This project started out as an attempt at implementing the code of the Ray Tracing in One Weekend book series with optimization and styling changes where I would see fit.
Although such goal has been reached (at least for the first book), I have decided to continue maintaining and expanding the codebase, with the final objective being building a usable gpu ray tracing engine.
At the present time I have come up with a few goals for this project, some of them for the near future others for the long term:
- Switching to CMake as build system, and clang-format as code formatter
- Switching to GLM as graphics math library
- Implementing scene serialization (saving scenes)
- Changing the structure of materials and objects
- Packaging all the materials and objects into their own respective classes without inheritance for better memory layout
- Reading texture and triangle mesh files instead of raw materials and objects
- Moving the rendering pipeline onto the GPU using Vulkan/DirectX