Create Your Own Raytracer By Using Azure

  • Article

Everyone is talking about cloud solutions. Let’s see how you can write your own rendering system using Azure cloud solution in order to be able to realize your own 3D rendered movie.

raytracer

1) Prerequisites
To be able to use the project, you must have:
- a Visual Studio 2010 version (Express version is supported): https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions
- Windows Azure SDK: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/downloads/
- You will also need an Azure account. You can get a free one just there: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/ 

2)Architecture

architecher

3) Deploying to Azure

4) Defining a scene

5) Web server and workers roles  

6) How it works?

7) JavaScript client

You can visit the blog here to read the full details for using Azure to create your own Raytracer.