Raytracing in a Weekend + The week after - In Rust

A simple raytracer based on the Ray Tracing in One Weekend and Ray Tracing: The Next Week by Peter Shirley, written in Rust. The raytracer uses theimage crate to generate the image from a buffer and rayon to add parallelization.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend - Final Render

The Next Week - Final Render

Running

You can run the project by using cargo. It's highly recommended building a release target:

cargo run --release

Viewing renders on the fly

I've modified the rendering procedure to save the currently rendering image each time there's a new frame available. These frames are generated each time one ray has been traced for all available pixels in the image and will progressively create a final image for the number of samples per pixel that is specified in the main.ru file. You can view the generating image by using e.g. sxiv:

sxiv output.png