ray-tracing.md

title	Ray tracing

Ray tracing

This is nice intro. Hybrid Rendering is nice code to study.

Links

• Ray Tracing in One Weekend: The Book Series (Code) (Book)
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend implemented in Golang, chapter-by-chapter
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend implemented in C++, chapter-by-chapter
• Understandable Ray Tracing in 256 lines of bare C++ course (2019)
• C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer
• Nori - Educational ray tracer.
• Ray tracing a tiny procedural planet
• HTML5 raycasting demo using React (Code) (HN)
• Lighthouse 2 framework for real-time ray tracing
• Dawn RT - Ray tracing extension for WebGPU.
• Quake II RTX - NVIDIA’s implementation of RTX ray-tracing in Quake II.
• Performance comparison of parallel ray tracing in functional programming languages
• RayTracer.jl - Ray Tracer written completely in Julia.
• Ray Tracing Essentials (2020)
• Rayt - Monte Carlo ray tracer developed using Rust.
• Ray Tracing with POV-Ray (Lobsters) (HN)
• bvh - Rust crate which exports rays, axis-aligned bounding boxes, and binary bounding volume hierarchies.
• Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer (2020)
• Ray Tracing In Notepad.exe At 30 FPS (2020) (HN)
• MentisOculi Pytorch Path Tracer
• Ray Tracing implemented in multiple languages (Web)
• SwiftlyRT - Implementation of the Ray Tracer Challenge in Swift.
• Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive (2020)
• Ray Tracer in OCaml
• Rust implementation of "Ray Tracing In One Weekend" by Peter Shirley
• Simple Ray Casting with ClojureScript (2020)
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend in TypeScript
• Embree - Collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel.
• C-Ray - Small, simple path tracer written in C.
• Tungsten Renderer - High performance physically based renderer in C++11.
• Ray Tracing Gems - High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. (Code)
• Ray Tracing Gems II: Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX (2021) (Code) (HN)
• CUDA based Ray Tracer
• Saturno - Implementation of 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' in Rust (and wasm).
• Ray tracing in Nim (2020) (HN)
• How to Write a Ray Tracer Intuitively (2020)
• Traceur: a path tracing renderer in Ink and JavaScript (2020)
• Racing the Beam Ray Tracer (2018) - Full Hardware Real-Time Ray-Tracer. (Code)
• Ray-tracer / Learning project with Rust
• tray_rust - Toy Ray Tracer in Rust.
• Visionaray - C++-based, cross platform ray tracing library. (Web)
• Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - How ray tracing can be integrated into a modern, forward+ engine with minimal-to-no content changes.
• Slightly Incremental Ray Tracing In One Weekend (2020)
• SORT (Simple Open-source Ray Tracing) - Cross platform ray tracing renderer in C++. (Web)
• redner - Differentiable Monte Carlo Ray Tracing through Edge Sampling.
• Vulkan Real-time Path Tracer Engine
• Rust Ray Tracer, an Update (and SIMD) (2020) (Lobsters)
• Path Tracing with Babylon, Background and Implementation
• Lentil - Advanced camera toolkit for the Arnold renderer. Ray tracing through real lenses. (HN)
• Factorio Raytracer
• rpt - Physically-based path tracer in Rust.
• Raygon - High-performance proprietary CPU path tracer written in the Rust programming language.
• Jaeger - Open source, end-to-end distributed tracing. (Code)
• SuperRT - Realtime raytracing on the SNES (2020) (HN)
• vk_mini_path_tracer - Beginner-friendly Vulkan path tracing tutorial in under 300 lines of C++.
• OptixPathTracer - Simple physically based path tracer based on Nvidia's Optix Ray Tracing Engine.
• RtRs - Simple ray tracing & rasterization engine written in rust.
• Why Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering (2020) (HN)
• Psychopath - Slightly psychotic path tracer.
