CSE 457 Trace project artifact readme

My scene consists of a glowing ball on a stick next to a tree, in front of a curved mirror, viewed through a lens. There is a point light source inside the ball, which is transmissive (causing a bunch of interreflection, making it look interesting). The tree is made of cones. The mirror behind the two is actually a large cylinder with high specularity. Because it is curved, the reflections are narrower than they would be with a true mirror, making this like a fun house mirror. But it's hard to see this because there is a lens in the way. The lens is an oblate spheroid that is transparent but has an index of refraction of 2. The reflection of the lens can be seen in the background.

Aside from the turquoise light source inside the lamp, there are directional light sources representing the sun and moon, shining down from above.

I used anti-aliasing to make this image. The executable and source code we submitted did not have anti-aliasing, but since it turned out to be trivial to add, I added it, and rendered my scene.