Acknowledgements

Chrono Batch Render is built on these open-source projects.

• Vulkan Headers, volk and Vulkan Memory Allocator for the GPU layer
• Slang for shaders
• DLPack for sharing tensors with PyTorch, JAX, Warp and NumPy
• nanobind for the Python bindings
• OpenEXR and Imath, stb, Basis Universal and bc7enc_rdo for images and textures
• NanoVDB for volumes
• nlohmann/json for JSON
• {fmt} for text formatting
• tinyobjloader for OBJ import
• MikkTSpace for tangents
• NVTX for profiling
• OpenUSD for scene interchange
• Dear ImGui and GLFW for the viewer
• GoogleTest for tests
• Google Benchmark for benchmarks

Chrono Batch Render also leverages ideas from these renderers and projects:

• Madrona for batch rendering across many worlds
• Chrono::Sensor for sensor simulation inside Chrono
• Cycles, Mitsuba 3 and PBRT for physically based and spectral rendering
• OpenUSD and Omniverse Fabric for the schema-based scene
• ovrtx for zero-copy interops and USD-based rendering
• nvpro-samples for Vulkan ray tracing and cluster LOD
• PANGU for planetary and asteroid surface simulation
• IRIS for real-time, closed-loop rendering of space sensors
• CosmoScout VR for planet-scale scenes and solar-system visualization
• three-geospatial for atmospheres and clouds
• Isaac Lab and Newton for tiled cameras in robot learning