readme.md

This is my take on the great Ray tracing in one weekend series.

It is written in TypeScript.

Features

• grids, BVH+SAH, BIH+SAH
• multithreaded rendering
• loading glTF models
• IBL
• PBR
• ACES tone mapping

See it in action

https://mixtur.github.io/raytracing-weekend/

Run locally

 # you'll need node.js and npm installed in your system
 npm install 
 npm start # serves the raytracer page on 0.0.0.0:8080

Acknowledgments

1. This wouldn't be possible without the great Ray tracing in one weekend series.
2. PBR is implemented using these papers
   • https://media.disneyanimation.com/uploads/production/publication_asset/48/asset/s2012_pbs_disney_brdf_notes_v3.pdf except that geometry factor uses alpha = roughness^2, not alpha = (0.5 + 0.5 * roughness)^2
   • https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/publications/EGSR07-btdf.pdf - the actual formula for geometry factor is taken from here
   • https://jcgt.org/published/0007/04/01/paper.pdf - took Jacobian of the reflection operator from there
3. Ported RGBE parser from our in-house 3d engine, as well as some math
   • AFAIK the source code is not public now, but you can take a look at some demos here - https://webgears.app/engine
4. glTF models are taken from here
   • https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Assets