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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation 3rd Edition

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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, Third Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system and its practical implementation. Through a method known as 'literate programming', the authors combine human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education.

Through the ideas and software in this book, users will learn to design and employ a fully-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery. This completely updated and revised edition includes new coverage on ray-tracing hair and curves primitives, numerical precision issues with ray tracing, LBVHs, realistic camera models, the measurement equation, and much more. It is a must-have, full color resource on physically-based rendering.
  • Presents up-to-date revisions of the seminal reference on rendering, including new sections on bidirectional path tracing, numerical robustness issues in ray tracing, realistic camera models, and subsurface scattering
  • Provides the source code for a complete rendering system allowing readers to get up and running fast
  • Includes a unique indexing feature, literate programming, that lists the locations of each function, variable, and method on the page where they are first described
  • Serves as an essential resource on physically-based rendering
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  8. Print length
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"Physically Based Rendering is a terrific book. It covers all the marvelous math, fascinating physics, practical software engineering, and clever tricks that are necessary to write a state-of-the-art photorealistic renderer. All of these topics are dealt with in a clear and pedagogical manner without omitting the all-important practical details."
--Per Christensen, Senior Software Developer, RenderMan Products, Pixar Animation Studios

"This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize."
--Donald Knuth

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This comprehensive, updated, and expanded edition of the bestselling flagship book on physically-based rendering systems provides a complete guide to both concepts and code, including ray-tracing hair and curves primitives, numerical precision issues with ray tracing, LBVHs, realistic camera models, the measurement equation, and much more

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0128006455
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd edition (November 25, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1266 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780128006450
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0128006450
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 2.1 x 9.4 inches
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    Greg Humphreys is a Software Lead at NVIDIA where he works on OptiX, a high performance GPU raytracing engine. Part raytracer, part compiler, part runtime binary modification system, and part operating system, OptiX allows users to create very high performance raytracers that adapt to both the GPU architecture they are running on as well as the dataset they are currently rendering.

    Previously Greg has worked at Aggregate Knowledge, a startup company working in analytics, data mining, recommendations, and online advertising. Greg was also a professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, and received his Ph.D. from the Stanford Graphics Lab.

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    Wenzel Jakob is an assistant professor at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences. His research interests revolve around material appearance modeling, rendering algorithms, and the high-dimensional geometry of light paths. Wenzel obtained his Ph.D. at Cornell University under the supervision of Steve Marschner, after which he joined ETH Zürich for postdoctoral studies under the supervision of Olga Sorkine Hornung. Wenzel is also the lead developer of the Mitsuba renderer, a research-oriented rendering system.

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    Matt Pharr is a Software Engineer at Google, where he works in virtual reality. He was previously a Principal Engineer at Intel after Intel acquired Neoptica, which he co-founded. Before Neoptica, Matt co-founded Exluna (acquired by NVIDIA), worked in Pixar's Rendering R&D group, and received his PhD from the Stanford Graphics Lab.

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  • Indrikov Vadim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute classic, can't name other book which could compete with this one
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    Was happy reader of 1st edition of this book, this time decided to buy kindle edition, because this one do not only replaces all other books on this subject, but in a paper form could replace gym too.

    About the book itself - buy it, don't think. Frederick Brooks said once that the programming code is the best way to say what the program is doing, but this book written in English and on pseudo-code, understandable enough for inquiring non programmer reader.

    There is many angry reviews about printing quality.
    Kindle edition is a little bit blurry and looks more like pdf book when you read it in Kindle (no scaling, no page fit). But I use 12 inches iPad, so it's not a big problem, however...
    Just warning.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
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    Nice book .. delivered on time and in a good condition
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    I haven't read the entire book but so far it appears to be a week thought out and thorough resource.
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    The best. Some spots are really technical and will require additional resources if you aren't familiar with the background.
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  • An Amazon User
    5.0 out of 5 stars Have good detail stuff
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    Has good detailed stuff, code snippets and is over all a good book for the experienced and inexperienced user. I recommend it!
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  • Francisco Blanco
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
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    PBR book is amazing, well explained and full of techniques. I am really glad because I have bought it
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  • ricky
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    Fantastic textbook. Super helpful when going through the code
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  • Fabio Zhang
    1.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book and bad printing quality
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    I really like this book especially after I read few chapters of my friend's book, I decided to buy one. However, the quality disappointed me when I received it. Compared to my friend's one, my book's printing is terrible with cheap paper quality (see attached picture).
    And the publisher information is slightly different that my book has one more sentence vs. original one, is this deliberated or a typo?
    Not a good shopping experience :(
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    1.0 out of 5 stars
    Awesome book and bad printing quality

    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018
    I really like this book especially after I read few chapters of my friend's book, I decided to buy one. However, the quality disappointed me when I received it. Compared to my friend's one, my book's printing is terrible with cheap paper quality (see attached picture).
    And the publisher information is slightly different that my book has one more sentence vs. original one, is this deliberated or a typo?
    Not a good shopping experience :(
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    5.0 out of 5 stars my son is very happy with this book
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book it has so much resource infact i am ...
    Reviewed in India on November 17, 2017
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    Great book it has so much resource infact i am planning to give four start since I was not able to understand. But later changed my mind because it has valuable information,techniques and good code snippets. I also mailed authors and they replied back. But one thing I would like to tell code samples in this are difficult to understand for a person if person is not a graphics programmer. Also for all chapters if author can release a youtube video tutorial as paid version with mathematics concept explained it would be more good,that's the trend now because reading takes more time,difficult to understand specific mathematics models just with images in the book and sometimes people feel sleepy. Before reading this book please read RayTraceFromGroundUp book that teaches you the basics. Overall book is awesome.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars The reference book in offline rendering
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    This update of PBRT book is awesome!
    Moreover, the authors have done a pretty good job on the code update compare to previous PBRT code versions.
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