Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation 2nd Edition

by Matt Pharr (Author), Greg Humphreys (Author)

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"Physically Based Rendering is a terrific book. It covers all the marvelous math, fascinating physics, practical software engineering, and clever tricks that are necessary to write a state-of-the-art photorealistic renderer. All of these topics are dealt with in a clear and pedagogical manner without omitting the all-important practical details."--Per Christensen Senior Software Developer, RenderMan Products Pixar Animation Studios

"Intended for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in a computer graphics course, this large volume provides a comprehensive examination of complex rendering algorithms and demonstrates, through detailed examination of source code and example projects, the practical development and application of cutting edge image creation and processing software. This second edition is updated to reflect current technologies and contains updated information on relevant recent hardware improvements such as advanced multi-core processors as well as an increased focus on production graphics techniques. The text includes numerous illustrations, code examples, and formulas as well as recommendations for further reading and chapter exercises. Pharr is a principle engineer for Intel and Humphreys is an engineer for NVIDIA and a former professor of computer science at the University of Virginia."--SciTech Book News

"Pharr and Humphreys’ textbook is beautifully typeset, thoroughly indexed, unendingly cross-referenced, extensively illustrated, and printed in full color. Given its unconventional preparation style, this textbook stands out because of its descriptions of the tradeoffs involved in developing a complete working renderer. Although somewhat verbose at times, the discussions of design tradeoffs and performance considerations are an excellent complement to the more traditional coverage of the theory behind photorealistic rendering. C++ idioms sometimes get in the way of more elegant solutions, but their use is always reasonably justified. If you are just looking for a general introduction to image synthesis and rendering, standard graphics textbooks [2] might fit the bill; however, if you intend to develop your own renderer or try out new ideas, this textbook provides an excellent starting point."--Computing Reviews.com

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An updated and expanded edition of the definitive rendering reference!

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Physically Based Rendering, 2^nd Edition describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation. A method - known as 'literate programming'- combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education. Through the ideas and software in this book, you will learn to design and employ a full-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery.

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Physically Based Rendering, 2^nd Edition describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation. A method - known as 'literate programming'- combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education. Through the ideas and software in this book, you will learn to design and employ a full-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery.

About the Author

Matt Pharr is a Software Engineer at Google. He previously co-founded Neoptica, which was acquired by Intel, and co-founded Exluna, which was acquired by NVIDIA. He has a B.S. degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from the Stanford Graphics Lab, where he worked under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan.

Greg Humphreys is Director of Engineering at FanDuel, having previously worked on the Chrome graphics team at Google and the OptiX GPU raytracing engine at NVIDIA. Before that, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where he conducted research in both high performance and physically based computer graphics, as well as computer architecture and visualization. Greg has a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. When he's not tracing rays, Greg can usually be found playing tournament bridge.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd edition (July 12, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0123750792
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0123750792
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.75 x 9.25 inches

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Sword7

Someone altered my digital order from print replica to kindle (mobi)!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013

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When that kindle edition was on sale, I ordered that print replica version instead of regular kindle edition (mobi). I had a PDF-version copy for a while but they altered my digital order with kindle edition instead without my knowledge. Later kindle app automatically re-downloaded it from cloud storage. I ended up mobi version instead that it does not allow me to zoom anymore. However, Elsevier store website still offers PDF version for both editions of that book. That's why I prefer PDF version over MOBI version and I will order PDF version for both books (1st and 2nd editions) soon. Rated 1 star.

Also I have print book and reviewed book. That is very good information for ray-tracing programming but it is not for beginners. It requires knowledge of Calculus and Linear Algebra. I researched about that and found some interesting articles like realistic camera lens that uses complex mathematics to render everything as if real camera take photos. I am so impressed. Some day I will learn how to write a program to simulate real camera lens. Rated 5 stars.

Overall ratings: 3 stars.

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Indrikov Vadim

new level of the great book

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2010

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ok, I should not repeat what people already said about the first edition - this book is definitely great, outstanding, and it covers both theory and implementation indeed
I also will not repeat what you can find in th preface - thanks to editor you can preview the book and find what it is about and how it differs from the first edition. The preview also contains three chapters, it is more than enough to give you an understanding what kind of book is it. So, please, no this "I whant to render nice pictures, and this book is full of formulas and program code" comments.

No CDs included, because the renderer source code is available on the book web site (mentioned in the introductory chapter)

I just whant to add something to "About the Authors" because things about them changed more than a little bit, and because you could not find this information here.
(from the back-cover)

Matt Pharr co-founded both Exluna (acquired by NVIDIA) and Neoptica (acquired by Intel), and has also worked in Pixar's Rendering R&D group.
Greg Humphreys is the software lead for the OptiX ray tracing engine at NVIDIA [OptiX is GPU-accelerated rt toolkit, you can find it on NVIDIA developer site - V.I.]

So, as you can see, the authors are trustworthy, at least in this area :).

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C. S.

you might be better off looking elsewhere

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2017

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I think seems be a very thorough discussion of PBR within the context of raytracing. If you are going to be working with real time rendering, you might be better off looking elsewhere. The math is quite advanced and assumes a lot of prior knowledge (a lot of it is above my head). This is definitely a graduate level text book.

