Parallel Monte Carlo Path Tracing

CS338 Parallel Processing final project. A path tracer implemented sequentially and parallelized on the GPU with the CUDA computing platform.

Implementation based on Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

To do:

• Construct large input scene to use for all testing
• Collect benchmark performance data from sequential program
• Collect performance data from 4 different block size configurations

Extensions:

• Assign more computational work per thread
• Reduced branching
• Metropolis light transport
• Importance sampling