Axomae is a 3D rendering engine and raytracer, designed as a foundation to explore advanced rendering techniques .
The goal of the software is to facilitate the implementation of rendering algorithms and display of photorealistic images.
At the same time, the application is intended to be interactive , and customizable.
- Nova: A multi-thread path-tracer , currently implemented to be scalable and distributed on GPU. Nova can be used as an offline renderer, or a pseudo-realtime , more interactive viewer.
- UV-editor
- (Old feature) A normal map generation tool : Will probably be scrapped for an entirely new material generation pipeline.
- .hdr texture viewer.
- PBR rasterizer 3D viewer.
- GCC
- Qt6(Axomae can also build Qt from source , see Installation for details)
- OpenGL
- Glew
- Cuda 12.x + Optix > 8.0.x (Optional)
- Any Linux distribution
$ mkdir Axomae-git
$ cd Axomae-git
$ git clone https://github.com/HamilcarR/Axomae
$ cd Axomae
$ ./scripts/update_deps.sh
Axomae doesn't support in-source builds, so I suggest building in the parent folder: Note that:
- Building Unit tests is enabled by default , set
-DAXOMAE_BUILD_TESTS=OFFif they are not needed. - Building QT from source is enabled by default. It is more reliable to build Axomae and it's dependencies through a unique toolchain, but it will take longer(~15 min on an 8 cores ... Build time optimizations are on the backlog. )
- If nonetheless you can use your own QT system library , use
-DAXOMAE_FROMSOURCE_QT_BUILD=OFF. - For CUDA , use
-DAXOMAE_USE_CUDA=ON.
$ cd Axomae
$ cmake -S . -B ../build -DAXOMAE_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DAXOMAE_FROMSOURCE_QT_BUILD=OFF
$ cd ../build
$ make
- Multiple-Scattering Microfacet Model for Real-Time Image-based Lighting - Carmelo J.Fdez-Aguera
- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation - Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys
- Fast Minimum Storage Ray/Triangle Intersection - Thomas Müller , Ben Trumbore
- Unbiased physically based rendering on the GPU - Dietger van Antwerpen
- Wide BVH Traversal with a Short Stack - K.Vaidyanathan, S.Woop, C.Benthin
- A Generalized Ray Formulation For Wave-Optics Rendering - Shlomi Steinberg, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Benedikt Bitterli, Eugene D'Eon, Ling-Qi Yan, Matt Pharr
- Realtime Ray Tracing on current CPU Architectures - Carsten Benthin
- ALGORITHM 659 Implementing Sobol’s Quasirandom Sequence Generator - Paul Bratley, Bennett L.Fox
- Stochastic Generation of (t, s) Sample Sequences - Andrew Helmer, Per Christensen, Andrew Kensler
- Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs - Samuli Laine, Tero Karras, Timo Aila
- Practical Hash-Based Owen Scrambling - Brent Burley