• Helios - Real-time unidirectional GPU path tracer using the cross-vendor Vulkan ray-tracing extensions.
• retrace.gl - Create, ray trace & export programmatically defined Signed Distance Function CSG geometries with an API suited for generative art - in your browser.
• Ray Tracing in pure CMake (2020) (Code)
• Simple ray tracer written in Rust from scratch (HN)
• Awesome Ray Tracing
• raytracing-go - Go implementation of the book Ray Tracing in One Weekend.
• Coding Adventure: Ray Marching (2019)
• A Course on Ray Tracing and Global Illumination
• Ray tracer for those who skipped the math class (2021)
• A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1 (2021) (HN)
• Arnold Renderer - Advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects.
• Automated Testing of a Ray Tracer (2021)
• Python-Fast-Raytracer - Basic Ray Tracer that exploits numpy arrays and functions to work fast.
• Physically based monte carlo path tracer written in C++
• Volumetric Path Tracer using CUDA
• Portal explorer - Web visualization of mind-blowing portals using ray-tracing.
• Ray casting in 2D game engines (Code) (Cheat Sheet)
• Ray tracer in Rust
• Helios - Real-time unidirectional GPU path tracer using the cross-vendor Vulkan ray-tracing extensions.
• Peter Shirley Ray Tracing (in C++ 17)
• Simulating the Colors of the Sky
• Hybrid Ray Tracer in Go
• Hybrid Rendering - Vulkan sample that demonstrates a Rasterization and Ray Tracing Hybrid Rendering Pipeline. (Tweet)
• Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013) (HN)
• Raytracing diamonds (2021) (HN)
• VXCT - OpenGL-based Implementation of Cyril Crassins Voxel Cone Tracing.
• The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust. (2022) (HN)
• Ray Tracing in a week-end, implemented in Julia
• RayOpt - Optics design (lenses, cavities, gaussian optics, lasers). Geometric, paraxial, and gaussian ray tracing.
• euclider - Higher dimensional raytracing prototype with non-euclidean-like features.
• RT - Ray tracing engine, from scratch, in C++.
• Ambient occlusion for real-time ray-tracing (2022) (Reddit)
• etx-tracer - Physically-based CPU and GPU ray-tracer.
• Type-Safe Raytracing in Modern C++ (2019)
• Tiny GPU raytracer, using Zig and WebGPU
• Raytracing on a Graphing Calculator (again) (2022)
• How much boilerplate code you need to write a ray-tracer? (HN)
• Writing ray-tracer using Metal Performance Shaders
• Rusttracer - Ray tracer written in Rust for fun and learning.
• Haskell Ray Tracer
• How to add thousands of lights to your renderer and not die in the process (2022) (HN)
• gatling - Hydra-enabled GPU path tracer that supports MaterialX.
• Ashes - WebGL2.0 3D Engine - RayTracing.
• Ray tracing, a 4 year retrospective (2022)
• Ignis - Experimental ray tracer for the RENEGADE project implemented with the AnyDSL compiler framework for CPU and GPU. (Docs)
• State of the Art in Monte Carlo Ray Tracing for Realistic Image Synthesis (2001)
• Ray Optics Simulation - Open-source web app to simulate the reflection and refraction of light. (Code)
• Ray tracing in WebGL
• CUDA Pathtracer - GPU Ray tracer from scratch in C++/CUDA.
• Path tracer in rust
• Ray tracing in one weekend, in Rust
• NanoRT - Single header only modern ray tracing kernel.
• Monte Carlo Ray Tracer - Physically based renderer with Path Tracing and Photon Mapping.
• Tiny ray-tracing engine
• Literate ray tracing in Zig
• Core Ray Tracer
• How Ray Tracing works and how to do it faster (2022) (HN)
• Ray tracing Voxels made out of Glass (HN)
• Ray Tracing In Vulkan - Implementation of Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing In One Weekend book using Vulkan and NVIDIA's RTX extension.
• A pure-meson ray tracer (2022)
• Radeon Ray tracing Analyzer - Tool to visualize and inspect Bounding Volume Hierarchies (BVH) for ray tracing applications.
• Aurora - Real-time path tracing renderer that leverages GPU hardware ray tracing.
• Real time GPU ray tracer created with Vulkano