Simple Ray Tracer

Simple Ray Tracer is a platform independepent 3D rendering engine using a technique known as Ray Tracing. The programming language is c++ and the code is object oriented, very simple, and intuitive. It provides a great foundation to learn ray tracing.

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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oid-3597740 Posted 2011-10-26

The code does not execute because the 'closest_distance' variable is not initialized.

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C++

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C++ 3D Rendering Software

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2001-12-09

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