Apress/ray-tracing-gems resource

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Companion source code repository for the book 'Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs' by Eric Haines and Tomas Akenine-Möller. It contains C, CUDA, and HLSL code samples demonstrating ray tracing techniques, released under the MIT license.

Use cases

• learn ray tracing techniques from book examples
• study DXR real-time rendering code samples
• find reference implementations of ray tracing algorithms
• explore CUDA and HLSL shader code for rendering
• supplement reading Ray Tracing Gems with runnable code

When to choose

• you are reading the Ray Tracing Gems book and want its code
• you want MIT-licensed example code for DXR or CUDA ray tracing
• you are studying real-time and high-quality rendering techniques

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready ray tracing engine
• you want a maintained library with ongoing feature development
• you need a general-purpose graphics framework

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

graphics simulation developer-tools graphics tutorials cross-platform windows cpp ray-tracing dxr cuda hlsl book-source-code rendering game-development gpu

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