This package brings the Mitsuba 2 renderer to Julia using PyCall.jl.
Mitsuba2.jl relies on the mitsuba package being available in your local Python installation.
On Arch Linux, this can be done by installing mitsuba2-git from the AUR.
Different distributions of Linux (as well as other OSes like Mac OS and Windows) are un-tested, and may package the mitsuba Python module differently.
Testing and feedback are very welcome for this pre-alpha package!
A simple scene can be rendered with a few commands that closely parallel the Python examples in the mitsuba documentation.
using Mitsuba2
import Mitsuba2.scalar_rgb as mitsuba
scene = mitsuba.load_string(read("test_scene.xml", String))
sensor = first(scene.sensors())
scene.integrator().render(scene, sensor) # true means success
bmp = sensor.film().bitmap(raw=true)