tinyrenderer_rs

This repo consists of a Rust implementation of the tinyrenderer walkthrough by professor Dmitry V. Sokolov. For a tinyraytracer Rust implementation, check the tinyraytracer_rs repo.

Dependencies:

• image 0.24.5: Image loading and manipulation
• piston_window 1.127.0: Window to display rendered frames
• obj-rs 0.6: To retrieve information from .obj files
• nalgebra 0.31.4: For vector and matrix calculations

Usage

To run, just clone any of the branches and do:

cargo run --release <assets directory>

where <assets directory> is the directory in which the corresponding assets of the model are. For example, to run Lesson 7 you must do:

cargo run --release assets/diablo3_pose

At the moment, if you want to use other models/textures, you would have to modify the respective assets names in main.

Lessons

Lesson 0

Write to an image buffer and render it in a window.

Branch: Lesson_0

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Lesson 1

Implement Bressenham's line algorithm. Then, use it to draw the wireframe model of a mesh.

Branch: Lesson_1

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Lesson 2

Implement triangle filling using both line sweeping algorithm and barycentric coordinates algorithm. Then implement a basic directional lighting model, computing the lighting of each triangle face using its normals.

Branch: Lesson_2

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Lesson 3

Implement Z-buffer algorithm for back-face culling. Then, apply textures to the mesh.

Branch: Lesson_3

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Lesson 4

Implement perspective projection.

Branch: Lesson_4

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Lesson 5

Implement Gouraud shading. Then, implement model view, projection, and viewport transformation matrices. Lastly, apply several transformations to the model through matrices transformation chaining.

Branch: Lesson_5

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Lesson 6/6bis

Structure code into shaders form. Then, implement texture-based normal mapping for the model, using both global coordinate system normal mapping and Darboux frame normal mapping. Lastly, improve lighting by composing the lighting of the model using ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting (Phong shading).

Branches: Lesson_6 Lesson_6bis

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Lesson 7

Implement hard shadow computation through shadow mapping.

Branch: Lesson_7

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Lesson 8

Implement screen space ambient occlusion.

Branch: Lesson_8

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Technical difficulties: linear interpolation with perspective deformations

Implement perspective correction for perspective deformations during linear interpolation.

Branch: persp_correction

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