We are in a transition period, where ray tracing and rasterization coexist. Typical real-time rendering pipelines still use rasterization (often with deferred shading) for primary visibility and then trace rays for shadows, reflections or global illumination. Though, we are getting to the point where one can seriously…
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Part 1 of this series about my toy renderer covers the most fundamental design decisions. Over the years, I have written many renderers and for a long time their complexity kept growing. This time, I took the opposite route. I wanted to maximize the fraction of code that implements crucial functionality rather than…