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Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Peter Shirley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In the two previous ray tracing mini-books, the reader was led through making a basic ray tracer, and no graphics background was assumed. This volume extends from the first two but uses terminology and math that will help entry into the professional world of realistic rendering.
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    March 30, 2016
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DN58P8C
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9902 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 60 pages
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I'm a Chicago transplant living in Salt Lake City, Utah. I have a physics degree from Reed College, but discovered computers when Professor Nicolas Wheeler forced me to do a ray tracing program in 1984. It was 2D ray tracing to do a caustic on a Vax and writing out the picture to a green Techtonix terminal. This convinced me to go to grad school in computer science at Illinois. I have been ray tracing ever since. I've done stints in various universities and companies and am currently in my own start-up company doing VR which is common but not using HMDs which is not!

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  • Michael Petrie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the idea of importance sampling.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
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    After reading several high level papers describing various BDRFs and how to sample them, I was still quite confused about the whole topic . Only after reading this book did things really start to click. Pete describes things in a way that separates the wheat from the chaff, making it easier to to find your bearings. Well worth it!
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  • Robert Tracy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ray Tracing programming
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2018
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    Computers are becoming fast and powerful where ray tracing programming is becoming practical. Great series of books.
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  • Tim Little
    4.0 out of 5 stars The series is a nice introductory text
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2017
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    The series is a nice introductory text, but this last volume does not seem to provide a very broad overview of the remaining topics. It mentions a few things without even providing even a cursory explanation of them. It does cover the most important topic, Monte Carlo integration at a nice introductory level. Given the brevity of all of the books in this series they convey a lot of information in a practical way. I think the last book could have provided more references and covered more basic ideas to provide the reader enough context to continue on their ray tracing journey though.
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  • RAS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2016
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    I like the way ray tracing is introduced
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  • AberrantWolf
    2.0 out of 5 stars A massive leap in required knowledge, and difficult to follow explanations
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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    You really need to have done integral calculus for this book. The leap in required knowledge is pretty intense, and the equation notation is quite difficult to follow (equations are all written out in plain text with no specialized mathematical formatting a la LaTeX or other math notation tools). Further, the book basically walks you through the reasoning and work integrating a single feature, and I'm not entirely convinced that the end result is visually comparable to performing tons of samples per pixel using the previous book's results.

    I'm still working my way through this one as I'm determined to see it through, but I only made it through differential calculus in school and I'm having to ask for a lot of help understanding the mathematical leaps early on from a friend of mine who tutors advanced maths.

    To be fair, the optimization presented is very involved and I appreciate the effort made to explain it. But if you don't already have the maths background, this one will be pretty rough and you may find yourself disappointed when compared with progress you make when compared to the previous two books in the series.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars レイトレの入門に
    Reviewed in Japan on August 25, 2019
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    コンピュータグラフィックスを専門としている者です。レイトレーシングの入門に最適な書籍だと思います。私はこの書籍で多くを学びました。
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  • Fröhlich, Jan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great and simple explanation of the foundations of image synthesis
    Reviewed in Germany on April 17, 2016
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    These three Mini Books are a great and simple explanation of the foundations of image synthesis. I especially like the hand-drawn plots that often illustrate the fundamental problem better compared to perfect computer drawn plots.
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    Reviewed in Japan on January 31, 2019
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    easy and awesome
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