Albedo

Albedo is a work-in-progress raytracing ecosystem written in Rust and leveraging wgpu native and WebGPU.

• Runs everywhere: Chrome/Firefox/Safari and native
• No RT cores / vendor-specific raytracing hardware required

Originally open sourced on GitHub, the project is being continued as closed source for the time being.

Runtime

Real-time path tracing runtime, running natively or the web. Try it:

Works on Firefox, Safari, and Chromium browsers.

Prefer Firefox or Canary, as Chrome and Safari suffer performance issues.

Nitty-gritty details:

• Zero-copy file format
• Custom dynamic data-oriented scene format
  • Not a general-purpose ECS
• GPU-driven rendering

Editor

Native application used to package scenes for use with the runtime.

While still minimalistic, it is built around the concept that processing files and packaging should be threaded, fast, and painless.

Editor image compression during asset import

Packaging a scene is typically in the milliseconds range

Libraries

While the demo showcases real-time path tracing and screen-space denoising, the ecosystem exposes:

• Intersection, shading, and denoising kernels
• Bindless-style textures and materials management

Use Cases

• Baking GI (probes, lightmaps)
• Baking ambient occlusion

• Real-time ambient occlusion
• Real-time shadows
• GPU Picking

Albedo low-level raytracing library used for GPU picking

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