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