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Software 3D renderer using only the CPU. Features OBJ model import, depth buffering, texture mapping with bilinear filtering, lighting (ambient, diffuse, specular), and smooth shading.
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README.md

Software 3D Renderer

Features

  • OBJ model import
  • Depth buffering
  • Texture mapping with bilinear filtering
  • Lighting (ambient, diffuse, specular)
  • Smooth shading

Goals

Implement basic GPU pipeline in software

To best learn what a GPU is doing, I wanted to recreate the functionality of the GPU in software. It’s not anywhere near as fast as a GPU of course, but it’s not slow either (for a single model that is relatively low-poly).

Good cache performance

The biggest bottleneck of modern CPU performance is latency between memory and the CPU, so I tried to use spatial and temporal locality to keep data in the cache. Although I chose to go for array-of-structs instead of struct-of-arrays, the cache miss rate is fairly low.

Minimal libraries

I created my own very basic OBJ loader (rather than use tinyobj) to better understand how OBJ files are constructed, along with their respective MTL files. I also wrote my own linear algebra functions and classes (rather than use glm) to better understand the low-level math operations.

Demo