Collins Engineering, Inc.

Software & Documentation. (Purchase at website.) Welcome! TheRayTracer™ Classic w/ User's Guide, 2nd Ed. @ $79.99 is the Windows® 8, 8.1, 10 Home/Pro 3D CAD software application for rendering mathematically modeled graphical objects in overall photorealistic computer scenes and/or prototypes with all the aesthetics of shapes, color, lighting, and shadows. It has an interactive, textual user-interface (TUI) with a fast ray-tracing engine; and, it generates bitmaps as color output. Your computer scenes and/or prototypes can be a mixture of simple and compound objects. It uses pure Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)--which consists of the Boolean operations union, intersection, and difference. Use it for building hierarchical compound objects from a pool of 10 primitives (n/i plane), which themselves first transform into simple objects and subsequently may become part of a reusable compound object/sub-object. Also, it features breakthrough technology for simple and compound transparent objects. I disruptively refer to the driving mechanism of the graphics engine as a software laser engine-device (SLED) rather than the textbooks'​ "camera"​ because of the contrasting directionality of the emanating rays for the two distinct concepts. Follow our company (top of page) to receive the latest updates. Features include: Interactive, Textual User-Interface (TUI)... Fast Ray-Tracing Engine ... Driven by the innovative Software Laser Engine-Device (SLED) ... Pure Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) ... Eleven Primitives ... Simple & Compound Objects ... Shapes/Color/Lighting/Shadows ... Phong Shading ... Transformations ... Transparency/Reflection ... Hierarchical Mediums ... Platonic Solids (Convex Polyhedra) ... Checkerboards ... 3D Cartesian Coordinate System (xyz) ... Bitmap Output File Format (.BMP) ... Ray-Tracing Interface Input File Format (.RTI) ... User's Guide, 2nd Edition (43 pages) ... Text Prompts ... Laser Beam Coordinates Readout ... Elapsed Time Readout.