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, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/ray/ray_threads.h b/modules/ray/ray_threads.h
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+#ifndef _RAY_THREADS_H
+#define _RAY_THREADS_H
+
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+typedef struct ray_scene_t ray_scene_t;
+typedef struct ray_camera_t ray_camera_t;
+typedef struct fb_fragment_t fb_fragment_t;
+
+typedef struct ray_thread_t {
+	pthread_t	thread;
+	pthread_mutex_t	mutex;
+	pthread_cond_t	cond;
+	ray_scene_t	*scene;
+	ray_camera_t	*camera;
+	fb_fragment_t	*fragment;
+} ray_thread_t;
+
+typedef struct ray_threads_t {
+	unsigned	n_threads;
+	ray_thread_t	threads[];
+} ray_threads_t;
+
+
+ray_threads_t * ray_threads_create(unsigned num);
+void ray_threads_destroy(ray_threads_t *threads);
+
+void ray_thread_fragment_submit(ray_thread_t *thread, ray_scene_t *scene, ray_camera_t *camera, fb_fragment_t *fragment);
+void ray_thread_wait_idle(ray_thread_t *thread);
+#endif