Ray Tracing Gems II
Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX
$180.55
- Paperback
858 pages
- Release Date
23 August 2021
Summary
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and more.
Ray Tracing Gems II is written by industry experts with a particular f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781484271872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1484271874 |
| Author: | Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald |
| Publisher: | APress |
| Imprint: | APress |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 858 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 2.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 254mm |
Adam Marrs
Adam Marrs is a Senior Graphics Engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science, has conducted graphics research in academia and industry, published at HPG, Eurographics, JCGT, and wrote for the GPU Zen 2 and Ray Tracing Gems books. He has shipped graphics code in AAA game titles and commercial game engines.
Peter Shirley is a Distinguished Engineer in the Research group at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science and has worked in academics, startup companies, and industry. He is the author of several books including the recent Ray Tracing in One Weekend series.
Ingo Wald is a Director, Ray Tracing, at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science, has a long history of ray tracing related research in both academia and industry, and is probably best known for authoring and co-authoring various papers and open-source software project related to rendering, visualization, data structures, and other topics that in one or another form usually involve ray tracing.
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