EDXRay

EDXRay is a physically based render independently developed by Edward Liu. It is built with modern C++. Aside from many low level optimizations, parallelism is exploited on both thread level and instruction level so it’s highly performant. It includes many state of the art algorithms published in recent years in light transport simulation, material modelling, sampling and reconstruction, camera models as well as participating media.

The source code of EDXRay is highly self-contained and does not depend on any external library other than EDXUtil, which is a utility library developed by Edward Liu.

EDXRay is currently built and tested only on Windows platform. Developer using Visual Studio 2015 should be able to build the source code immediately after syncing. Porting to Linux or macOS should not be difficult since it there is no external dependency.

List of Features

Integrators

• Volumetric Path Tracing
• Bidirectional Path Tracing with Multiple Importance Sampling
• Multiplexed Metroplis Light Transport

Materials

• Lambertion Diffuse
• Smooth Conductor
• Smooth Dielectric
• Rough Conductor
• Rough Dielectric
• Disney BRDF
  • Layered Material with Up to 2 Specular Coats
  • Cloth
• Subsurface Scattering
  • BSSRDF based on Normalized Diffusion
  • Participating Media
• Normal Map
• Roughness Map
• Alpha Test

Acceleration Structure

• Optimized BVH traversal and Triangle Intersection with SSE
• Multi-threaded BVH Construction
• Embree can be optionally used (Introduce external dependency)

Light Source

• Point Light
• Directional Light
• Polygonal Area Light
• Procedural Sky Light with Hosek Model
• HDR Probe

Camera Models

• Thin Lens Model
• Fisheye Camera
• Realistic Camera Parameters
• Arbitrarily Shaped Bokeh
• Vignette and Cateye effect

Sampler

• Independent Sampler
• Sobol Sequence with Screen Space Index Enumeration

Gallery

Simulated depth of field, vignette and cateye effect

Simulated super wide fish eye lens

Focal length 14mm wide angle shot

Caustics simulated with bidirectional path tracing

Wooden floor modeled with Disney BRDF

Rough glass modeled GGX

Rough metal modeled GGX

Car paint modeled with Disney BRDF

Gold

Jade modeled with participating media

Jade dragon modeled with BSSRDF

Side by side comparison between BSSRDF (left) and participating media (right)

Smoke rendered with participating media