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Hallo, I am a new user here, so first I would like to say thank you for such a nice community. I have been browsing the forums for a few months now, reading and following a few discussions. I can’t contribute with much right now, as I am still learning, but like all others I have my share of questions. I am mostly interested in programming related to computer graphics and 3d animation, as it is from there I have my background (or what ever you would call it). I have started writing a small ray tracer as a learning project, but I am having problems with getting my head around everything. I bought the “Physically Based Rendering : From Theory to Implementation” book a few weeks ago and it turned out to be great in explaining the different parts of the ray tracer (so of the stuff was way to advanced for me), but I feel that it failed in putting all the parts together. What I am looking for is something like a source code for a basic ray tracer which I can look at to get a better picture of how the different parts of it work together. I know there is one at gameDev, but I find the code hard to follow, as it is almost without comments. So does anyone here know of a place where I can look at the source code for a basic ray tracer? The ones I have found turned out to be much to advanced, the simpler the better, is I just want to know the structure of it, everything else is explained fine in the book I have. Also, other articles or tutorials on basic ray tracing stuff are much welcomed. Sorry for the essay and thanks for your time Ole Kristian H.
