Ray tracer

Samples

Prerequisites

• You have Node installed at v15.8.0+ and Yarn at v1.2.0+
• You are familiar with Git

Development Workflow

After cloning ray-tracer, run yarn install to fetch its dependencies. Then, you can run several commands:

• yarn test runs the complete test suite
• yarn build-src compiles the library
• yarn build-examples compiles the examples
• yarn animate <animation-example-name> generates an animation
  • Example: yarn animate spheres
• yarn generate <highres-example-name> generates a high resolution image
  • Example: yarn generate pattern
• Render artifacts are written to build/artifacts

Web app

• yarn build-docs compiles the web app
• yarn start starts the development server
• Navigate to http://localhost:8000/docs

Documentation

The ray tracer uses right-handed coordinates and counter-clockwise rotation around the axis. Matrices are row-major.

Image format conversion

To convert the .ppm files to more common image formats, see FORMAT.md.