python_ray_tracing

Source: Ray Tracing in One Weekend

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

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About:

This is still very much a work in progress, but I am trying to recreate the code in "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" 100% in Python.

To-Do:

Chapters in "Ray Tracing In One Weekend":

• Output an Image
• The Vector3 Class
• Rays, a Simple Camera, and Background
• Adding a Sphere
• Surface Normals and Multiple Objects
• Moving Camera Code Into Its Own Class
• Antialiasing
• Diffuse Materials
• Metal
• Dielectrics
• Positionable Camera
• Defocus Blur
• Where Next?

Why I Stopped

I have came to the conclusion that Python is definitely not the right language to write a ray-tracer in. It is way too slow, and I have started learning C++. Will remake this in C++ to make this exponentially faster.