CS5611 Reading List: Week 3

Textbook Material
Read the following materials
  • Read Section 8.3 to Section 8.6 of our text.
  • The ray tracing slides RayTracing.pdf.
  • The next topic will be radiosity. Slides Radiosity.pdf will be available soon.

Do the following
    Use POV-Ray to ray trace an image of your choice. Try to include spheres, cones, cylinders, tori, boxes, and planes in your scene, and use the ambient, diffuse, phong, phong_size, reflection, refraction, and IOR in some of your object. No, I won't grade your work; however, I expect you to send your image and scene files to me for comments to make sure you have learned the use and meaning of various parameters in ray tracing.