California State University San Bernardino
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Independent Study Presentation

Date Friday, March 27, 2009 Time 10:45am - 11:30am Place JBH 359

Title Ray tracing in Computer Graphics Using OpenGL

Presenter Wenzhe Xue

Advisor Dr. Tong Yu


Abstract

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by
tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane. The technique 
is capable of producing a very high degree of photorealism; usually higher
than that of typical scanline rendering methods, but at a greater 
computational cost.

In the presentation, I will introduce the basic of ray tracing and several
ray tracing algorithms.