A simple, small personal ray-tracing renderer, based on the Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley, written in Rust.
This is a simple command-line program - no time for GUIs (yet). It uses the hardcoded scene (currently, importing objects/scenes from other files is not implemented) and produces a .ppm image file with the result.
When I get around to it, I'll add some binary releases.
Currently, the application can be run by first installing Rust and Cargo. Then, clone this repository and run cargo build --release at the directory that houses Cargo.toml. Built binaries should be in the newly created /target/release directory. Or you can just clone the repository and run cargo run and it will build and run the (unoptimized debug) build automatically.
Since the program runs in terminal, the binary can be executed with the following parameters.
-o <name>: the name of the output image (without the file extension).-d <width> <height>: resolution of the output image, specified as two separate positive integers.-s <n>: number of samples per pixel. n random locations are sampled in each pixel, and color is calculated and averaged for the pixel. Smaller values result in less anti-aliasing and physical accuracy, but the render is faster.-r <n>: number of ray bounces from surface per ray. More means more accurate render, but is also slower.-t <n>: number of threads used for rendering.-a: if specified, the scene will be rendered as animation.
