Simple raytracer for exploring programming languages. Rust edition.
Based on David Breen's CS636 Class assignments and my own previous Haskell implementation cs636-raytracer.
For fun. To learn new languages, and how usable they are for a heavily computational program. Rust in this case.
To run the examples, you need some .smf model files in the models/
directory. The example model files are originally from
https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~deb39/Classes/CS586/Models/
Use the following command to download them all:
wget -r -np -nd -A smf https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~deb39/Classes/CS586/Models/
cargo build --release
cargo run scenes/scene0.json --release
Running without --release will take significantly longer due to the lack of
optimization.
Output image will be written to the file specified in the scene0.json file.
Wrote file "scene0.png"
As of 0.2.0, scenes can also be written in Python by constructing a data
structure similar to the json input and passing it to a render function. This
uses the scene data structure, ray tracer C library, and Python utility
functions as a small embedded domain-specific language (EDSL) and has the
advantage of being able to generate parts of the scene programmatically.
python scenes/scene1.py
Tagged versions correspond to assignments. For example, 0.1.0 implements the
requirements for assignment 1. master may contain a partially completed next
version at any time.
The current version is: 0.3.0