A tiny, one-file, Monte Carlo path tracer written in a few hundred lines of Ruby. The source accompanied a short talk I gave as an introduction to Ray Tracing (presentation slides available here). The hope is that it provides a simple to understand example. The image below is the rendered output at 1024spp.
- Monte Carlo method
- Global illumination
- Diffuse, and specular BRDFs
- Ray-sphere intersection
- Soft shadows
- Anti-aliasing
- Modified Cornell box
- PNG image format output
- Progressive saving
$ ruby tiny-path.rb --help
Usage: tiny-path.rb [options]
-w, --width=width Image width
-h, --height=height Image height
-s, --spp=spp Samples per pixel
-o, --output=filename Output filename
-p, --[no-]progressive-save Save file while rendering
To render the scene at 16 samples per pixel, run the following command,
$ ruby tiny-path.rb -s 16
It will save a file in the same directory titled output.png.
Julian Villella
Tiny Path is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.