tricaster

A multi-threaded raytracer written in Go.

Features

• Uses backward raytracing
• Phong shading
• Toggleable shadows
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Procedural texture pipeline
• Anti-aliasing
• Can be configured to run on any number of threads
• Scenes can be loaded from YAML

Planned features

• Allow modifying background color
• Allow use of multiple lights
• Allow shadow support for transparent objects
• Add configurable shadow strength
• Add support for multiple types of lights
• Allow scene lighting with sphere-projected images
• Add Constructive Solid Geometry