materials (each of whose attributes may be adjusted in the configuration file)
• Caustics
• Color bleeding
• Anti-aliasing
• Parallel processing techniques (multi-threading with OpenMP) used to improve performance
• Takes keyboard input to rotate/translate the camera and to output a .BMP file of the raytraced scene