psychopath_cpp | Old C version of Psychopath

psychopath_cpp is a C++ library. psychopath_cpp has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Psychopath is a path tracer, aimed at rendering animations and VFX for film. It is currently still in an early prototyping stage of development. You can view a brief video of some animations rendered with it in [this (now somewhat out-dated) video] The long-term goals of Psychopath are to support efficient global illumination rendering of scenes that are significantly larger than available RAM and/or that contain procedural elements that need to be generated on-the-fly during rendering. The approach that Psychopath takes to enable this is to try to access the scene data in as coherent a fashion as possible via breadth-first ray tracing, allowing the cost of HDD access, expensive procedurals, etc. to be amortized over large batches of rays. In its current state this principle and its effectiveness are demonstrated by by refining geometry to sub-pixel microgeometry on the fly during the rendering process, somewhat analogous to the Reyes rendering architecture. Even with geometry caching completely disabled, Psychopath is able to render using this technique very efficiently.