vorce/zigray

Ray tracer (in a weekend, with zig)

Ray tracing in a weekend with Zig

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html#overview

Something fun to get to know Zig a bit.

❯ zig version
0.9.0-dev.1795+aa61e03f2

Running

zig build run > imageX.ppm
open imageX.ppm

Tests

zig test src/file.zig

Notes

Installing latest Zig with brew: brew install zig --HEAD

format the code: zig fmt src/*.zig

• 4 spaces, for indentation.
• snake_case, for constants and variables.
• pascalCase, for functions.
• CamelCase, for structs

Would be cool to try SDL https://github.com/andrewrk/sdl-zig-demo

Result

Didn't implement glass material yet. But managed to learn a lot about Zig while doing this! Commit log is structured more or less like the RTIOW sections.