Ray Tracing In One Weekend (Vulkan RTX)
A real-time ray tracer implementing Peter Shirley's 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' using Vulkan and NVIDIA RTX extensions.
What is Ray Tracing In One Weekend (Vulkan RTX)?
Ray Tracing in Vulkan is an open-source implementation of Peter Shirley's 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' book series, adapted to use the Vulkan graphics API and NVIDIA's RTX ray tracing extensions. It provides a real-time, interactive ray tracer that demonstrates how to leverage modern GPU hardware for accelerated rendering, supporting both procedural geometry and OBJ mesh loading.
Graphics programmers, Vulkan developers, and students interested in learning real-time ray tracing techniques and GPU-accelerated rendering pipelines.
It offers a practical, performance-oriented example of translating classic CPU ray tracing algorithms to a real-time Vulkan context, showcasing the significant speed gains possible with hardware-accelerated ray tracing on RTX-capable GPUs.
Overview
Implementation of Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing In One Weekend book using Vulkan and NVIDIA's RTX extension.
Use Cases
Best For
- Learning Vulkan ray tracing API and extensions
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