PolarTracer (Cuda)

A Path Tracer built with Cuda and C++. For more information about path tracers, you can visit a previous project of mine CPU-Path-Tracer

Building Instructions

• Download & Install the Cuda Toolkit.

• Install your C++ compiler of choice (compatible with nvcc, NVIDIA's CUDA compiler).

• Install imagemagick (On Windows & Linux): this is used to convert *.pam images into *.png files

• On windows, run run.bat to build & run the test scene.

• On linux, run run.sh to build & run the test scene.

• The frame will be saved as frame.png.

• Enjoy :-)

References

• NVIDIA's Fermi GPU Architecture White Paper
• CppCon 2016: “Bringing Clang and C++ to GPUs: An Open-Source, CUDA-Compatible GPU C++ Compiler"