Ray Casting

Circle Samples
50 Sampled Points 500 Sampled Points	These are gif images of randomly sampled points along a circle. Images were generated with the program circleSamples.cpp. It used the following class files... dot.cpp dot.h image.h image.cpp pixel.cpp pixel.h When the images were created each circle was located at the origin with a radius of 150 pixels.
Sphere Samples
500 Sampled Points 5000 Sampled Points	This is an example output from the program sphereSamples.cpp. Which uses... sphere.cpp sphere.h vector.c vector.h It is similar to the above put now we are dealing with 3D space. The images are a screenshot from an Inventor file, however, if you have CosmoPlayer installed you can view the VRML files spheres500.wrl (100K) spheres5000.wrl (1M)
Ray Casting
5000 Rays 50000 Rays	I had trouble with this section at first, but it turned out I was making a really stupid mistake (who would of thought it). The smaller sphere is randomly shooting rays out in any one direction. When a ray hits the big sphere a blue sphere is placed on the intersection point and a red sphere at the point where the ray originated. I used the program rayCast1.cpp. Which uses... sphere.cpp sphere.h vector.c vector.h If you have CosmoPlayer installed you can view the VRML files for both the 5000 and 50000 examples. raycast5000.wrl (119K) raycast50000.wrl (1.2M)
All code used to create these images can be downloaded here -> hw05.tar.gz