Renderer is a command-line, open source application which allows interactive 3D visualization of triangle meshes.
The renderer allows switching between rasterizing and raytracing in real-time – so one navigates quickly with the rasterizers, and requests a raytracing when the viewpoint is interesting.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- 3D transformations (from world coordinates, to camera-space/light-space coordinates).
- Point rendering (vertex-based or triangle-based).
- Anti-aliased lines rendering.
- Gouraud shading (complete Phong equation calculated per vertex).
- Phong shading (complete Phong equation calculated per pixel).
- Z-Buffer hidden surface removal.
- Shadow mapping.
- Soft shadow mapping.
- Raytracing, with shadows, reflections, refractions, ambient occlusion and anti-aliasing.
- Portable display and keyboard handling through libSDL.
- Supported 3D formats: .3ds, .tri, and .ply.
Website: www.thanassis.space/renderer.html
Support: GitHub
Developer: Thanassis Tsiodras
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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Related Software
| Renderers | |
|---|---|
| Blender | 3D computer graphics software toolset that excels in many areas |
| Cycles | Physically based production renderer developed by the Blender project |
| Mitsuba | Extensible rendering framework written in portable C++ |
| LuxCoreRender | Physically based and unbiased rendering engine |
| Malt | Fully customizable real-time rendering framework |
| Art of Illusion | 3D-modeler, renderer and raytracer |
| appleseed | Physically-based renderer targeted at production rendering |
| Renderer | Interactive 3D visualization of triangle meshes |
| Radiance | Suite of tools for performing lighting simulation |
| MiniLight | Minimal global illumination renderer |
| MantaRay | Advanced renderer which uses modern rendering techniques |
| Aqsis | 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard |
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