{"id":246,"date":"2017-06-27T21:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2017-06-27T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:54:34","slug":"ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Ray Tracing in One Weekend Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finished reading excellent ray tracing books by Peter Shirley:\u00a0<\/a>Ray Tracing in One Weekend (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 1) <\/a>and\u00a0<\/span>Ray Tracing: the Next Week (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 2)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0I also finished<\/span>\u00a0coding the example ray tracing project from the books. There is also third book in the series that I have bought for kindle and hope to start reading soon. The books are very good introduction to ray tracing and very clearly written with clear examples. I am planning to improve the project that I coded while following the examples in the books. I am planning to first add multi threading support, writing image files to different formats and reading .obj files before moving to the third book. I added my code to github<\/a>, I have constructed the project a little differently than in the book examples, mainly naming of files and classes and their methods to suit my coding style.<\/p>\n

Some ray traced images I rendered:<\/p>\n

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Finished reading excellent ray tracing books by Peter Shirley:\u00a0Ray Tracing in One Weekend (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 1) and\u00a0Ray Tracing: the Next Week (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 2)\u00a0\u00a0I also finished\u00a0coding the example ray tracing project from the books. There is also third book in the series that I have bought for kindle and hope to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,10,11],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c","tag-computer-graphics","tag-ray-tracing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7k3DT-3Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heikkili.kapsi.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}