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Ray's Ray Tracer - A (Forever In-progress) Monte Carlo Path Tracing Renderer

2019/08/08 - Project still needs a lot of work and I haven't worked on it in a while, but I need to open-source this repo for reasons.

Features

• Currently: 3.2 million rays/second
• Multi-threaded tile-based rendering
• Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) as an acceleration structure
• Procedural texturing
• Wavefront OBJ file parsing and rendering
• Lambertian BRDF
• Stratified sampling
• Math (vectors, matrices), high-resolution timing, memory arena allocator and more via raywan/rw

Screenshot

• Suzanne and 3 Spheres (2048spp, max depth of 3)

  

Building

This project supports Windows, Mac and Linux and uses Ninja for building. There's also a build.bat file for Windows.

python configure.py
ninja

Dependencies

• raywan/rw - everything
• nothings/stb - stb_image_writer.h

Resources

• PBRT