Raycaster examples

For my computer graphics class, we were expected to produce a basic raycaster, which took SVG-like commands and rendered a scene.
If you would like to learn more about the commands, check out the assignment page
It's not real-time, there is no hardware acceleration. Each of these images took 4-10 seconds to generate. The results are still pretty impressive

Above generated from this text file:

  png 2000 2000 bounces.png

  bounces 12
  color 2 2 2
  sun 0 1 1.2

  shininess 1
  sphere -2 0 -1 2
  shininess 0.6
  color 0.3 0.5 0.4
  sphere 0.8 0 -1 0.8

  shininess 0
  color 0.5 0.4 0.3
  sphere 0 -0.2 -.3 .1
  

Above generated from this text file:

  png 1920 1080 planets.png


  sphere 0 0 -1 0.3

  color 1 0.5 0
  shininess 0.5
  sphere 0.6 0 -1 .3

  color 0 1 1
  shininess 1 
  sphere -0.6 .3 -1 .3

  color 1 1 1
  sun 0 -1 1
  color 0 1 0
  sun 0 1 0
  

Above generated from this text file:

  png 2000 2000 soccer-hd.png

  shininess 0.5
  color 0.6 0.6 0.5
  plane 0 1 0 0.5

  shininess 0
  color 0.5 0.6 0.3
  plane 1 2 0.1 4
  color 0.3 0.5 0.6
  plane -1 2 0.1 4

  shininess 0.4
  color 1 1 1
  sphere 0 0 -1 0.5

  sun 1 1 1
  

Above generated from this text file:

  png 3600 2600 overlap.png

  bounces 7

  color 1 0 0
  shininess 0.5
  sphere -0.2 0 -1 0.3

  shininess 0.8
  color 1 1 1
  sphere 0 -0.1 -.5 0.1

  shininess 0.25

  color 0 1 0
  sphere -.1 -.2 -1.2 0.5
  color 0 0 1
  sphere -.7 -.8 -3 0.3

  shininess 0.2
  color 0.6 0 1
  plane 2 0 1 3

  shininess 0.6
  color 0 1 0
  plane 1 0 -1 -3


  color 1 1 1
  sun 0.5 0.5 1
  

Above generated from this text file:

  png 2000 2000 suns-hd.png

  color 1 0 1
  sun 0 2 1
  color 0 1 1
  sun .2 1 1
  color 0.4 0.3 0.4
  plane 0 1 0 1
  plane 0.8 0.6 0 1

  color 1 1 1
  sphere 0 .5 -1 0.2
  shininess 0.2
  color 0.5 1 0.5
  sphere -.3 0 -1.4 0.3
  color 1 0 1
  sphere 0 -2 -2.5 1.3