Tiny path tracing in 2D
This is a tiny pixelshader-only 2D path tracing engine. In my (little) spare time I’ve been writing a small C++ videogame/real-time engine and am doing some little experiments from time to time.
The fragment shader here does stochastic PT and NEE, and MIS to weigh both. The rays and scene obstacles are all in 2D (line segments and rectangles).
The 2 moving cubes are controlled by a gamepad, and the third cube that shows up in the trajectory between one and the other is a collision-detection test using the classic AABB vs. swept AABB algorithm (minkowski sum, etc…).
UPDATE: More videos were posted on my Twitter account for recreational coding: