Ray Tracing Python Packages

pyradiance

Python wrapper for the validated RADIANCE ray-tracing engine

pmcx

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

optiland

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

pyluxcore

LuxCore source repository

optiland-gui-zh

optiland-zh汉化版

seam-studio

SEAM: Scene-to-Electromagnetic Authoring and Mapping for Wireless Digital Twins

deeplens-core

Differentiable optical lens simulator for end-to-end computational imaging.

mantaray

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

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

deadline-cloud-for-vred

VRED is Autodesk's 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software for automotive design. This repository provides an AWS Deadline Cloud submitter that creates OpenJD jobs for VRED, making it easier to render automotive visualization workloads at scale in the cloud.

plotoptix

Data visualisation and ray tracing in Python based on OptiX 9.1 framework.

fpt-jax

Fermat path tracing with JAX

blender-optics-mcp

Blender add-on to design, simulate, align & render optical setups — live beam tracing, kinematic-mount auto-alignment, polarization (Jones/Stokes), interference fringes, Gaussian beams, wavelength optics, and a real-vendor component library. Driveable from the UI or a headless optics_api (AI/MCP-friendly).

paos

PAOS is a fast, modern, and reliable Python package for Physical Optics studies.

barc4beams

barc4beams - barc library for ray traced beams analysis

vkinline

A tool to make it easy to use Vulkan from Python. An interface for computation and off-screen rendering.

pytissueoptics

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

eduray

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

rayflare

Open-source, integrated optical modelling of complex stacks

rednoise

A from-scratch C++23 software renderer: rasteriser, Whitted ray tracer, Monte-Carlo path tracer, photon mapper, radiosity, bidirectional & Metropolis GI, and a real-time OpenCL GPU path tracer. Renders the Cornell box every way there is.

waveray

Fast nearshore spectral wave transformation: backward ray-traced transfer operators with refraction, shoaling, bottom friction and depth-limited breaking

feirays

Reusable Vulkan based ray-tracing library

audiblelight

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