Top 55 ray-tracing open source projects

Data visualisation in Python based on OptiX 7.2 ray tracing framework.

A modern C++ BVH construction and traversal library

The Forge Cross-Platform Rendering Framework PC Windows, Linux, Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

Monte Carlo ray tracer developed using Rust

Simple ray tracer written in Rust

A testbed project for Unity real-time ray tracing features

Real-time unidirectional GPU path tracer using the cross-vendor Vulkan ray-tracing extensions.

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

A (modern) C++ implementation of the first two books of the Peter Shirley Ray Tracing mini-books (https://raytracing.github.io). Features a clean project structure, perf. improvements (compared to the original code), multi-core rendering, and more.

Path tracer written in Golang

🔅 Ray tracing library for Vulkan API (indev)

以历史的发展的眼光来看光线追踪技术，1968年至2018年重点论文相关算法复现。

A program with an implemented Monte Carlo Ray Tracer algorithm for global illumination of a virtual 3D scene.

Project for an open-source python library for synthetic diagnostics and tomography for Fusion devices

Framework for playing around with rendering libraries in Rust

An Open, Scalable, Portable, Ray Tracing Based Rendering Engine for High-Fidelity Visualization

A GLSL Path Tracer

Mirror of the official Blender Git repository. Updated every hour.

LuxCore source repository

A real-time global illumination implementation using voxel cone tracing. Implemented in C++ and GLSL.

Simple Open-source Ray Tracer

[UNMAINTAINED] Real-time path tracing on the web with three.js

Curated list of ray tracing resources

NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) and NeRF in the Wild using pytorch-lightning

A C++-based, cross platform ray tracing library

Main Web Site (Online Books)

C-Ray is a small, simple path tracer written in C

A path tracer in 300 lines of C++

Blender Integration for LuxCore

Core functionality of Diligent Engine

High-Performance Multiple-Backend Renderer Based on LuisaCompute

WebRays - Ray Tracing on the Web

A simple renderer implemented by WebGPU, includes a builtin path tracing pipeline.

High-level concept explanations, detailed tutorials, performance considerations, shortcuts and other useful content that aims to improve your Unreal Engine 4 development journey.

Rendering framework with rasterizers & path tracers implemented using Vulkan, OptiX & OpenGL

cram is a computational room acoustics module to simulate and explore various acoustic properties of a modeled space

☀️ The Rosetta smallpt (small path tracing) project

Curated collection of projects leveraging NVIDIA RTX technology (OptiX, DXR, VKR)

Official repository of Vanilla Raytraced resources pack.

Learn Ray Tracing in One Weekend series using Rust.

Ray tracing sample using GGX reflection model, 1spp with spatial-temporal denoiser. Acceleration structure build uses async compute.

GPU based framework for writing Raytracers/Pathtracers. (Pronounced as "Yu-nay")

Shooting and bouncing rays method for radar cross-section calculations, accelerated with BVH algorithm running on GPU (C++ AMP).

A Modern C++ Windows-platform physically based renderer developing by Chang Yu.

3D rendering and animation engine for multifaceted displays on microcontrollers

A tool to make it easy to use Vulkan from Python. An interface for computation and off-screen rendering.

A developing physically-based hobby renderer written in C++.

A path tracer based on hardware ray tracing

A simple ray tracing engine

This hardware-agnostic rendering plug-in for Maya uses accurate ray-tracing technology to produce images and animations of your scenes, and provides real-time interactive rendering and continuous adjustment of effects.

This plug-in allows GPU or CPU accelerated viewport rendering on all OpenCL 1.2 hardware for the open source USD and Hydra system. You can build this plug-in as a USDView plug-in or a Houdini plug-in.

Simple Game Engine Focusing on Vulkan Ray Tracing

A program that takes photographs of a virtual world.

Monte Carlo path tracing implementation on Rust