Ray-tracer

This is a very simple ray tracer that can render PNG files from a YAML-based scene description.

Features

• Different geometric primitives: spheres, cubes, planes
• Procedurally generated textures: plain color, stripes, checker board
• Materials with different optical properties based on Phong shaders
• Configurable light sources
• YAML-based file format to describe scenes.

Usage

You can build the ray tracer with Rust's cargo build tool, by calling

cargo build --release

(The --release flag is recommended as it drastically increases the speed of the renderer.)

You can play with the example scene given in test.yaml. Render it into a PNG image with

cargo run --release test.yaml

License

This program is licensed under the GPL version 3 or (at your option) any later version.

The text of the GPL version 3 can be found in the LICENSES directory.