ray_tracer

README

Ray Tracer

A ray-tracer written in golang.

Roughly following the Ray Tracing in One Weekend blog.

Install

To install, place the package in your go/src folder:

~ go get github.com/am-khan/ray_tracer/cmd/ray_tracer

Usage

To run (with build):

~ ray_tracer

Using 16 goroutines.

[================================================================================] 100.00%

Done. 
Elapsed: 25.709205942s

Environment

Currently, the environment supports spheres, aliasing and 3 types of materials:

• Lambertian
• Metallic
• Dialectric

To set up a new object, go to configs/config.json and specify the properties there.

go build github.com/am-khan/ray_tracer/cmd/ray_tracer

Outputs

Images are created at ./image.png with the dimensions and attributes set within configs/config.json.

Testing

To run the unit tests - use the built-in go test runner:

~ go test ./...