On a Sunday afternoon about a couple of months ago, when Ye (https://github.com/k-ye) and I were on our way back from a long week of travel, we decide

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2022-05-13 07:30:16

On a Sunday afternoon about a couple of months ago, when Ye (https://github.com/k-ye) and I were on our way back from a long week of travel, we decided to do something to relax on the train ( to kill time). Since we happened to mention Minecraft and MagicaVoxel, we decided to do a Hackathon, where we use Taichi Lang to create a GPU path tracing voxel renderer. Soon, before we were back home, we had our prototype:

Taichi Lang is embedded in Python and it runs on any operating system and can easily interact with Python. As far as I know, apart from Taichi Lang, there's no such tooling in the Python ecosystem for generating GPU path tracing voxel renders. With Taichi Lang, one can easily create such a renderer (https://github.com/taichi-dev/voxel-challenge/blob/main/renderer.py) in around 300 lines of code.

When finishing off the program, we became aware of something more serious: It is much easier for an experienced graphics developer to code a path tracing renderer than to come up with a scene setting for a beautiful image. Considering the huge amount of work involved in developing the UI, if we could only edit voxels one by one, it would take ages to get the intended results!