Project 5: Grace Gilbert

[gracelgilbert]

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• Features
  • DirectX Raytracing CPU setup
  • Ray generation
  • Shadows and reflections
  • Multiple procedural sphere intersection
  • Volumetric Metaball intersection
  • Phong lighting, Schlick's approximation for Fresnel reflection
  • Distance falloff
  • Performance analysis
• I feel like I had a very high level understanding of how the DirectX pipeline worked, but had trouble figuring out where and how all of that happens in the code. I found myself trying out different values in certain functions rather than actually understanding what the changes I was making actually were doing. I think a little more background on the implementation details would be helpful to make the CPU setup part of the project more approachable.