This library is a thin wrapper around Embree 3.
As much as possible, it tries to emulate the C API usage. The main point of this is to avoid creating a new API which would obfuscate the usage of the C API. Ideally, it should be easy to read the Embree documentation or examples, and translate things straightforwardly to equivalent Python code.
A secondary goal is to provide easy interoperability with numpy.
NOTE: very little of the library is wrapped so far, but this library is being developed in a way that should make it as easy as possible to wrap more functionality as necessary. If you find that a function that you'd like to use isn't wrapped, please create an issue or feel free to wrap it on your own and submit a pull request.
If you install Embree using the MSI from Embree's website, the Embree
binaries, headers, and libraries will all be installed to C:\Program Files\Intel\Embree3 by default.
As an example, to compile using MSYS2 from the MinGW 64-bit console,
after cding to the root directory of this repository, it should be
possible to run:
$ python setup.py build_ext -I/c/Program\ Files/Intel/Embree3/include -L /c/Program\ Files/Intel/Embree3/lib
$ python setup.py install
to successfully compile and install python-embree.