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September 4, 2025

New Video: Ray Tracing in One Weekend - In Rust

With the Summer of Rust now concluded, I thought it might be interesting to record a video. So without further fanfare, I'm happy to present a start-to-finish live-coding of the Ray Tracing in One Weekend project in Rust.

  • Part 1 (3.5 hours)
  • Part 2 (3.5 hours)

Yes, this is almost 7 hours of unedited coding where the entire project is finished along with various bits of Rust commentary along the way.

I think the Ray Tracer is a nice project for learning Rust--in fact, it's one of the first projects I attempted when I tried to learn Rust about seven years ago. With this video, you can certainly use it as a guide for coding the project yourself. Alternatively, if you're simply curious to see what Rust coding looks like, you can just sit back with a pot of coffee and watch as a pretty picture slowly emerges from the code--much like in a Bob Ross video.

Enjoy!
Dave

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