Ray tracing on GLSL

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I'm looking for to simulate the reflection effect using ray tracing on GLSL, however I could not find good references, examples or tutorial related to this topic. When I got some interesting data, the method is limited for specific object's surfaces (e.g. sphere, cube...); it is not my case. I also know the GLSL does not support recursive functions, but as far as I know the ray tracing can be done iteratively.

My goal is to simulate the reverberation process for an acoustic sensor as follows: primary reflections by rasterization; and secondary reflections by ray tracing. When a ray hits the object's surface, the distance and normal values are measured.

Follows below my current code. At this moment, I am able to calculate the ray parameters (world position and direction vector values, for each pixel), however I do not know how to calculate the data when a ray hits a surface.

Thanks in advance. Any help is very much welcome.

Vertex shader:

#version 130

uniform mat4 osg_ViewMatrixInverse;

out vec3 positionEyeSpace;
out vec3 normalEyeSpace;
uniform vec3 cameraPos;

// ray definition, with an origin point and a direction vector
struct Ray {
    vec3 origin;
    vec3 direction;
};

void main() {
    gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;

    // world space
    mat4 modelWorld = osg_ViewMatrixInverse * gl_ModelViewMatrix;
    vec3 positionWorldSpace = vec3(modelWorld * gl_Vertex);
    vec3 normalWorldSpace = mat3(modelWorld) * gl_Normal;

    // eye space
    positionEyeSpace = vec3(gl_ModelViewMatrix * gl_Vertex);
    normalEyeSpace = gl_NormalMatrix * gl_Normal;

    // calculate the reflection direction for an incident vector
    vec3 I = normalize(positionWorldSpace - cameraPos);
    vec3 N = normalize(normalWorldSpace);
    vec3 reflectedDirection = normalize(reflect(I, N));
}

Fragment shader:

#version 130

in vec3 positionEyeSpace;
in vec3 normalEyeSpace;

uniform float farPlane;
uniform bool drawNormal;
uniform bool drawDepth;

out vec4 out_data;

void main() {
    vec3 nNormalEyeSpace = normalize(normalEyeSpace);

    vec3 nPositionEyeSpace = normalize(-positionEyeSpace);

    float linearDepth = sqrt(positionEyeSpace.x * positionEyeSpace.x +
                             positionEyeSpace.y * positionEyeSpace.y +
                             positionEyeSpace.z * positionEyeSpace.z);

    linearDepth = linearDepth / farPlane;

    // output the normal and depth data as matrix
    out_data = vec4(0, 0, 0, 1);
    if (linearDepth <= 1) {
        if (drawNormal) out_data.z = abs(dot(nPositionEyeSpace, nNormalEyeSpace));
        if (drawDepth)  out_data.y = linearDepth;
    }

    gl_FragDepth = linearDepth;
}

Ray tracing on GLSL

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