Path Tracing

This is my current renderer that I am actively developing for use in my PhD to help me prototype and implement new algorithms as well as provide a reference renderer (in this case a simple path tracer) to test my results against. There are now 5 different renderers along with a fairly fast BVH, multi-threaded rendering and a number of BSDFs. The renderer also has a fast OpenGL preview which allows you to fly around find a good spot and simply hit a button to path trace that particular view. This feature also makes easy debugging far easier.

I’ve had a long standing interest in fractals that extends way back to when I was starting out in graphics programming. Below are some of my fractals images that I felt were decent enough to make it out for the public to actually see.

These images are an assortment of images that were produced by the multitude of different renderers I have written over the years. As time has passed the images have been thankfully getting slightly better and each time a new revision is completed (and then scrapped) at least a few images make it out unscathed.

This was a 2-D raytracer that I did quite a while back which in essence visualises the light at any point in a scene and is a great way to get into more complicated global illumination effects such as diffuse inter-reflections and caustics without too much coding or optimisation.