try! Swift Tokyo Conference 2019 - try! Swift is an immersive community gathering about Apple Technologies, Swift Language Best Practices, Application Development in Swift, Server-Side Swift, Open Source Swift, and the Swift Community in Tokyo! Topic - Graphics like Pixar using Swift Speaker - Michael Petrie Twitter - https://twitter.com/kapsy1312 Bio - My name is Michael Petrie, but everyone calls me Kapsy. I work for ZOZO Technologies and lead the iOS measurement framework team. I have a background in games and real time programming, using C and C++, and yearn for the day when we can all decide on a common ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and be happy. Abstract - This is a talk about some of the hurdles faced when writing a simple Ray Tracer from scratch, using Swift. Ray Tracing is the cornerstone of Pixar's infamous Renderman 3D rendering technology, which dominates the animated film industry. It works by physically modeling light rays and their interactions with objects and surfaces. Within recent years there has been a renewed interest in real time Ray Tracing, with the advent of more powerful and specialized hardware such as NVIDIAs RTX. Even renowned programmer John Carmack has stated that ""all roads lead to Rome"", when asked about the future of real time computer graphics and Ray Tracing. While I enjoy working with traditional graphics rasterizers, I have always been interested in physically modeling light, and have wanted to learn more about the processes involved. Here I talk about how I programmed a Ray Tracer that renders a simple scene from first principles. Given the timing, it also seemed like the perfect opportunity to test the versatility of Swift. Presentation Link - https://github.com/tryswift/tokyo2019slides/tree/master/MichaelPetrie try! Swift Tokyo Twitter - https://twitter.com/tryswiftconf try! Swift New York Twitter Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/tryswiftconf try! Swift Website - https://www.tryswift.co/ try! Swift Conference Photos - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tryswift/albums try! Swift Conference Contact - tokyo@tryswift.co try! Swift Conference © 2019 - Powered by NatashaTheRobot