Ray Tracing Courses and Certifications

The Cherno

Rendering Multiple Objects - Ray Tracing Series

Learn to structure a scene, move multiple spheres, and adapt a C++ renderer to render several objects with ray tracing.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cherno

Adding an Interactive 3D Camera System - Ray Tracing Series

Implement an interactive 3D camera for a C++ ray tracer by caching per-pixel ray directions and integrating a Camera class.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cherno

Lighting and Shading - Ray Tracing Series

Explains how a ray tracer uses sphere intersections, surface normals, and floating-point color values to calculate lighting and shading.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cherno

How Ray Casting and Sphere Intersection Works - Ray Tracing Series

Implement ray casting by visualizing sphere intersections, hit coordinates, normals, lighting, and ray-tracing optimizations.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cherno

Rays and Spheres- The Math! - Ray Tracing Series

Learn how lines, rays, spheres, and quadratic equations determine ray-sphere intersections for a ray tracer.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Arm Software Developers

Realistic Mobile Graphics with Optimized Ray Tracing

Explore Vulkan Ray Tracing for mobile 3D graphics, focusing on hybrid rendering techniques and optimizations for enhanced realism in shadows and reflections without sacrificing performance.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Arm Software Developers

Ray Tracing: Delivering Immersive Gaming Experiences on Arm GPUs

Explore ray tracing on Arm GPUs: learn techniques for realistic shadows, reflections, and refractions in mobile gaming. Discover Vulkan APIs, optimization tips, and best practices for immersive experiences.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

X.Org Foundation

Ray Tracing for Adreno GPUs on Turnip - Building Bounded Volume Hierarchy Trees

Dive into GPU ray tracing acceleration with Turnip, exploring BVH tree construction and implementation challenges for Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Adreno GPUs.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Geometry and Scene Building in our C++ Ray Tracer

Build a C++ ray tracer from sphere intersections and normal shading to multi-object scenes, camera controls, and reusable math utilities.

• CodeSignal
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Realistic Rendering Techniques for the C++ Ray Tracer

Implement realistic rendering in a C++ ray tracer with antialiasing, physically based materials, refraction, and gamma-corrected lighting.

• CodeSignal
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Advanced Camera and Final Rendering of the C++ Ray Tracer

Extends a C++ ray tracer with camera controls and depth of field, then builds a varied-material scene for a polished final render.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sebastian Lague

Optimizing a Ray Tracer by Building a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH)

Optimize ray tracing performance by building a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH). Learn techniques like GPU-friendly data structures, iterative traversal, and surface area heuristics to render complex scenes efficiently.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nvidia

Light Resampling in Practice with RTXDI - Part 2

Practical RTXDI techniques use ReSTIR’s spatiotemporal resampling to render scenes with millions of ray-traced lights.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nvidia

Rendering Games with Millions of Ray Traced Lights

Explains how importance sampling and ReSTIR make ray-traced lighting with millions of lights practical for games.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

X.Org Foundation

Improving the World's Slowest Raytracer - RADV Implementation Progress

Dive into the evolution of RADV's raytracing implementation, exploring performance improvements, compatibility expansions, and current capabilities in Mesa 23.2's graphics rendering system.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video