The title of each project is a link to its code repository.

Path Tracer

It’s a simple path tracer! I’m following Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley et al., but I’m doing it in Rust for nicer compiler errors. This is one of my favorite projects. I’m only part-way, but I’ve also added:

• Lights (the tutorial only has background lighting)
• A command-line interface with clap
• A JSON input format for describing the world to be rendered, parsed with serde
• A live preview with pixels and winit
• Parallelized rendering, using either rayon or OS threads. Threads turned out significantly faster!

Bézier Drawing Program

In addition to the above, I wrote a small program that renders beziers (a kind of mathematical curve) to the screen. I was inspired by this wonderful video: The Beauty of Bézier Curves. It’s the same structure as the previous project, using mostly the same dependencies - clap, serde, pixels, and winit.

Collaborations

Nullability in OO

My friend Kevin and I wrote a simple interpreter for a Object-Oriented language with a concept of nullability. The idea was to emulate Swift, Dart, or Kotlin with the ability to statically prevent most null pointer errors from being possible by requiring the user to indicate if a field should be nullable. This was mostly my idea, but implementing the interpreter in OCaml was a group effort. It was both trickier and easier than expected.

Right now, there’s no frontend, so you’d have to write your programs in the abstract syntax tree. But I might make one someday!