Read data from JSON

• Ability to read sphere information from a JSON file.
• Minor refactoring

What's Changed

• Add unit tests and read scenes from JSON file by @soumyasen1809 in #18
• Refactor scenes.rs by @soumyasen1809 in #19

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

Parallelize using Rayon

Overview

• Used rayon to parallelize the loops of image render
• Use rayon parallel iterator to create the random balls in the scene.
• Image rendering faster due to parallelization.

What's Changed

• Parallelize using Rayon by @soumyasen1809 in #14

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

First official release of RustRayTracer

Overview

This is the first official release of RustRayTracer, a simple ray tracer implemented in Rust. This is a simple ray-tracer implementation in Rust of Peter Shirley's "Ray Tracing In One Weekend" book.
It serves as a learning tool for understanding the basics of ray tracing and the Rust programming language.

This release includes basic features like:

• Geometry: Sphere
• Camera movements
• Materials: Lambertian, Glass and Metal

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

> git clone https://github.com/soumyasen1809/RustRayTracer.git
> cd RustRayTracer

2. Build the project:

> cargo build --release

3. Run the ray-tracer:

> cargo run

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

What's Changed

• Render PPM Image by @soumyasen1809 in #1
• Added background image of linear blend and foreground image of a sphere by @soumyasen1809 in #3
• Added Hittable trait and Camera class by @soumyasen1809 in #4
• Anti-aliasing by @soumyasen1809 in #5
• Added scene with Lambertian and Metal materials by @soumyasen1809 in #7
• Add dielectric material by @soumyasen1809 in #8
• Final image render by @soumyasen1809 in #10
• Updated README file by @soumyasen1809 in #11

New Contributors

• @soumyasen1809 made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/soumyasen1809/RustRayTracer/commits/v1.0.0