Features

The following features are planed:

• IO
  • OBJ file loader
  • MTL file loader
  • OBJ file exporter
  • Gamma correction
• geometry
  • buffered mesh
  • triangle soup
  • triangle mesh
  • quad mesh
  • quad dominant mesh
  • half-edge mesh
  • built-in geometries
    • plane
    • cube
  • geometry processing algorithms
    • smooth normals
    • curvature
    • quadric error simplification
    • melax simplification
    • uv parameterization
    • LOD
    • Tesselation
• rendering facilities:
  • perspective and orthographic camera
  • orbit control
  • scene graph
  • BVH acceleration, morton coding, cache coherence optimization
  • primitive pass
  • shader programming
  • deferred shading pass
  • abstract concurrent screen pass
  • depth test and z-buffer pass
  • wireframe drawing (Bresenham algorithm)
  • rasterization pass
    • clipping
    • backface culling
    • viewfrustum culling
    • occlusion culling
    • perspective correct interpolation
  • ray tracing
  • tiled rendering
  • hybrid rendering
  • tiled and clustered forward rendering
  • visibility buffer
  • command buffer?
  • transparency
  • raster order group
  • anti-aliasing pass
    • MSAA
    • TAA?
  • denoising
  • Tangent space normal mapping
  • Physically-based rendering (PBR)
  • Alpha testing
  • Alpha blending
  • Skeletal animation
  • Rendering statistics (TODO: what should we do about this?)
  • GUI window
• texturing
  • filters
    • linear
    • bilinear
    • trilinear
    • barycentric
    • cubic
    • custom
  • isotropic mipmap
  • anisotropic mipmap
  • arbitrary texture size
  • texture formats (RGBA, BGRA, ...)

• material
  • basic material
  • Blinn-Phong material
  • Diffuse material
  • Lambertian material
  • Glossy material
  • Micofacet material
  • Physically-based materials

• lighting
  • point light
  • directional light
  • area light
  • spot light
• local shading
  • shadow mapping
• global illumination
  • ambient occlusion
    • screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO)
    • horizon-based ambient occlusion (HBAO)