This is a showcase of a custom ray tracer built in Python as a proof of concept for a computer graphics project. The scene is first rendered in OpenGL and the press of a key can render the current camera view as a ray traced image. Each pixel of the ray traced image is calculated sequentially from top to bottom, left to right. The process is a bit slow compared to modern ray tracing engines, as the simple 500x500 pixel images take a few minutes to render. The ray tracer is built to showcase calculating reflections, refractions, shadows, and ambient occlusion using matrix math and vector algebra. This was a really fun project to work on! I have gained a new appreciation for the complexity of ray tracing algorithms, especially ones that are run in real time.