The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer

by Jamis Buck

Book Overview

Brace yourself for a fun challenge: build a photorealistic 3D renderer from scratch! It's easier than you think. In just a couple of weeks, build a ray-tracer that renders beautiful scenes with shadows, reflections, brilliant refraction effects, and subjects composed of various graphics primitives: spheres, cubes, cylinders, triangles, and more. With each chapter, implement another piece of the puzzle and move the renderer that much further forward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680502719
• ISBN13: 9781680502718
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"