Photon-v2 is a rendering engine made out of my love for computer graphics. A rendering engine is what takes geometrical descriptions and material properties of a 3-D scene as input, and outputs a 2-D image of that scene from a specific point of view. In layman’s terms, it is like taking a photograph, except the scene and the camera are both computer simulated. This project is still actively being developed, and more features are expected to come.

• Visit the documentation website for more information.
• We also have a feature overview page that is more thorough and up-to-date than this site.
• Full source code available.

Technical Showreel

Please click the following image to watch the technical showreel for Photon Renderer on YouTube:

Research

It is recommended to use the master branch for your research, as master is guaranteed to have critical bugs fixed and is not as volatile as develop. For bleeding-edge features or bugfixes develop can be a good choice.

If you use Photon in your research project, you are hightly encouraged to cite it using the following BibTeX template:

@software{Photon,
    Title  = {Photon renderer},
    Author = {Tzu-Chieh Chang},
    Year   = {2016--2024},
    Note   = {https://github.com/TzuChieh/Photon-v2}
}