Top 11 C++ Raytracer Projects

tinyraytracer

9 4,887 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

Project mention: But can it raytrace? | /r/termux | 2023-10-16

Source: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer

tinykaboom

1 2,309 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course
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GLSL-PathTracer

1 1,732 3.1 C++

A toy physically based GPU path tracer (C++/OpenGL/GLSL)
GPU-Raytracer

28 761 3.6 C++

GPU Raytracer from scratch in C++/CUDA
RayTracer

6 117 4.7 C++

A ray tracing program

Project mention: C++ Project Ideas? | /r/Cplusplus | 2023-07-04

And here there is a project of mine base on them (and not only): aromanro/RayTracer: A ray tracing program (github.com)

path-tracer

2 51 4.2 C++

A physically-based Monte Carlo Path Tracer (Ray Tracer) from scratch
astray

12 25 0.0 C++

A performance-portable geodesic ray tracing library. (by VRGroupRWTH)
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sightpy-weekend-raytracer

2 14 0.0 C++

This raytracer is a versatile implementation of Ray Tracing in One Weekend Book Series which uses Python as the interface for the scene description
Cinder

1 6 0.0 C++

Cross-platform, modular, extendable ray-tracer. (by SparkyPotato)
ApolloRaytracer

1 5 0.0 C++

A hobby Blinn-Phong shaded ray-tracer written in C++
Vision

1 0 0.0 C++

A modern cross-platform Vulkan based path tracing and 3d modeling application (by Illuminai)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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A few images from my Blinn-Phong ray-tracer
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Another implementation of PBRTv3 in Rust
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I finally made a completed app in c++
2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 11 Jan 2021
I’m am an beginner when it comes to openGL, and am thinking about implementation of ray tracing in my engine, and came across compute and mesh shaders. I have a few questions regarding them, so could someone please help me with these?
4 projects | /r/opengl | 27 Dec 2020
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Raytracer projects in C++? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	tinyraytracer	4,887
2	tinykaboom	2,309
3	GLSL-PathTracer	1,732
4	GPU-Raytracer	761
5	RayTracer	117
6	path-tracer	51
7	astray	25
8	sightpy-weekend-raytracer	14
9	Cinder	6
10	ApolloRaytracer	5
11	Vision	0