The Ray Tracer Challenge

A partial implementation of The Ray Tracer Challenge book using Rust. This is a side project to learn the Rust programming language.

Debug mode is extremely slow. Sample apps should be executed in release mode which is much faster.

Chapters

• Chapter 1 - Tuples, Points, and Vectors
• Chapter 2 - Drawing on a Canvas
• Chapter 3 - Matrices
• Chapter 4 - Matrix Transformations
• Chapter 5 - Ray-Sphere Intersections
• Chapter 6 - Light and Shading
• Chapter 7 - Making a Scene
• Chapter 8 - Shadows
• Chapter 9 - Planes
• Chapter 10 - Patterns
• Chapter 11 - Reflection and Refraction
• Chapter 12 - Cubes
• Chapter 13 - Cylinders
• Chapter 14 - Groups
• Chapter 15 - Triangles
• Chapter 16 - Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
• Chapter 17 - Next Steps
• Chapter 18 - Rendering the Cover Image

References

• The Ray Tracer Challenge Errata
• The Ray Tracer Challenge Forum
• The Rust Programming Language or execute rustup doc --book
• The Rust Reference or execute rustup doc --reference
• Rust by Example or execute rustup doc --rust-by-example

Sample