Raytracer

This is a very simple raytracer that supports STL files, multithreading and (soft) shadows. With that being said, it is still a work in progress.

Reasoning behind this project

Rendering objects in games and animated videos has always been dark magic for me and with realtime raytracing coming to relatively new GPUs, I finally decided start learning about rendering and the math behind it.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

You will need to have the following programs installed on your system:

1. Rust

Installing

Clone the repository to your local machine

git clone https://gitlab.com/CubeArrow/raytracer.git

Change directory to Cubelang

cd raytracer

Run the program

./cargo run --package raytracer --bin raytracer

Built With

• Rust - The programming language
• Theadpool - A threadpool for multithreading

Examples

Mengers Sponge M₂

The Utah Teapot

Eiffel Tower

Feathers - The first image rendered with mapped materials

Model and material taken from a model by skartemka

Resources

These are very useful resources that I have used to get started with this project

• Ray Tracing in One Weekend - The article I started with when creating this project.
• Notes on efficient Raytracing - An article that explains how bounding volume hierarchies can be used to make raytracing more efficient.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details