A simple Path Tracing Rendering Engine written in Python
It is currently painstakingly slow as it is a bare minimum renderer with no optimizations done at all.
This is a project in development and the final result as planned is a real time ray tracing engine with ML-based super sampling and possibly, video rendering with ability to skip frames and using ML-technicues to fill in.
It is currently capable of producing the following basic renders and similar ones.
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| Fig: Renders Produced by the Engine. Descriptions are in a clockwise fashion. A basic three sphere configuration with no camera effects. The same three sphere configuration with changeable camera position and Depth Of Field Effects. A randomly generated scene filled with 100 spheres with different material properties | |
Clearly the above images are of not high quality. The reasons for them and future upgrades planned to combat it.
- Extremely large render times - add scene graph optimizations (BVH to start with)
- Lower samples lead to noisy renders - add denoising capability
- Parallelize Code - the problem is after all "Embarassingly Parallel"
- Only has hemispheric light support - Add other PBR lights
- Add texturing support
- Add animation primitives (also motion blur)
- Support for triangles and other shape primitives