Ray Tracing Python Packages

pmcx

Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) - Physically accurate and validated GPU ray-tracer

pyluxcore

LuxCore source repository

pyradiance

Python wrapper for the validated RADIANCE ray-tracing engine

optiland

Comprehensive optical design, optimization, and analysis in Python, including GPU-accelerated and differentiable ray tracing via PyTorch.

mantaray

Mantaray: A Rust Package for Ray Tracing Ocean Surface Gravity Waves

eduray

Educational Python ray tracer with Jupyter notebooks for learning ray tracing principles.

aart

An adaptive analytical ray-tracing code to study black hole photon rings - Kerr Raytracing

tofu

Project for an open-source python library for synthetic diagnostics and tomography for Fusion devices

fpt-jax

Fermat path tracing with JAX

vkinline

A tool making it easy to use Vulkan for Python

plotoptix

Data visualisation and ray tracing in Python based on OptiX 9 framework.

barc4beams

barc4beams - barc library for ray traced beams analysis

paos

PAOS, the Physical Optics Simulator, is a fast, modern, and reliable Python package for Physical Optics studies. It implements Physical Optics Propagation in Fresnel approximation and paraxial ray tracing to analyze complex waveform propagation through both generic and off-axes optical systems.

feirays

Vulkan based Monte-Carol Ray-tracing

rayflare

Open-source, integrated optical modelling of complex stacks

audiblelight

A controllable, end-to-end API for soundscape synthesis across ray-traced & real-world measured acoustics

pytissueoptics

Monte Carlo simulations of light transport in complex 3D media.

tracepy

Ray Tracing and Optical Design in Python

pyluxcoretools

LuxCore Python Tools

gradoptics

Differentiable Optics via Ray Tracing

plenoptisign

Light field geometry estimator for plenoptic cameras

cturtle

A ctypes interface to the TURTLE library

c3dp

Automated design of 3D printed collimator optimized for high pressure diffraction

path-tracing

A tiny path tracer accelerated by OpenMP & CUDA.