This is the source for a basic raytracer written in rust. It uses Raytracing in one weekend as a jumping-off point, but has some additional features like parallelization on the render loop, progress indicators, and cli flags to configure the render.
A starter scene is included in src/main.rs, and running make render will render it to image.ppm using
the default settings. Some examples of things that can be tweaked:
- Image resolution
- Aspect ratio
- Max recursion depth for ray scattering
- Amount of samples per pixel
- Camera focal disk
In the future, I plan to add:
- Scene deserialization from YAML/Binary format
- Other primitives
- Better texture support