jaythomason / rays

Rays is a toy raytracer implemented in Rust.

Rays

Rays is a toy raytracer implemented in Rust. It is based on "Ray Tracing in One Weekend".

Features

• Renders in real time using the Pixels crate for a performance cross-platform pixel frame buffer.
• Utilizes winit for cross-platform window and event-loop management
• Navigate the scene with WASD (scene is re-rendered when the camera viewpoint changes).
• Multi-threaded using scoped threads with rayon.

Example Output

Up Next

• Fuzzy reflections
• Dielectric materials
• Clean up and refactor abstractions (such as Camera)
• Allow for changing camera direction using mouse input
• Make number of threads used configurable
• Use a dynamic resolution for quickly navigating the scene
• Documentation