First implementation of a simple Ray-Tracer in Golang. This implementation is heavily inspired by the excellent book by Jamis Buck, The Ray Tracer Challenge. It is a complete explanation of how a Ray Tracer work and can be implemented in any language of your choice.
I wanted to learn a low level language for a while and decided this project would be the perfect opportunity. I first thought of using C++ when I discovered Go a low level language developed by Google with just 27 keywords. In retrospective I think using C++ or Rust would have been better options for this particular project.
Goals
- Build a simple fully functional Ray-Tracer
- Not use any external packages
- Install Go
- Clone repo to local repository
cd <directory>git clone https://github.com/GerniVisser/Ray-Tracer.git
- In
main.goset the scene you want to render.
2 Default scenes pre-loaded
- To render a custom scene create new go file in scene folder
- follow conventions in scene1.go and scene2.go
- In main.go set you new scene
- To render new image run
go run main.go
