Software Rasterizer

Created on: January 2026

Team size: 1

Time frame: 1 month

Tools used: Jai

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A CPU-based rasterizer built in Jai, following the tinyrenderer guide by Dmitry V. Sokolov.

The goal of this project is to understand the graphics pipeline, from raw vertices to a shaded image without the help of the GPU.

Features

• Pipeline: Perspective-correct interpolation, projection matrix with infinite depth.
• Lighting & Post: Phong shading, HDR (ACES tonemapping), and Gamma correction.
• Mapping: Tangent-space Normal maps, bilinear texture filtering and handmade .obj file loading.
• Output: Writes to PNG via stb_image_write.

You can see the source of the project on GitLab.