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| 1 | +Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life |
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| 6 | +Getting the Book |
| 7 | +----------------- |
| 8 | +You can download the PDF version of the book from Eric Haine's [Real-Time Rendering] site. |
| 9 | +Alternatively, you can purchase a Kindle version of this series from [Amazon.com]. Half of the |
| 10 | +proceeds of these sales go to [Hack the Hood], a really neat organization. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +Overview |
| 13 | +--------- |
| 14 | +In [Ray Tracing In One Weekend] and [Ray Tracing: the Next Week], you built a “real” ray tracer. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +In this volume, I assume you will be pursuing a career related to ray tracing and we will dive |
| 17 | +into the math of creating a very serious ray tracer. When you are done you should be ready to |
| 18 | +start messing with the many serious commercial ray tracers underlying the movie and product |
| 19 | +design industries. There are many many things I do not cover in this short volume; I dive into |
| 20 | +only one of many ways to write a Monte Carlo rendering program. I don’t do shadow rays |
| 21 | +(instead I make rays more likely to go toward lights), bidirectional methods, Metropolis |
| 22 | +methods, or photon mapping. What I do is speak in the language of the field that studies |
| 23 | +those methods. I think of this book as a deep exposure that can be your first of many, and it |
| 24 | +will equip you with some of the concepts, math, and terms you will need to study the others. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +As before, www.in1weekend.com will have further readings and references. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +Acknowledgements |
| 29 | +----------------- |
| 30 | +Thanks to Dave Hart and Jean Buckley for help on the original manuscript. Thanks to Paul Melis, |
| 31 | +Nakata Daisuke, Filipe Scur, Vahan Sosoyan, and Matthew Heimlich for finding errors. |
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| 34 | + |
| 35 | +[Amazon.com]: https://amazon.com/dp/B01DN58P8C |
| 36 | +[Hack the Hood]: http://www.hackthehood.org |
| 37 | +[Ray Tracing In One Weekend]: https://github.com/petershirley/raytracinginoneweekend |
| 38 | +[Ray Tracing: The Next Week]: https://github.com/petershirley/raytracingthenextweek |
| 39 | +[Real-Time Rendering]: http://www.realtimerendering.com/#books-small-table |
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