ray-tracer

My implementation of the Ray Tracer Challenge with the focus on learning Rust and hardware acceleration.

Chapter 5 Demo - Red Shadow

Description:

• create a unit sphere at origin
• cast a ray originating from (0, 0, -5) at a 7 by 7 canvas at (x, y, 10)
• for each pixel, color the pixel red if the ray intersects the sphere; otherwise, color the pixel black

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Chapter 6 Demo - The Phong Refletcion Model

Description:

• take the previous demo
• set the material color of the sphere
• add a point light source
• for each pixel, if the ray hits the sphere, compute the lighting at the intersection; make the pixel black otherwise

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Chapter 7 Demo - Worlds and Cameras

Description:

• build a world with ball shapes in it
• add the lighting
• place the camera at a custom location
• render the scene using the camera properties

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Chapter 8 Demo - Shadows

Description:

• add shadows to the world above

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Chapter 9 Demo - Plane

Description:

• remove the squashed spheres that simulate a room from the previous demo
• add the xz plane at origin

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Chapter 10 Demo - Patterns

Description:

• add material patterns to the previous demo

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Chapter 11 Demo - Reflections and Refractions

Description:

• build a world with reflective walls and a ball inside

• build a world with a bunch of spheres including one transparent and slightly reflective

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Chapter 12 Demo - Cubes

Description:

• build a world out of cubes

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