Coding Adventure: Ray Tracing

I tried creating a custom ray/path tracing renderer. Featuring: maths, shaders, and cats! This project was written in C# and HLSL, and uses the Unity game engine. Support my work (and get early access to new videos and source code) on Patreon or Nebula * Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague * Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/sebastianlague Source Code: * GitHub: https://github.com/SebLague/Ray-Tracing/tree/Episode01 Credits and References: * https://raytracing.github.io * https://blog.demofox.org/2020/05/25/casual-shadertoy-path-tracing-1-basic-camera-diffuse-emissive/ * Music: https://github.com/SebLague/Misc-Project-Info/blob/main/Coding-Adventures/Ray-Tracing.txt Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:08 Cameras and Rays 3:30 The Pixel Shader 5:02 Drawing a Sphere 6:59 Multiple Spheres, and Colour! 8:21 Two Types of Reflections 9:04 Experimenting with Randomness 11:14 Random Hemisphere Directions 14:11 The Trace Function 16:35 Testing Lights 17:55 Chair Thief 18:23 Progressive Rendering 19:54 A Simple Sky 20:49 Lambert’s Cosine Law 22:47 Cosine Weighted Rays 22:36 Triangles 24:52 Some Tests 27:14 Specular Reflections 29:59 Tomatoes and Glossiness 31:57 Blur and Anti-Aliasing 34:42 Depth of Field 37:14 The End