PixelWeave

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.

Renders

It is currently capable of producing the following basic renders and similar ones.

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

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Future Goals

Clearly the above images are of not high quality. The reasons for them and future upgrades planned to combat it.

1. Extremely large render times - add scene graph optimizations (BVH to start with)
2. Lower samples lead to noisy renders - add denoising capability
3. Parallelize Code - the problem is after all "Embarassingly Parallel"
4. Only has hemispheric light support - Add other PBR lights
5. Add texturing support
6. Add animation primitives (also motion blur)
7. Support for triangles and other shape primitives