Rusttracer

YAR(Yet Another Raytracer).

I like to write raytracers to learn new programming languages. They're fun and are a natural way to learn most OOP languages. Naturally I'm writing a raytracer in rust called rusttracer 🙂.. This is largely a port of my SwiftTracer.

Running it

Make sure you have the rust toolchain installed then run

NUM_THREADS=4 cargo run

To benchmark the implementation first build for release with

cargo build --release

then run

NUM_THREADS=4 BENCHMARK=true target/release/rusttracer

The benchmark is fairly naive and currently just renders the scene setup in main.rs several times.

Renders

This was the first render produced.

This was rendered a while later, at this point there was support for diffuse colors, specular highlights, reflection, colored lights, and super sampling. This is 2560x1440 at 4x4 super sampling