A pathtracer written in Scala for rendering somewhat realistic images.
This project was originally inspired by https://github.com/Harha/JPath. I read through the source of one of the first commits and then decided to try writing a pathtracer myself.
A probably incomplete list of features this pathtracer currently supports:
- Rendering:
- Distance based light absorbtion in volumes
- Scattering of light rays in participating media (fog)
- Refraction and reflection of light on surfaces according to the refractivity indices
- Sky material for rays that hit no geometry
- Materials:
- Fully Diffuse
- Reflective material with optional roughness
- Refractive material with roughness parameter
- transparent material with light absorbtion and ray scattering
- simple light emitting material
- directional light emitting material
- delegating material that chooses between two different materials based on the location in space
- Basic Shapes:
- Trangles
- AABBs
- Spheres
- raymarched (depth estimated) shapes
- Sphere
- Mandelbulb
- Other:
- Depth of Field effect controlled by aperture size and focus length
- the programm will try to use all CPU cores for rendering
- the scene is stored in a BVH during rendering
- simple and incomplete importer for PLY model files
Plans are currently found in this file. I will go through that list and put a redone version here later.
Here is an unordered list of resources I came across while researching for this project. If you are interested in ray/pathtracing you might want to check them out.
- https://github.com/TomCrypto/Lambda
- https://github.com/JamesGriffin/Path-Tracer
- https://github.com/Harha/JPath
- https://github.com/diwi/Space_Partitioning_Octree_BVH
- https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/thesis.pdf
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/
- http://www.woo4.me/
- http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxRender_Volumes
- http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2015/01/path-tracing-3d-fractals/