Vainmoinen is a project that has been developed for my bachelor thesis "Software Renderer Accelerated by CUDA Technology". As can be easily concluded from the thesis's title, Vainmoinen is a software renderer that can use CUDA technology to speed up the rendering. The renderer supports a very small selected subset of OpenGL/Direct3D functionality. Here's the list:

• vertex transformation
• triangle culling and clipping
• object-order rasterization and shading with depth buffering
• texture mapping supporting bilinear filtering and mip-mapping (not available for CUDA renderer)

Downloads:

• Vainmoinen (includes sources, project files for Visual C++ 2008, third-party dependencies, samples)
• bachelor thesis "Software Renderer Accelerated by CUDA Technology"
• bachelor thesis defence slides

Remarks:

• CUDA v3.2 was used during development. CUDA v4.0 depicts some problems during compilation