Spectral Ray Tracing

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  • mitsuba3

    Mitsuba 3: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

  • Some examples of Spectral ray tracers

    Mitsuba is an open source research renderer with lots of cool features like differentiable rendering. https://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/

    Maxwell has two spectral modes of varying accuracy. The more complex method is often used for optics. https://maxwellrender.com/

    Manuka by Wētā FX is spectral and has been used in several feature films https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3182161 and https://www.wetafx.co.nz/research-and-tech/technology/manuka

  • Lambda

    Spectral Path Tracer (by TomCrypto)

  • If you want to look under the hood and find the big production ones like too complex, I can recommend peeking at this one. It's a great example example of just the minimum of a spectral path tracer https://github.com/TomCrypto/Lambda

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  • pbrt-v3

    Source code for pbrt, the renderer described in the third edition of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation", by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys.

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