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If you want fun miniproject may I suggest Peter Shirley's excellent mini-raytracing bookseries: Ray Tracing In One Weekend, Ray tracing the next week, and Ray Tracing, the Rest of Your Life: https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracing-Weekend-Minibooks-Book-ebook/dp/B01B5AODD8 https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracing-Weekend-Minibooks-Book-eb... If you get interested on rendering Matt Pharr & Co's Oscar winning "Physically based rendering" is a didactic masterpiece. https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation/dp/0128006455 https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl... The book is one of the best examples of how to combine high quality code and academic exposition together.