Abstract

Computer generation of photorealistic images has been the target of computer graphics designers almost since the birth of the computer. Of all methods tried, Ray tracing has proven to be the best at generating computer images that exhibit all the optical features found in a real life photograph. Ray tracing is the subject matter of this thesis. We discuss the various issues involved in the design of a ray tracing system that will model and render complex scenes and we implement such a ray tracing system.