RRaytracing - Rust Raytracing

RRaytracing is minimal raytracing implementation with both CLI and GUI user interfaces. RRaytracing implementation follows Ray Tracing In One Weekend book.

Features

Three different materials with variable characteristics
1. Lambertian
2. Metal
3. Glass (dielectric)
Variable anti-aliasing amount
Defocus blur
Positionable camera (currently hardcoded position)

Project structure

Project uses single monorepo whichs hosts 3 workspaces. Workspaces are shared, gui and renderer. Shared contains common interfaces and datatypes which can be used to communicate with renderer. Gui is the graphical user interface project and renderer is the machine which takes scene in and outputs an image.

Ideas for further development

Unit tests
Benchmarks
Performance improvement
Multithreading
Replace "unwrap()" calls with actual error handling
Changing scene from GUI
Moving camera in GUI
Adding textures
Making scene variable from GUI (+possibly saving/loading scenes)

Usage

Project can be built/ran with standard cargo commands.

cargo build --release // Will create executables for both CLI and GUI in target/release folder
cargo run --bin gui // Running gui in debug mode
cargo run --bin renderer // Running CLI in debug mode
cargo run --bin renderer -- -h // To see CLI options

Requirements (build & dev)