Ray Tracing Introduction from SIGGRAPH
A basic introduction to building a ray tracer, with some pointers to more advanced subjects at the end.
Ray Tracing News Guide
Lots of information on ray tracing. Updated once or twice a year.
RayChase
Fast raytracer that will render random images and display them on the desktop. Tested on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, and Enlightenment. One can also write the output to an image file (to interactively updating web pages for example). Versions exist for FreeBSD and Linux.
Rayshade
An extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on Unix, AmigaOS, OS/2, DOS and Older MacOS.
RayTraccio
A Java ray-tracer running as a applet that wants to be simple and clean but nonetheless has some advanced features.
Raytracing-FAQ
Home of the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing-faq with a online version.
Raytressi
Ray tracing library written in c++ with python bindings. Source code, documentation, galleries, tutorials available. Binaries for Windows, seems to be portable to Unix platforms.
Realistic Image Synthesis Engine
R.I.S.E. is an open source global illumination renderer for producing physically and biologically based photo realistic images. Product specifications, gallery, documentation, and downloads. [Windows, Linux, SunOS, Irix 6.5, Sun Solaris]
Realstorm
A realtime raytracing engine with downloadable benchmark, screenshots and information. Windows 95/98/me/2000.
Realtime Raytracing Maillist
Discuss programming techniques, algorithms and productions related to realtime raytracing, both software or hardware based.
The Rearview Rendering Engine
A game engine aiming towards three dimensional computer graphics which fits both human perception and the shape of the real world better than common polygon engines do. Linux.
The Recursive Ray Tracing Algorithm
Explains how the basic ray tracing algorithm with reflection, transparency and shadows works.
Renderpark
Test bed system for physically based photo-realistic image synthesis, mostly radiosity based. Unix based.
Tachyon Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System
A ray tracer distributed as C source, supporting almost every Unix version, Windows NT and Mac OSX.
vlib
An open source volume modeling and rendering library for unix. The interface facilitates the majority of significant developments in the field to date.
VRay
Advanced raytracing system, supports subsurface scattering, all the standard 3D Studio MAX materials, environments and atmospheres filters. Demo version for download.
YafRay: Yet Another Free RAYtracer
A free raytracing program. News, information, forum and downloads for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.
YASRT Raytracer
A simple raytracer in development, it supports the basic features of a raytracer along with multi-threading. Many platforms are supported (Win32, Linux, and iPAQ).
ACM Crossroads: Ray Tracing
Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
Bagisas
A GUI the YAFRAY raytracer written in Python. Downloads, screenshots, and FAQ. Available for Linux and Windows.
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