Lunora

Lunora is a lightweight graphics engine developed for rendering research and experimental graphics studies. It provides a minimal yet complete rendering pipeline designed to explore real-time rendering techniques without the architectural complexity of large-scale production engines.

Research Experiments

Hemispheric Ambient Lighting vs. Standard Ambient Lighting

A comparative study examining visual and physical differences between hemispheric ambient lighting and standard ambient lighting across different geometries.

https://youtu.be/mM5tJjGJvMU

Sea Simulation (Waves, BRDF)

Core Engine Features

• Real-time 3D mesh loading and rendering

• Modular shader system

• Dynamic window resizing and viewport updates

• Basic lighting models

• 24-bit and 32-bit TGA file support

• Texture mapping and sampling

References and Acknowledgements

Engine Architecture and DirectX Foundations

• Real-Time 3D Rendering with DirectX and HLSL

• Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11

• Introduction to DirectX11 - Frank D. Luna

• Game Engine Architecture

• Real Time Rendering

• https://www.rastertek.com/tutdx11win10.html

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9e8PJskYnI&list=PLv8Ddw9K0JPg1BEO-RS-0MYs423cvLVtj&index=11

Hemishperic Ambient Light

• HLSL Development Cookbook

Sea Simulation (Wave, BRDF)

• https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems/part-i-natural-effects/chapter-1-effective-water-simulation-physical-models

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochoidal_wave

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9q0HNBjT4

• http://filmicworlds.com/blog/everything-has-fresnel/

• https://boksajak.github.io/files/CrashCourseBRDF.pdf

• https://www.rastertek.com/dx11ter07.html