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11 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.

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MantaRay – advanced open-source renderer

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

MantaRay is an advanced renderer.It uses modern rendering techniques to generate photorealistic images of complex scenes.

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Visionaray – C++ ray tracing template library

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Visionaray is a cross-platform ray tracing framework. There’s also a viewer available. It supports a number of 3D file formats.

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Embree – high-performance ray tracing library

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Embree is a high-performance ray tracing library. It contains ray tracing kernels optimized for the latest x86 processors

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POV-Ray – create stunning three-dimensional graphics

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

POV-Ray is a full-featured ray tracer. POV-Ray by itself is a command-line utility that will take scene descriptions.

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McXtrace – Monte Carlo Xray Tracing

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

McXtrace is a general Monte Carlo ray-tracing software for simulation X-ray beamlines and experiments.

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Tachyon – parallel / multiprocessor ray tracing system

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Tachyon is a parallel / multiprocessor ray tracing system.

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YafaRay – montecarlo raytracing engine

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

YafRay is a powerful raytracer. It enables users to create fantastic images and animations of a photorealistic quality.

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Blender – 3D creation suite

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation suite available for many operating systems including Linux.

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BRL-CAD – combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with decades of development and production.

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