RustRay

A simple Rust-based ray tracer

About

This is, first and foremost, a project with which I am learning the ins-and-outs of Rust's features. I seriously doubt I'll be able to get decent performance out of it, but I'll be benchmarking it nonetheless

Goals

• Implement a basic suite of primitives:
  • Plane (TODO)
  • Sphere (IN PROGRESS)
  • Cube (TODO)
  • Triangle (stretch)
• Implement lighting
  • Ambient (TODO)
  • Diffuse (TODO)
  • Specular (TODO)
• Implement surface effects
  • Diffusion (TODO)
  • Reflectivity (TODO)
  • Transparency (stretch)
• Benchmark scenes of increasing complexity each time a "release" is completd.
• Explore NVidia-specific technologies like CUDA to enhance performance (stretch)

Methodology

I'll be benchmarking the generated binary with a consistent set of scenes and hardware.

Hardware used:

• CPU: AMD R7 7800X3D
• RAM: 32GB DDR5
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4090
• OS: Windows 10

I'll also be tagging "versions" as I implement, or revise, a component of the tracer.

Acknowledgements

Whenever I use a specific online resource to derive a math formula or optimization trick, I'll leave a link directly in the comments of the relevent code. Please take a read. For all other, more general references, please see below.

• The Rust Book
• Advanced Graphics, University of Cambridge