Raytracing Renderer

Raytracing is a strategy to determine the color of each pixel in an image depicting a 3D scene. For each pixel, a ray is shot from the camera position towards the given point in the scene to find what object is represented by that pixel. More rays are traced from that point to any light sources in the scene, and the color at the point is derived by evaluating the properties of the represented object (such as albedo color, roughness, reflectivity, etc.) and the properties of the light sources.

The below images were generated with the raytracing renderer I wrote in C# for my Image Synthesis class.

(The source textures and normal maps used are not my own)