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interesting. do you have a go-to resource for how you would recommend somebody learning RT?
by arnorhs 5y ago
interesting. do you have a go-to resource for how you would recommend somebody learning RT?
- pixelpoet 5y agoCertainly, there was already a mention in this thread about Ray Tracing in One Weekend, which is pretty good (IMO mostly on account of its brevity): https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht... Also good is Scratchapixel: https://www.scratchapixel.com/ https://www.scratchapixel.com/ Once you've written a few derpy ray tracers, dig into https://pbrt.org/ https://pbrt.org/ I like to paraphrase a famous Go (the board game) proverb: "Get your first 5 ray tracers over with as quickly as possible."
- boppo1 5y agoThanks this is excellent! Funny, I play some Go but never heard any variation of that proverb. Maybe that's why I haven't made Dan 1 yet...
- pixelpoet 5y agoLose Your First 50 Games As Quickly As Possible: https://senseis.xmp.net/?LoseYourFirst50GamesAsQuicklyAsPossible https://senseis.xmp.net/?LoseYourFirst50GamesAsQuicklyAsPoss... I'm still DDK, but can at least appreciate some of the beauty of the game, and finding little parallels throughout life etc :)