Nov 212012
In the picture above I am visualizing the normals of each hit. It is using multisampling and purely diffuse material so that some rays get scattered inte space (the box is missing one side). Note that the back wall is missing — the rectangle had the points stored in incorrect order so that the normal was pointing out the opposite side. The fixed back wall can be seen below.
Now that I can scatter and have material properties, I can do actual path tracing. The image below uses essential lambertian surfaces, hence the absorption is relative to $cos(\phi)$ and it uses only diffuse scattering. I increased the number of samples from 20 to 50 which turns out to make the image darker since more more rays end up in space without hits.