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Dave

This book is best read like a novel.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020

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If you are graphics programmer, hobby or pro, this is not a book to skip. In its paper form it is easily enjoyed during leisure time, and a great reference in the future.

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Joe

Literate code style is over-rated

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2015

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It is a decent book, but I don't particularly like the style. The code is a major feature of the book, but I don't think it adds much beyond the information provided in the prose. I also found the code to be too fragmented into tiny snippets with tons of references between snippets. The authors assume that snippets no longer than 7 lines helps understanding, but I find that scattering a logically contiguous piece of code across a chapter makes it harder to understand.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016

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A must have book. Fullstop. The kindle version is so-so, poor rendering (...) of the equation.

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Berj Bannayan

Kindle edition suffers

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013

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So far the content seems good but the kindle edition suffers greatly. All of the page number cross referencing is broken and there's absolutely no way to figure out which location in the kindle edition corresponds to which page in the print book.

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Moulis Marc

Good book, but not real-time oriented

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013

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Very complete book, covers all major aspects of the subject. Although I was expecting to have more "real-time oriented" matter.

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Vasco Costa

Great content. But the book Amazon sent me was ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2018

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Great content. But the book Amazon sent me was dented and they claimed it was a transportation fault. Well, it wasn't me who chose the transporters. I've also had a package come completely soaked once. Good thing it didn't have a book inside.

Novox

Schönes Buch mit didaktische Schwächen

Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2012

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Wenn man "Physically based rendering" (2nd Edition) das erste mal aufschlägt, sticht einem zunächst das schöne Layout mit der größtenteils gelungenen typographischen Gestaltung ins Auge. Das umfangreiche Inhaltsverzeichnis verheißt einen umfassenden Überblick über moderne Techniken der Computergrafik. Allein, der didaktische Ansatz hinter diesem Werk scheitert leider kläglich, wenn es darum geht, dem Leser echtes Verständnis für die behandelte Materie zu vermitteln.

Das Buch ist im sogenannten “Literate-Programming”-Stil verfaßt, d.h. Code-Listings wechseln sich mit erklärenden Prosa-Texten ab. Die Code-Schnipsel stammen aus dem Raytracer pbrt der Autoren, dessen Quellcode auch auf der Website des Buches heruntergeladen werden kann. Nun mag sich Literate Programming gut dazu eignen komplexen Quellcode zu dokumentieren und wenn man dem Buch von Anfang bis Ende folgt (und keine Fehler macht), kann man so auch eine eigene Version von pbrt selbst reimplementieren. Ob diese Version dann funktionstüchtig ist, merkt man aber leider erst ganz zum Schluß.

Sinnvoller wäre es meiner Meinung nach gewesen, wenn die Autoren einen iterativen Weg gewählt hätten: Anstatt dem Leser vom ersten Kapitel an einen schwer zu durchblickenden, vergleichsweise komplexen State-of-the-Art-Raytracer um die Ohren zu hauen, hätten sie mit einer einfachen, grundlegenden Variante beginnen sollen (Stichwort: Schwebende Kugel im Raum mit Ambient-Lighting), deren Fähigkeiten dann nach und nach ausgebaut werden würde. So hätte der CG-Neuling direkt laufenden Programmcode zur Hand — den er noch dazu in allen Einzelheiten verstünde — was der dauerhaften Motivation sicherlich zugute käme.

Folglich kann man dieses, grundsätzlich schön gemachte, Buch nur Lesern empfehlen, die bereits über ein fundiertes Grundwissen verfügen und schon zwei, drei Raytracer selbst implementiert haben. Dann kann dieses Werk durchaus als Inspirationsquelle für die eigene Arbeit dienen. Neulinge aber sollten besser die Finger von "Physically based rendering" lassen.

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Martin Tomasi

A great second computer graphics book

Reviewed in Germany on April 23, 2014

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This is not an introductory text. A good familiarity with general computer graphics concepts, mathematical notation and C++ is assumed. That is necessary since this book has a very large scope and tries to do many things. I personally really like the way code and text are mixed in this book, it feels very natural. There is a lot of ground that is covered, from basics of ray tracing to sampling theory, transformations, shading, BRDFs and more advanced topics like Monte Carlo sampling, Metropolis light transport, subsurface scattering and so on. As for the code, the authors only use a subset of the C++ language (as I imagine everyone does, since the language is so massive) and the code is quite readable. There are some concessions made for performance, but those are generally well-explained in the accompanying text. The book has a very solid amount of illustrations that help visualize things like ray-object intersections, acceleration structures and a lot of other things. This book is a remarkable effort to make advanced computer graphics and its implementation in code accessible and It does a fantastic job at that.

L. M. Prado

Estupendo

Reviewed in Spain on February 7, 2013

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Este libro tiene de todo, está mucho más actualizado que Real Time Rendering (aunque ese también es un buen complement9, y contiene muchísimas referencias para continuar el estudio a base de otros libros y papers. Un libro para tener en la biblioteca, sin duda.

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Signorelli Massimo

Completo e ben leggibile

Reviewed in Italy on May 16, 2013

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Libro molto dettagliato, con esempi di codice facilmente riutilizzabili.
Non proprio per principianti, richiede basi matematiche.
Carta patinata, su cui non si può facilmente scrivere note a margine!

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