prabhask5/real-time-ray-tracing-engine

The project is a classic implementation of a ray tracing engine, likely developed for educational or portfolio purposes. While it includes sophisticated techniques such as Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for spatial partitioning, SIMD for CPU-side performance, and CUDA for GPU acceleration, it lacks any quantitative signals of adoption (0 stars, 0 forks). In the competitive landscape of rendering engines, it faces 'market consolidation risk' from industry giants like Unreal Engine and Unity, and 'displacement' from robust open-source alternatives like Mitsuba 3, NVIDIA's Falcor, or Intel's OSPRay. The defensibility is low because the techniques used are standard graphics programming patterns without a novel architectural moat or community ecosystem. Frontier labs pose low risk because they prioritize high-level simulation frameworks or generative video models over building custom low-level ray tracers from scratch.