Ray tracing Development

Built a Monte Carlo ray tracer in C++ based on the tutorials RaytracingInAWeekend, RaytracingTheNextWeek, and RaytracingTheRestOfYourLife.

Raytracer demo — early example scene - 4000 samples

Raytracer multiple lights demo — later example scene with many lights - 1000 samples

In addition to the base functionality from the tutorials, I implemented multi-core tile based rendering, instanced triangle mesh structures with custom UV maps, nested Bounding Volume Hierarchies, and a custom file format to import meshes into the raytracer from Blender.
I also added support for Gaussian Splats as native objects so they support reflections, shadows, and relighting.

Further work is being done on a real-time ray tracer in C++ and Slang using Vulkan.