Nelarius/weekend-raytracer-wgpu

A GPU raytracer inspired by the "Ray Tracing In One Weekend" series of books

README

A WebGPU implementation of Peter Shirley's ray tracing books. An interactive renderer which allows you to play around with the camera and renderer settings in real-time.

Run

$ cargo run --release

Camera and render controls

• Translate the camera using WASD keys.
• Pan the camera by dragging the right mouse button.
• Adjust camera and rendering parameters using UI

Read

More details about the WebGPU implementation is available in the following series of blog posts.

Weekend raytracing with wgpu, part 2

• Adds texture support from "Ray Tracing: The Next Week" and a physically-based sky based on the Hosek-Wilkie model.
• Describes the global texture lookup system implemented in WGSL.

Weekend raytracing with wgpu, part 1

• A straightforward fragment shader implementation of the "Ray Tracing In One Weekend" book.
• Notes on porting RNG, recursive rendering function and more to WGSL.

Asset credits

assets/moon.jpeg

• NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
• https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

assets/earthmap.jpeg

• https://raytracing.github.io/images/earthmap.jpg

assets/sun.jpeg

• https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/