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Ray Tracing in One Weekend (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 1)
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This informal book takes you through most of the author's university course on ray tracing. Each mini-chapter adds one feature to the ray tracer, and by the end the reader can produce the image on the book cover. Details of basic ray tracing code architecture and C++ classes are given.
Kindle Edition, 49 pages
Published
January 26th 2016
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A very nice tutorial! It's light on theory, but allows you to get started in ray tracing pretty quickly and generate beautiful images with your own code, just printing pixels colours to PPM image text files (no OpenGL or other heavy weight libraries). I liked the hand-drawn diagrams and author's terse and "to the point" narration style.
I've coded this project in Rust, check it out :)
https://github.com/sphynx/rt
I've coded this project in Rust, check it out :)
https://github.com/sphynx/rt
As implied by the title, I was able to complete Ray Tracing in One Weekend in about 10 hours, including translating all of the source from C++ to Swift as I went. There's a reason this book is so popular: It's difficult to explain deep technical subjects like this concisely and Shirley does it well. Technical books on a subject like this tend to either be long-winded affairs in textbook format, or poorly written trade books. This book is neither long-winded nor poorly written. In that sense it's
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(I mean, I took a course from Pete in grad school, so of course I'm biased) I picked this up to have a small project through which to get back into Rust. The book doesn't disappoint.
I'll tell you this - I've never written anything else that comes near this ratio of satisfaction per line of code. Highly, highly recommended.
I'll tell you this - I've never written anything else that comes near this ratio of satisfaction per line of code. Highly, highly recommended.
Great approach to writing a quick path tracer to gives impressive results.
A little bit light on the Fresnel equation details, and the code contains some strange sign choices here and there, but overall, great read and a lot of fun to co-implement as you read.
A little bit light on the Fresnel equation details, and the code contains some strange sign choices here and there, but overall, great read and a lot of fun to co-implement as you read.
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Great into to ray tracing
Concisely introduces the core concepts of ray tracing. The example code is easy to understand and satisfying to compile & run as you go. A short & enjoyable graphics book that I frequently recommended to others.
Concisely introduces the core concepts of ray tracing. The example code is easy to understand and satisfying to compile & run as you go. A short & enjoyable graphics book that I frequently recommended to others.
Very well written and easy to follow. I don't read all the code but the math and explanation are very interesting. A must read for anyone want to start writing Ray Tracer.
Very practical book to get into ray tracing.
Simple and fantastic resource!
A great learning resource, full of straightforward examples. Provides a great foundation for learning how to build a working raytracer.
A great learning resource, full of straightforward examples. Provides a great foundation for learning how to build a working raytracer.
This book reminded me of Advanced Computer Graphics classes. Reading about ray tracing is boring (it's just normal physics) but implementation is damn fun.
This one is a gem :)
I really enjoyed this book. It's a very light reference that presents you with a raytracer that can produce some fairly nice-looking images. I don't think that this is a weekend project as the book makes it out to be. I think one to two weeks is a much more reasonable timeframe to complete the raytracer defined in this book. Some of the equations and code (EG: ray refraction, Shlick's approximation) were quickly glossed over, and required additional work from the reader to understand. At the end
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Overall, this mini-book is like a notepad with lecture notes. Short explanations, hand drawn images and code snippets are there, but you have to do additional research and organise exercise labs on your own. If you are willing to do this, then this book is for you and can bring you some fun and satisfaction. You can find more detailed review and example pictures here:
http://mariuszbartosik.com/books/ray-...
http://mariuszbartosik.com/books/ray-...
This is a fantastic introduction to producing images with code. This book quickly allows the reader to grasp the simplicity and elegance of the ray-tracing algorithm without a single external piece of code or library. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to become a better texturing/shading artist as well as for those looking to write their own software.
Does not cover the mathematical foundation required to understand what you are doing but you can have a slick looking ray tracer in a weekend.
Delivers nice rendered pictures in a minimum number of pages.
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This Peter Shirley is an American computer scientist and computer graphics researcher, Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA.
He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991. He then joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. From 1994 to 1996 ...more
This Peter Shirley is an American computer scientist and computer graphics researcher, Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA.
He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991. He then joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. From 1994 to 1996 ...more
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“Note that I avoid most “modern features” of C++, but inheritance and operator overloading are too useful for ray tracers to pass on.”
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