Welcome to my personal hobby project where I embark on a journey to better understand how Physically Based Rendering (PBR) works.
You can follow along my steps on my blog if you wish.
This contains a rendering tool that can run on the GPU and create realistic images of various scenes such as this:
- Create a venv
- Install python dependencies
- conan install . --build=missing
- cmake --preset conan-release
- cmake --build --preset conan-release
- build/Release/renderer/devil_ray_renderer
I use AI tools for multiple purposes throughout this project:
- Idea discovery: When I face a problem I'm not knowledgeable in, I sometimes ask an AI assistant about the established algorithms and where to find more information about them.
- Tests: Tests are super important to ensure the whole project doesn't go crumbling down when I update any part of it. However, my goal with this project is to learn about algorithms and math, so I use AI code generation often to write tests.
I review and fix all AI-generated code before committing it, which seems to be essential, given the glaring mistakes even the best models tend to make every now and then.
What I DO NOT use AI for is writing the actual algorithms in question, since that would defeat the purpose of my endeavor.
All AI-generated code is marked with a disclaimer on top of their respective files.