ray: introduce a rudimentary ray tracer

My first ray tracer, it only has spheres, planes, and point light sources.

No texture mapping, no soft shadows, no global illumination.

This is all very basic right now, the camera movement is simple and boring, but
sufficient for further development and optimization.

I made some effort to support multiple CPUs, it should detect the number of
CPUs in the system and use enough pthreads to keep them busy.

Jacco Bikker's tutorial on flipcode was the original impetus to do this, and
definitely served as a guide early on.

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/ray/ray_object_plane.h b/modules/ray/ray_object_plane.h
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+++ b/modules/ray/ray_object_plane.h
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+#ifndef _RAY_OBJECT_PLANE_H
+#define _RAY_OBJECT_PLANE_H
+
+#include "ray_object_type.h"
+#include "ray_ray.h"
+#include "ray_scene.h"
+#include "ray_surface.h"
+
+
+typedef struct ray_object_plane_t {
+	ray_object_type_t	type;
+	ray_surface_t		surface;
+	ray_3f_t		normal;
+	float			distance;
+} ray_object_plane_t;
+
+
+static inline int ray_object_plane_intersects_ray(ray_object_plane_t *plane, ray_ray_t *ray, float *res_distance)
+{
+	float	d = ray_3f_dot(&plane->normal, &ray->direction);
+
+	if (d != 0) {
+		float	distance = -(ray_3f_dot(&plane->normal, &ray->origin) + plane->distance) / d;
+
+		if (distance > 0) {
+			*res_distance = distance;
+
+			return 1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+static inline ray_3f_t ray_object_plane_normal(ray_object_plane_t *plane, ray_3f_t *point)
+{
+	return plane->normal;
+}
+
+
+static inline ray_surface_t ray_object_plane_surface(ray_object_plane_t *plane, ray_3f_t *point)
+{
+	return plane->surface;
+}
+
+#endif