packetize Phong shader new scons config options: simd=(yes|no) - allow/suppress explicit SSE force_flags=(yes|no) - force use of specified flags instead of autodetected profile=(yes|no) - enable gcc's profiling (-pg option) check for pthread.h header, don't try to build without it add fourth Vector3 component for better memory aligning rename Vector3 to Vector partialy SSE-ize Vector class (only fully vertical operations) build static lib and python module in distinctive directories to avoid collision of library file names on some platforms

rename Python module from 'raytracer' to 'pyrit' improve Python binding: - new objects: Container, Octree, KdTree, Shape, Pixmap, Sampler, DefaultSampler - all shapes are now subclasses of Shape - clean, remove redundant Getattr's - Raytracer render method now just wraps C++ method without doing any additional work adjust all demos for changes in Python binding, remove PIL dependency add demo_PIL.py as a example of pyrit + PIL usage render_nff.py now either loads file given as a argument or reads input from stdin otherwise fix bug in pixmap float to char conversion

use SSE for float to char image buffer conversion

merge pixmap handling from sampler, material.h and ccdemos's image module to new Pixmap class add check for PNG library, allow writing PNG file from a Pixmap simplify demos using new methods from Sampler and Pixmap

Sphere, Box - RayPacket intersection replace 5x oversampling with 4x uniform oversampling

BBox - RayPacket intersection clean up

implement triangle packet intersection

prepare kd-tree traversal for packet tracing (4 rays at once) RayPacket and VectorPacket structures for packet tracing remove some redundant const's

vectorize makeRayPacket() using SSE intrinsics

prepare structures for packet tracing (it's already slightly faster, even without any explicit parallelization) supply missing virtual destructors