“Teapot Rendering Competition” by Yuksel

Teapot Rendering Competition (TRC) is the final assignment of the graduate-level “Ray Tracing for Graphics” course at the University of Utah. In this course, students develop their own renderers using ray tracing, following a series of assignments throughout a semester. This final assignment gives students a chance to explore the kind of visually-appealing images they can produce using the renderers they develop and share them with their classmates and the local community. Examples of award-winning images from Teapot Rendering Competition events are shown in Figures 1 and 2.