miniRT

This 42's curriculum project implements a basic ray tracer in C. Completely from scratch, the only library (functions) allowed where:

• minilibX, a very basic window manager
• open, close, read, write, printf, malloc, free, exit
• sin(), cos(), sqrt() and all other math library functions

It can run as an application or export to a bmp file called scene.bmp It renders on the CPU, featuring antialiasing and multithreaded rendering It supports the primitives:

• spheres
• planes
• cylinders
• squares
• triangles

Usage

Supports both macOS and Linux

make bonus
./miniRT ./rt/room.rt
./miniRT --save ./rt/room.rt

Renders

See doc/renders for more

Benchmarking how-to

This ray tracer can be used as a fun benchmarker.

1. Change number of cores in settings.h
2. Run make bonus
3. Run time ./miniRT rt/dragon.rt --save

Benchmarking results

MM:SS | <name> | <date>
01:01 | MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020, M1, Kernel Version 21.6.0 | 2022-11-22
00:34 | MacBook Pro 16-inch 2021, M1 Pro, Kernel Version 21.6.0 | 2022-11-22