This is a very easy understandable Python version ray tracing program code by DeerMichel.
We used the PyCUDA to accelerate the ray tracing rendering program as our heterogeneous computing course project. Now it can finish rendering in minute. Works on tesseract server, too.
Prefer to run on Python 2, need to change Queue to queue to run on Python 3
python main.py to run CPU program
python main_gpu.py to run CUDA GPU version program
The output is a PPM format image file.
From orginal arthor:
A basic raytracer that will render you a fancy spherific demo scene via
python3 main.py. Guess what, it's slow! One could speed things up by using numpy and doing other nifty optimizations... However this project was meant to get to know Python - not to create a state-of-the-art-super-pathtracer - instead just use C++ and be fine. Or check out Minilight - a beautiful GI path tracer (keep in mind: Python won't get faster ^^). Nevertheless, if you want to improve sth (e.g. fix the super-sampling)... feel free to do so 😅.
