Nit

Nit is a Monte-Carlo path-tracing renderer built with Rust

Project Roadmap

Tentative plan for the program

Object Primitives

• Spheres
• Rectangles
• Triangles
• Generic Polygons

Materials

• Lambertian
• Metal
• Glass
• Glossy
• Lights

Tone Mapping

• Clamp
• Reinhard-Jodie
• Filmic
• Camera Response Functions

Performance

• Parallel Rendering (CPU)
• Parallel Rendering (GPU)
• Multi-machine distributed rendering
• MLT
• Importance Sampling
• BVH
• k-d tree

General Features

• STL File loading
• Photon mapping
• Spectral rays
• Adaptive sampling
• Russian Roulette loop termination