I would give this book 5 stars for content but 1 for print quality. I received this book after ordering it from the cheapest "New" seller and the quality of the printing was absolutely awful. A page fell out and it felt and looked like someone printed this on their home printer and glued it together. I immediately went to the Taylor and Francis group's website and purchased another copy to see if it was better and it was. It just arrived today and it looks and feels like an actual textbook print job. I am returning my Amazon purchase but am going to keep the one I got from them directly.
You should be careful when buying this book through Amazon. I paid the same price on the publishers website and am actually happy with the quality.
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Very cheaply made book, terrible print quality.
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018
This is a review of the physical quality of the book, not the content. The content is excellent, but sadly the quality of the book is awful. This is a major disappointment as the 3rd edition was very nice. This 4th edition is made of thin cheap paper that could easily be torn with a careless page turn. The picture print quality is very bad, extremely grainy. I have seriously seen better printing from 20 year old inkjets. I've attached some comparison pictures from the 3rd and 4th edition as well as some particularly bad examples from just the 4th so you can decide for yourself. Personally I'm returning my copy and will avoid CRC Press in the future.
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2018
Both books I've received have had pages just fall out. The pages seems like they're not even bound. The attached picture depicts the quality of the first book received. I opened to the physically based shading section only to have the page slide out. It seems like every 15 pages or so has a loose page that will fall out. I suspect the entire inventory of books have this issue.
Do yourself a favor, don't bother buying a hard copy of the 4th edition. If you've already ordered a copy, check around page 301 for loose pages.
edit: I am changing my review from 1 start to what it is now. After reading a good portion of this book, the content really is amazing. It is such a shame that the hard copy is flawed.
Buyer beware hard copy and open book after receiving.
By Anonymous Purchaser on December 21, 2018
I'd love to own this book because the content looks amazing. But I am about to return my second copy after returning the first.By Anonymous Purchaser on December 21, 2018
Both books I've received have had pages just fall out. The pages seems like they're not even bound. The attached picture depicts the quality of the first book received. I opened to the physically based shading section only to have the page slide out. It seems like every 15 pages or so has a loose page that will fall out. I suspect the entire inventory of books have this issue.
Do yourself a favor, don't bother buying a hard copy of the 4th edition. If you've already ordered a copy, check around page 301 for loose pages.
edit: I am changing my review from 1 start to what it is now. After reading a good portion of this book, the content really is amazing. It is such a shame that the hard copy is flawed.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2018
However, as other reviewers have noted, the 4th addition of Realtime Rendering is a joke in terms of print quality. After reading other reviews, I didn't think it would be that bad, but it literally does not compare to the 3rd edition I have sitting on my shelf. Really, it doesn't compare to ANY OTHER TECHNICAL BOOK I've bought in the last decade. Images are grainy and low resolution, color accuracy is poor, the TEXT IS NOT CLEAR (come on!), and the paper is so thin that just lightly turning pages can easily tear it. Compared to the previous edition which I've owned for years, I doubt this book will stand up to just a single read through. And when you put the two side by side and open up to similar pages, its just depressing.
I mean, seriously, I have many other books by CRC Press and they're usually top quality. I don't know why this one is so astronomically different.
Its unfortunate I have to give this book a 1 star review, I really have relied a lot on this series throughout my career as a professional software developer. But this book is absolutely not worth $89 + tax. If you want one of these, consider the 3rd edition. If you need the latest info, perhaps try the e version for half price. I may keep mine since I already have it and I'm reading through it. But at its current price and quality, I cannot recommend anyone else bother with this.
Fantastic Book, Absolutely Horrid Print Quality
By Amazon Customer on September 19, 2018
The content of this series is top notch. If you want to learn anything about realtime graphics and rendering form basics to advanced topics, you can't go without one of these books.By Amazon Customer on September 19, 2018
However, as other reviewers have noted, the 4th addition of Realtime Rendering is a joke in terms of print quality. After reading other reviews, I didn't think it would be that bad, but it literally does not compare to the 3rd edition I have sitting on my shelf. Really, it doesn't compare to ANY OTHER TECHNICAL BOOK I've bought in the last decade. Images are grainy and low resolution, color accuracy is poor, the TEXT IS NOT CLEAR (come on!), and the paper is so thin that just lightly turning pages can easily tear it. Compared to the previous edition which I've owned for years, I doubt this book will stand up to just a single read through. And when you put the two side by side and open up to similar pages, its just depressing.
I mean, seriously, I have many other books by CRC Press and they're usually top quality. I don't know why this one is so astronomically different.
Its unfortunate I have to give this book a 1 star review, I really have relied a lot on this series throughout my career as a professional software developer. But this book is absolutely not worth $89 + tax. If you want one of these, consider the 3rd edition. If you need the latest info, perhaps try the e version for half price. I may keep mine since I already have it and I'm reading through it. But at its current price and quality, I cannot recommend anyone else bother with this.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2021
much better printing quality than expected
By hank on March 30, 2021
Just got the book, it's pretty heavy and the printing quality is much higher than I would expect, given reviews are complaining a lot about it. The papers are thick and images do have high resolution (at least for me). Overall I'm very happy with the purchase, cannot wait to read it!
By hank on March 30, 2021
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What a pity...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 6, 2018
What a pity...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 6, 2018
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Amazon did a very poor packaging job for this book. Ironically they used to wrap an eraser with air cushions, just a single piece of kraft paper in a thin cardboard box is far from enough for such a heavy and fragile hardcover book. The book was received with damaged corner due to weak packaging.
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It is still one of the best in literature, with significant update in some chapters, would recommend to both first-time readers and those who have read the older editions.
Unfortunately two new chapters on collision detection and real-time ray tracing are not included in the physical book, but they can be downloaded for free from the book's website.
-print quality & physical binding-
While waiting for the book, I was aware of the complaints on Amazon.com, the print quality is indeed a lot worse than the 3rd edition, the images appeared to be grainy and noisy like something you get from an office printer, it's a shame for a computer graphics book at £65+. However it didn't bother me as much as I would expected as most of them did their illustrative purposes (or it could be my new low expectation after reading all those bad reviews).
Of most concern is the binding. The book is much heavier and bulkier than the 3rd edition, whereas the binding quality is not even comparable, given the size and weight of the book I just felt it's so fragile that one day it would fall apart if it gets dropped on the ground.
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Karl Davis
Great content - printing is fine
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 7, 2018steph
Great book but very poor binding
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2019AJ
Fantastic tome of information, reasonable build quality
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2019
