Bugs

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 * concurrent read? (concurrent write should not occur)

Future Plans

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 * kd-tree:

   - optimize structures

   - optimize construction: do not use bounding boxes of shapes, instead implement box-shape intersection

   - save/load

 * uniform grid, octree

 * textures (3D procedural, pixmaps later)

 * update Python binding: Camera, new classes

 * namespace

 * stochastic oversampling

 * absorbtion of refracted rays in dense materials (can be computed using shape distance and some 'absorbance' constant)

New Classes?

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container.h  -- Container

kdtree.h  -- KdTree

shapes.h  -- Triangle, Sphere

scene.h   -- Ray, Light, Camera, Scene

material.h -- Material, Texture

matrix.h  -- Matrix

vector.h  -- Vector3

reader.h  -- Reader, WavefrontReader

KdTree top

wf = new WavefrontReader()

wf.setContainer(top)

wf.setTransform(monkey_pos_matrix)

wf.read("monkey.obj")

// more transform&reads

destroy wf

top.optimize()  -- i.e. build tree

Scene scene -- container with shapes, a camera and lights

scene = new Scene()

scene.setTop(top) -- top object in hierarchy

scene.setCamera(new Camera(eye, u, v, p))

scene.addLight(new PointLight(pos, color))

rt.setScene(scene)

rt.render(w,h)

constructors have zero or one parameter by default -- the object to copy data from

more parameters -- the data (ray origin and direction)