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		pixelpoet on Jan 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finding your home in game graphics programming Certainly, there was already a mention in this thread about Ray Tracing in One Weekend, which is pretty good (IMO mostly on account of its brevity): https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht... Also good is Scratchapixel: https://www.scratchapixel.com/ Once you've written a few derpy ray tracers, dig into https://pbrt.org/ I like to paraphrase a famous Go (the board game) proverb: "Get your first 5 ray tracers over with as quickly as possible."

boppo1 on Jan 1, 2022 [–]

Thanks this is excellent! Funny, I play some Go but never heard any variation of that proverb. Maybe that's why I haven't made Dan 1 yet...

pixelpoet on Jan 1, 2022 | [–]

Lose Your First 50 Games As Quickly As Possible: https://senseis.xmp.net/?LoseYourFirst50GamesAsQuicklyAsPoss...

I'm still DDK, but can at least appreciate some of the beauty of the game, and finding little parallels throughout life etc :)

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