Running Ton should be as easy as:
git clone https://github.com/WilliamASumner/ton
cargo run --release
Running with the --release flag is optional but will probably make it run faster. All output is directed to the output/test.png file, though this will probably change.
Ton is my personal exploration project on raytracing and hopefully later path tracing. The main goal is to write everything I can from scratch, so that I understand how it all works from the ground up, to learn Rust in the process, and so that I can practice managing a larger project. I'd also like to use it to render some fluid-solver output eventually but that is a project for another day. Though I'm trying my best to keep things efficient and clear, I'm absolutely sure I will miss some optimizations and idiomatic Rust patterns, so if you're annoyed by that or just want to help, feel free to shoot me a pull request.
A lot of what I've written so far is found in a few great books:
- Physically Based Rendering by Pharr, Humphreys and Jakob (I would highly recommend this one, it covers pretty much everything, though it can get technical)
- Fundamentals of Computers Graphics by Steve Marschner and Peter Shirley
- More to come later...