Capstone project: Raytracer

Overview

The Raytracer project is a GPU-accelerated ray tracing engine implemented in Rust using the wgpu graphics API.

Preview

Key Features

• Real-time ray tracing
• GPU acceleration via wgpu
• Multiple sphere rendering
• Reflection and shading effects

Technical Stack

• Language: Rust
• Graphics API: wgpu
• Shader Language: WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language)
• Window Management: winit

Technologies Used

1. Rust: The primary programming language used for the project.
2. wgpu: A cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics API.
3. winit: A window creation and management library for Rust.
4. WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language): Used for writing the raytracing shader.
5. anyhow: For flexible error handling in Rust.
6. pollster: An async runtime for blocking on futures.
7. bytemuck: Used for casting between byte arrays and other types.