Attempting to follow https://github.com/petershirley/raytracinginoneweekend
Rust related notes:
- The https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition is great (ch. 1 - 12 so far...)
- I'm only using 'stable' builds / never tried nightly.
- Structs are pretty powerful, but I'm not 100% sure if my use of new() is correct. I'm sort of inconsistently using it as a way to instantiate a new object like I would an _init_ Python -- but its clearly doing something else. It is being used as more of a factory to produce an object rather than init it.
- Structs, impl, and traits feel good -- and work well for me -- but at the same time I'm left confused as to how to have a struct/fn actually accept multiple objects that share a trait. The Lambert and Metal material are actually the quite similar other than its implimentation of its material trait -- but I can't feed a generic material::Material as a param. I'm missing something that I'm hoping I'll find out about in a future chapter -- looks like Box keyword might be my solution? But its confusing. UPDATE: Ended up using the Box along with a clone impl to get this to work.
- I really enjoy the fast iteration of the compiler giving warnings and helpful indications of what is going wrong. I seem to encounter the same things over and over -- so I have a feeling once things click in a bit more that I'll actually have learned something from this excercise beyond just learning Rust, but also how references really should be used.
- I used PyCharm and IntelliJ's Rust plugin (both commercial and community versions seemed the same) - and its awesome except for the fact that there is no breakpoints or way to profile (that I could see).
- I've had one work colleague take a look at the work and did note that it looked very C like in structure instead of Rust like -- This is due to the handholding of the tutorial, and I'm hoping to to revisit and better understand where I'm writing non-Rust like code :). This is really about me not asking for outside reviews enough... so will fix that.
- I used a match that uses a float -- its giving me warnings -- my firt real indication that the language is still deciding some things. I assume one day the code may break (currently using 1.30.1) - rust-lang/rust#41620
- Some additional resources that were helpful:
- https://joshleeb.com/posts/rust-traits-and-trait-objects/
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30353462/how-to-clone-a-struct-storing-a-boxed-trait-object
Step 1: Create a PPM file
Step 2: Render a "Linear Blend" or "Linear Interpolation"
Step 3: Render a Sphere
Step 4: Surface Normals
Step 5: Adding Multiple 'Hitables' to the 'world'
Step 6: Antialiasing
Step 7: Diffuse Materials (uncorrected/gamma corrected)
Removed 'Shadow Acne':
Step 8/9: Adding a Lambert, Metal (with then without fuzz parameter), and Dielectric Materials
Step 10: Updated the camera controls
Step 11: Added DOF
Final Result:
