hyperbeam

A (toy) ray tracer in Java

Build

JAR

mvn clean package

Docker

docker build

Run

Java

java -jar ./hyperbeam-single-machine/hyperbeam-single-machine.jar

Kubernetes

kubectl apply -f ./hyperbeam-single-machine/deployment.yaml

Goals

• A better CLI
• Default scene files as CLI options
• Instrumentation
  • Better metrics
  • Comprehensive logging
• Refactoring
  • More idiomatic Java
  • Better variable names
  • Shape is a catch-all in Scene - that should be a better abstraction
• External scene files (OBJ? PLY? STL? Something else?)
  • Will need to add generic triangle meshes
  • ANTLR parsing
• Moving images
  • Dynamic camera
• Distributed cluster (Akka? gRPC? HTTP? SQS?)

Resources

• Ray Tracing in a Weekend
• Ray Tracing: The Next Week