I've been working on my ray racer recently, and I've changed it in a few ways:

- It now supports multicore rendering

- It can parse external text files and import scenes

- It can handle soft shadows

- It can handle textures

Here are a few pics I though I'd share:

http://imgur.com/a/sDGaz

To do: It would be nice to add the ability to render via path tracing so that I can add caustics, etc... but I haven't really found a good explanation of exactly how to do this. I understand that rather than spawning recursive reflection/refraction rays at each hitpoint, you spawn a single probabilstic ray, but I'm still a bit hazy on how to actually determine the final pixel color.

Thanks for looking

You ray tracer is for use with Directx?

How long does it take to render one of those images?

Updated it to do path tracing too, looks decent!

http://imgur.com/a/q6LtF