C# Ray Tracer

A multithreaded raytracer written in C# by following the Ray Tracing In One Weekend Book.

Current Features:

• Global Illumination
• Multiple material types:
  • Lambertian
  • Metal
  • DiffuseLight
• Antialiasing
• Multithreaded progressive rendering pipeline (using .NET's Tasks)
• Random ray bouncing with pixel multisampling to best estimate colour.
• A UI made with C# Raylib and RayGUI bindings

Compiling and Running

The project was built and tested with dotnet version 9.0.110.

To run the project in Visual Studio click on File > New > Project From Existing Code.

If working in VSCode or a different text editor, simply run dotnet run (with -c Release flag to remove debugging slugishness).

Render Showcases