Sphere Tracer

The following list show the progress I made during the development of the expresion sphere trace.

Click on the images to see the scene description file or have a look at the expression feature list.

November, 2001 Added solid noise or 'Hypertexture'.
September 25, 2001 Added CSG operation (union, intersection, difference), soft CSG (blobby objects). Added unary operations Taper and Twist. Also added Axis Aligned Bounding boxes and Fog.
August 8, 2001 Implemented a poly line shape and a poly bezier shape.
August 6, 2001 Created additional primitive shapes. Currently supported shapes (from left to right, top to bottom): Plane, Sphere, Disk, Torus, Box, Cone, Cylinder.
August 1, 2001 Implemented Tokenizer and Parsing of Shade hierarchy. Currently supported shades (from left to right, top to bottom): FlatShade, Material, Reflective, Texture, Turbulence, ShadeBlend.
Juli 2001 Implemented Shade hierarchy, using hard coded scene description. Implemented Light model (Material shade).
Juni 2001 Initial sphere trace algoritm. Only distance functions and normals are implemented.

November, 2001	Added solid noise or 'Hypertexture'.
September 25, 2001	Added CSG operation (union, intersection, difference), soft CSG (blobby objects). Added unary operations Taper and Twist. Also added Axis Aligned Bounding boxes and Fog.
August 8, 2001	Implemented a poly line shape and a poly bezier shape.
August 6, 2001	Created additional primitive shapes. Currently supported shapes (from left to right, top to bottom): Plane, Sphere, Disk, Torus, Box, Cone, Cylinder.
August 1, 2001	Implemented Tokenizer and Parsing of Shade hierarchy. Currently supported shades (from left to right, top to bottom): FlatShade, Material, Reflective, Texture, Turbulence, ShadeBlend.
Juli 2001	Implemented Shade hierarchy, using hard coded scene description. Implemented Light model (Material shade).
Juni 2001	Initial sphere trace algoritm. Only distance functions and normals are implemented.