de.grogra.ray.tracing
Interface RayProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

BidirectionalPathTracer, DefaultRayTracer, PathTracerHS, PathTracerMT, PhotonMapping

public interface RayProcessor

An implementation of this interface encapsulates the raytracing algorithm. This class uses an IntersectionProcessor for determining intersection information about a single ray in the scene. Therefore it must not know the scene at all. It only interpretes the intersection information and sends out and traces new (reflected,fractured,..) rays.

Author:

Micha

Method Summary

void	getColorFromRay(Ray ray, Color4f color) The main methode of a ray processor.
LightProcessor	getLightProcessor()
int	getRecursionDepth()
boolean	hasFixedLightProcessor()
void	prepareRayProcessor(RTScene scene, IntersectionProcessor intersectionProcessor) With this method the processor is initialized with a 3d scene and an intersection processor it will use.
void	setLightProcessor(LightProcessor lightProcessor)
void	setRecursionDepth(int value)

Method Detail

getColorFromRay

void getColorFromRay(Ray ray,
                     Color4f color)

The main methode of a ray processor. This methode has to calculate a color (or luminance of the red, gren and blue ) for each ray.

Parameters:

ray - input - calculate for this ray

color - output - the calculated color

getLightProcessor

LightProcessor getLightProcessor()

getRecursionDepth

int getRecursionDepth()

hasFixedLightProcessor

boolean hasFixedLightProcessor()

prepareRayProcessor

void prepareRayProcessor(RTScene scene,
                         IntersectionProcessor intersectionProcessor)

With this method the processor is initialized with a 3d scene and an intersection processor it will use.

Parameters:

scene -

intersectionProcessor -

setLightProcessor

void setLightProcessor(LightProcessor lightProcessor)

setRecursionDepth

void setRecursionDepth(int value)