RayBender - Fast Python Ray-Tracing

RayBender is a Python package for fast CPU rendering using the Intel® Embree backend.

Installation

1. Clone the repository and its submodules by running:

git clone --recursive git@github.com:cvg/raybender.git
cd raybender

2. Install Embree following the official instructions and set the environmental variable embree_DIR to point to embree-config.cmake. On Linux, this can be done as follows:

wget https://github.com/embree/embree/releases/download/v3.12.2/embree-3.12.2.x86_64.linux.tar.gz
tar xvzf embree-3.12.2.x86_64.linux.tar.gz
rm embree-3.12.2.x86_64.linux.tar.gz
mv embree-3.12.2.x86_64.linux embree-3.12.2
export embree_DIR=`readlink -f embree-3.12.2/lib/cmake/embree-3.12.2`

3. Finally, RayBender can be installed using pip:

pip install .

Examples

Start by setting up the demo conda environment by running conda env create -f examples/env.yml and activate it conda activate raybender. Next, install RayBender by following the instructions above. Please refer to examples/demo.py for a minimal RGBD rendering examples from a triangle mesh.