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paths is a software path-tracing renderer written in Rust.

It is purely a hobby-project for me to learn about this technology, and I had no idea how path-tracing worked (other than vague intuition) before starting.

• Basic path tracing of spheres
• Point lights
• Multithreading
• Collision acceleration (BVH)
• Textures
• Triangle meshes
• Normal smoothing (of triangle meshes)
• Importance sampling
• Reflective materials
• Glossy materials
• Microfacet specular model
• Camera lens simulation
• Next event estimation
• HDRI Environment maps
• Translucent materials (refraction)
• Subsurface scattering
• Bi-directional path tracing

[2020/05/23] Support for HDRI environment maps (thanks for HDRI Haven for the HDRIs!)

[2020/05/15] Support for per-vertex colours baked into meshes (thanks to Artec3D for this awesome model):

[2020/05/10] Rewritten large parts of the renderer so that the results match a reference renderer (Mitsuba)

[2020/05/04] Next event estimation to efficiently simulate point/area light sources

[2020/04/22] Microfacet model to create shiny, rough teapot material

[2019/03/14] Teapot model with ~6000 triangles and smoothed normals

[2019/03/11] 500 randomly generated spheres

[2019/03/07] Close up of green sphere with strong bokeh on the background

[2019/03/05] 2 glossy spheres and one perfect mirror sphere on a reflective plane.

[2019/03/03] 2 Spheres with large off-screen light source