What's that?

Ok, I am writing a renderer program now and soon it will be avaliable here. What I am also going to do is to make the source partially available as a DelphiŠ library.

What the program capable of?

This program can visualize a 3D scene. It uses ray tracing for that. Among some more or less advanced features:

• Visual interface: you build the scene from combining and modifying standard primitives (i.e. spheres, boxes, cylinders, etc.)
• Texture trees: you can specify any combination of standard materials (bricks, wood, marble, water, etc.) for an object, or you can script your own textures.
• Back ray tracing: enchances the standard ray tracing algorithm to produce, specular-to-diffuse light interation, which is critical for such pictures as blinking of water.
• Distributed ray tracing: enhances the overall picture quality.

When will it appear?

That really depends on how fast I will find the most irretating bugs. The library itself will be appearing part-by-part starting now.

Pictures

Here are some pictures that I've done with it: