Cinder

Cinder is a modular and extensible raytracer.

Cornell Box rendered with Cinder, at a resolution of 1200x1200, with 128 samples per pixel.

Cornell Box rendered with Mitsuba 2, at a resolution of 1200x1200, with 128 samples per pixel.

Depth of field sample rendered with Cinder, at a resolution of 1000x1000, with 128 samples per pixel.

Features

Implemented features include:

1. Framework for ray-intersection acceleration structures.
2. Lambertian, Oren-Nayar, Cook-Torrance, and Specular BRDFs.
3. Microfacet and Fresnel adapters for reflection and transmission.
4. Camera framework, with a simple perspective camera and a thin lens approximated camera.
5. Sampler framework, with a random sampler.
6. Image reconstruction filter, with a box filter.
7. Spheres and triangle mesh geometry.
8. Point, directional, area, and environmental lights.
9. Emissive, glass, matte, metal, mirror, and plastic materials.
10. Recursive Whitted renderer, and unbiased Monte-Carlo path tracer, with next event estimation and multiple importance sampling.
11. 8-bit, HDR, and constant textures.

Using Cinder

Visit the documentation at ReadTheDocs