Further resources #
Free Books #
- Ray Tracing in One Weekend
- Ray Tracing: The Next Week
- Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life
- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
- Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs
- Ray Tracing Gems II: Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX
- An Introduction to Ray Tracing
Books #
- Ray Tracing from the Ground Up
- The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer
- Realistic Ray Tracing
- Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping
Popular open source ray tracers #
- Human Shader
- Business Card Ray Tracer
- smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++
- Nori: A educational ray tracer
- pbrt, Version 4: Ray tracer form the book “Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation”
- Embree: A collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels
- Mitsuba Renderer 3
- LuxCoreRender
- appleseed
- MoonRay: A production renderer
On GitHub you can find more thant 9.6k ray tracing related repositories ;)