grishy / rust-raytracing

🎨✨ A weekend-initiated project. Create .gif using the Ray Tracing.

Rust Ray Tracer

Weekend project to learn Rust by implementing a ray tracer. The project is based on the book Ray Tracing in One Weekend. The book is a great introduction to ray tracing and the code is written in C++. Also I after finishing the book I found the Rust version of the book.

Additional features

• Multithreading
• Render to PNG
• Capability to render a sequence of images
• Progress bar

Result

Final scene (GIF)

Parameters for GIF

Parameter	Value
Image size	600x337
Samples per pixel	200
Max depth	20
Frames	88
CPU (Macbook 2019 i9)	16
Render time	4h 40m 30s

Final scene png

Render scene

❯ cargo run --release
   Compiling rust-raytracing v0.1.0
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 1.69s
     Running `target/release/rust-raytracing`
⠄ [00:02:05] [########################>--------------------------] 440371/810000 (2m)

How to generate GIF

To generate a GIF from a sequence of images, you will need to install gifski. You can do this with the following command:

❯ brew install gifski
❯ gifski -o render.gif render/image_*.png

License

© 2024 Sergei G.
This project is GPL-3.0 licensed.