README.md

Ray Tracer

An experimental Ray Tracer built following The Ray Tracer Challenge¹ in Rust with a few of my own additions and optimizations leveraging multi-threading and caching matrix operations.

Building

cargo build --release

Example Renders

There are a handful of example renders which are built into the ray tracer. List them using --help. Some renders can take a long time so it's also recommended to specify as many threads as you can spare with --threads.

Glass Pawn ²

./target/release/ray_tracer --example="pawn"

Utah Tea Set ³⁴

./target/release/ray_tracer --example="tea set"

Book Cover ¹

./target/release/ray_tracer --example="cover"

References

Footnotes

1. The Ray Tracer Challenge ↩ ↩²

2. Pawn ↩

3. Tea Cup ↩

4. Utah Tea Pot ↩