Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

This book series is great—I built an entire pathtracer in R (rayrender)* following this series. I'd recommend reading these books and then reading Matt Pharr's "Physically Based Rendering", also available for free online (http://www.pbr-book.org). Starting with a pathtracer based on Peter's book and then slowly integrating elements of PBRT (the pathtracer featured in PBR) as needed has been a great pedagogical exercise: RTIOW teaches using a bottom-up approach, while PBR very top-down. If you've written the…

I can also recommend this book when looking for something fun to implement while learning a new language. There is also the follow ups to this taking things a bit further: https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingTheNextWeek.htm... https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingTheRestOfYourLi... I did this ray tracing library in Rust inspired by these books: https://github.com/DanielPettersson/solstrale-rust And also a small UI using the lib: https://github.com/DanielPettersson/solstrale-desktop-rust Kind of…