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Top 23 C++ Raytracing Projects
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Project mention: Wicked Engine replaced Bullet with Jolt physics, immediate performance gains | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-24
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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FluidX3D
The fastest and most memory efficient lattice Boltzmann CFD software, running on all GPUs and CPUs via OpenCL. Free for non-commercial use.
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Project mention: Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11
Is this a recreation of the venerable POV-RAY https://www.povray.org/ (30 years old now, wow)?
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Unreal-Engine-Guide
Unreal Engine 5 Guide. Learn to develop games for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch.
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hybrid-rendering
A Vulkan sample that demonstrates a Rasterization and Ray Tracing Hybrid Rendering Pipeline.
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BioExplorer
The Blue Brain BioExplorer (BBBE) is a tool for data visualization experts and scientists to extract and analyze scientific data from visualization and interactive exploration
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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).
C++ Raytracing discussion
C++ Raytracing related posts
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F3D – Fast and minimalist 3D viewer
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Wicked Engine replaced Bullet with Jolt physics, immediate performance gains
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F3d v2.3.0 Released – Fast and minimalist 3D viewer
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High Performance Voxel Engine (2021)
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Offering mentorship for first open source contributions
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Some DIY helmet mods for my cyberpunk-inspired cosplay
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Looking for Windows devs to help with an opensource C++ 3D viewer
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Raytracing projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WickedEngine | 6,220 |
| 2 | tinyraytracer | 5,147 |
| 3 | FluidX3D | 4,414 |
| 4 | F3D | 3,441 |
| 5 | tinykaboom | 2,370 |
| 6 | vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR | 1,504 |
| 7 | povray | 1,412 |
| 8 | Unreal-Engine-Guide | 1,205 |
| 9 | vk_mini_path_tracer | 1,177 |
| 10 | GPU-Raytracer | 882 |
| 11 | hybrid-rendering | 853 |
| 12 | DiligentCore | 665 |
| 13 | Adria | 484 |
| 14 | RayTracing | 325 |
| 15 | ProtoTracer | 161 |
| 16 | RayTracer | 134 |
| 17 | CIS-565-Final-VR-Raytracer | 96 |
| 18 | vulkan_ray_tracing_minimal_abstraction | 92 |
| 19 | BioExplorer | 65 |
| 20 | path-tracer | 55 |
| 21 | PRayGround | 39 |
| 22 | Lift | 32 |
| 23 | astray | 25 |
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