CUDA

Noora is a ray tracer began as a deep dive into the algorithms that bring virtual scenes to life. Starting with Peter Shirley’s accessible guides, I built a functional Monte Carlo path tracer—an offline renderer that simulates complex lighting effects like caustics and diffuse inter-reflection by tracing the path of light through a scene. Currently, it is an offline renderer capable of producing images with global illumination, soft shadows, and realistic materials, but I am developing a GPU-accelerated, real-time version to explore the performance and algorithmic trade-offs between offline and interactive rendering. ...