README.md

Software Path Tracing on GPU - Web Page

How to build

1. Install the Vulkan SDK, if you want to run on Vulkan.

2. Open the project with Visual Studio 2022:

/Application/Solution - Visual Studio 2022/Project.snl

4. Select Debug or Release as the build target.

References

• The Forge
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend
• Coding Adventure: Ray Tracing
• Simulating the Colors of the Sky
• Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
• A Framework for the Experimental Comparison of Solar and Skydive Illumination, Joseph T. Kider Jr et al., Cornell University 2014.

License

The project's license is MIT. However, The Forge middleware uses Apache 2.0.