BlandSoft BSTrace

Free RayTracing Software for Personal Computers

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Building

Clone the git repo then do cargo build --release.

Installing

After building, do cargo install --path .. This will install the release binary and put the bs-trace binary on your PATH to be run from the command line.

Running

After installing, run bs-trace from the command line. Alternatively, from the cloned repo root do cargo run.

The program will compute a ray-traced image of two spheres and write the output in PPM format to the current working directory as "out.ppm".

Copyright, Copying & Licensing

BlandSoft BSTrace Copyright (C) Elizabeth Bland 2024

BlandSoft BSTrace is made freely available under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3. ("GPL-3.0-only")

See COPYING for a copy of the licence text.