Python-Fast-Raytracer
A basic Ray Tracer that exploits numpy arrays and functions to work fast. The code is written keeping as much readability as possible.
- Refraction
- Thin film interference
- Textures
- Monte Carlo Ray Tracing with importance sampling
- Relativistic optical effects
Installation
Just clone or download this repo. You'll need to install two packages.
- Pillow is a fork of the PIL package. It provides the Image module for this application. to install it run the following.
pip install pillow
- Numpy is a scientific package that helps with mathematical functions.
pip install numpy
See the examples to see how to render the following images:
python example1.py
python example2.py
python example3.py
python example4.py
python example_cornell_box.py
Some animations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9vAcZQT4A
A basic version of this raytracer can be found here: https://github.com/jamesbowman/raytrace