Monday, February 1, 2016

Motion blur in a ray tracer

I implemented the first change in my ray tracer for my next mini-book.    I had forgotten how easy motion blur is to add to a ray tracer.   For linear motion anyway.    The ray gets a time it exists at, the camera generates a ray at a random time, and the object intersection takes a time in.

For a sphere whose center moves linearly, the change is just to make the center a function of time:





To test it I had the diffuse spheres have a random vertical motion.   This was a rare time my code worked on first run (after many typos on the way to compilation).


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