Implementation in Rust of a ray tracer following The Ray Tracer Challenge book.
The renderer is a ray tracer, which means it simulates the physics of light by tracing the path of light rays around your scene.
Each exciting chapter presents a bite-sized piece of the puzzle, building on earlier chapters and setting the stage for later ones.
Requirements are given language-agnostically; it’s up to you to translate them into tests and code using whatever language you prefer.
When the project is complete, you’ll look back and realize you’ve built an entire system test-first!
- Chapter 1 - Tuples, Points, and Vectors
- Chapter 2 - Drawing on a Canvas
- Chapter 3 - Matrices
- Chapter 4 - Matrix Transformations
- Chapter 5 - Ray-Sphere Intersections
- Chapter 6 - Light and Shading
- Chapter 7 - Making a Scene
- Chapter 8 - Shadows
- Chapter 9 - Planes
- Chapter 10 - Patterns
- Chapter 11 - Reflection and Refraction
- Chapter 12 - Cubes
- Chapter 13 - Cylinders
- Chapter 14 - Groups
- Chapter 15 - Triangles
- Chapter 16 - Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
- Chapter 17 - Next Steps
- A1 - Rendering the Cover Image
- chapter 10 on patterns.
The code can be profiled to remove bottlenecks and keep the rendering fast as features are added.
cargo install flamegraph to install https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph
then inside the project directory we can profile cargo run --release by running cargo flamegraph
Latest flamegraph.