This is the first release of my little ray tracer. See the html directory
for a description of its features.

The project has its home in the internet at
 http://www.povworld.org/raytracer

You should be able to compile the program using
./configure
make

I have tested the compilation with gcc 2.95 and gcc 3.2 and the intel
compiler version 6.0. I recommend gcc 3.2 for best performance. Support for
gcc 2.95.x will probably be dropped in future.

Once compiled you find a binary in the raytracer/raytracer/ directory. You
can cd there and start the ray tracer with ./raytracer. Note that there is
currently no parser! That means if you want to create your own scenes you
will have to program them in c++.

The compiled program provides the example scenes 0 through 5. You can
specify the scene number using '-n NUMBER' option. Further you can specify
the image with and height using '-h HEIGHT' and '-w WIDTH'.

E.g.
 ./raytracer -n 3 -w 320 -h 240 
will render scene number 3 in 320x240.

Send comments to the program and source code, possible bugs or any questions
to mriser@gmx.net.

You are welcome to contribute to the project.

Have fun!
- Micha Riser