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"Physically Based Rendering" walks you through the theory behind, and the implementation of, a photo-realistic rendering system (not real-time). An extremely t

"Physically Based Rendering" walks you through the theory behind, and the implementation of, a photo-realistic rendering system (not real-time). An extremely thorough guide to ray tracing. https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation/dp/0128006455/ref=la_B0034NX0WA_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487268089&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...

herbstein 10y ago
I don't like that this book is posted. Sure, it shows you an actual renderer. But it doesn't show you how to incrementally build said renderer. That is probably what a lot of people are looking for. Peter Shirley has written three short books about raytracing that I would recommend as an alternative.
- snowcrshd 10y ago
  Could you provide links to Shirley's books, please? I'm interested in learning about CG.
  - farresito 10y ago
    Here's the books he has written: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~shirley/books/index.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~shirley/books/index.html
    - corysama 10y ago
      I think these are the short books herbstein was referring to: http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/ http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/
      - farresito 10y ago
        Oh, you are right, thank you. Makes sense. The books I checked from him had around 800 pages, which is anything but short :)
      - snowcrshd 10y ago
        Thanks! I'll check them out.
- yannickt 10y ago
  I've read Realistic Ray Tracing by Shirley, before reading the first edition of PBRT. RRT definitely has a more "incremental" approach, and is a lot more approachable than PBRT.