Ray Tracer

Introduction

Simple Ray Tracer implementation written in Rust.

The goal of the project is to learn/explore Rust, its ecosystem, and develop something new, complex and fun.

Getting Started

Tests

Each component of the project is fully covered with unit tests. To run tests:

• cargo test to run tests

Build

Use one of the following commands to build:

• cargo build - debug target
• cargo build --release - release target

Run

• cargo run --release - run release target. Current implementation generates .ppm files. They can be opened with default tools on MacOS. I have not tested it on other platforms yet.

References

• The structure and implementation loosely follows The Ray Tracer Challenge book by Jamis Buck. The book provides a very good introduction into how a ray tracer works leaving implementation details to the reader.
• Many reflection and refraction formulas are taken from here

TODO

• More RT related stuff:
  • More geometries: cubes, triangles, cylinders. Generalisation.
  • Complex/Solid geometries support
  • OBJ files
• CLI
• Parallel implementation w/ Rayen