Paralight

Real-time Path-tracing Renderer

Written in C++11 as personal learning project

Build with CMake, tested on Windows and Mac

Features

• C++ renderer with OpenMP for multithreading (CPU only)
• OpenCL renderer (GPU or CPU)
• Monte-Carlo estimator with BRDF Importance Sampling
• BVH partitionning with Surface Area Heuristic (SAH)
• PBR shading model based on Lambert/CookTorrance for diffuse/specular
• Progressive accumulation
• Freefly and orbit camera
• On-the-fly OpenCL kernels editing

Libraries used

• ImGui for user interface
• SDL2 for windowing and input
• SDL2_image for texture loading
• Assimp for model loading
• OpenCL C++ Bindings

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