MiniLight

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What is MiniLight?

MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines). There are translations into several programming languages.

It is a command-line application. It reads a simple text model file and writes a PPM image file. Open-source C, C++, Scheme, Scala, OCaml, Lua, Python, Ruby, and Adobe Flex for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

The rendering features are:

Monte-carlo path-tracing transport
Emitter sampling
Progressive refinement
RGB light
Diffuse materials
Triangle modelling primitives
Octree spatial index
Pin-hole ‘lens’
Ward linear tone-mapping

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MiniLight information

Developed byHarrison Ainsworth
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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English

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monte-carlo
physically-based
global-illumination
Python
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