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Blog Graphics Books Intersections Portal Ray tracing Resources USD & glTF WebGL Last changed: January 21, 2024 This is the main resources page for the book Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition , by Tomas Akenine-Möller , Eric Haines , Naty Hoffman , Angelo Pesce , Michał Iwanicki , and Sébastien Hillaire , 1198 pages, from A K Peters/CRC Press , ISBN-13: 978-1138627000, ISBN-10: 1138627003, list price $89.95 ( Amazon $53.07 , Look inside ; Kindle $71.99 , free sample ; Google Play $79.96 , free sample ; CRC Press $99.95, eBook $89.96). View cover . BibTeX entry . Korean edition available from the Kyokobook store , YES24 online bookstore , and Aladin online bookstore . Search site and resources, such as the Advances in Real-Time Rendering course notes: The red betta fish in our website’s banner is by Elinor Quittner , and can be viewed in 3D . The Amazon "Look inside" link and the free Kindle sample includes around the first 80 pages of the book, including the first three chapters. The Bibliography is available online with links to the entries. The Table of Contents , Preface , the Introduction , Bibliography , and Index are available in a PDF . You can also view the Table of Contents below . Two chapters and two appendices are available only online, for free: Collision Detection - The 3rd edition’s chapter on this subject has been fully updated, but could not fit in the bounds of the physical book, so we offer it here, along with its hyperlinked bibliography . Real-Time Ray Tracing - API support for this area was announced in March 2018 , too late for inclusion in the book, so we wrote an additional chapter about the subject as a whole. Its hyperlinked bibliography is available. Appendices - The two appendices, Some Linear Algebra and Trigonometry , also had to be cut from the physical book. They have both been updated (a small bit) from the 3rd edition. The hyperlinked bibliography is also available. We talk more about changes in this new edition on our blog. Information about the previous, third edition of this book can be found here . Other pages and resources hosted here: A blog about new developments and our own explorations in the field. We’re also on Twitter : Tomas , Eric , Naty , Angelo , Michał , and Sébastien . The bibliography of the book, with hyperlinked resources (the Third Second , and First Edition bibliographies are also available). The book corrections area (for all editions). A gallery of over 400 of the 676 figures in the fourth edition, provided for Fair Use . Read the information there and our blog for more details. A portal page for key real-time web resources. Our book recommendation list for real-time computer graphics; we would appreciate your comments. The object/object intersection page for information on 3D object intersections. Tomas’ Powerpoint slides for a semester’s course derived from the second edition of book. Dated in spots, but useful as a place to start. The 3rd Edition resources page has been kept around just in case. This page is no longer maintained, so expect dead links and stale information. Much of this site is on Github , if you want to submit any fixes. Table of Contents The rest of this page is dedicated to providing information related to the book’s contents: new techniques, worthwhile websites, etc. This page is organized into categories based on the table of contents. We also have a portal page that is an extremely condensed set of some of the best links available, as well as API-specific resources. Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Graphics Rendering Pipeline Chapter 3 The Graphics Processing Unit Chapter 4 Transforms Chapter 5 Shading Basics Chapter 6 Texturing Chapter 7 Shadows Chapter 8 Light and Color Chapter 9 Physically Based Shading Chapter 10 Local Illumination Chapter 11 Global Illumination Chapter 12 Image-Space Effects Chapter 13 Beyond Polygons Chapter 14 Volumetric and Translucency Rendering Chapter 15 Non-Photorealistic Rendering Chapter 16 Polygonal Techniques Chapter 17 Curves and Curved Surfaces Chapter 18 Pipeline Optimization Chapter 19 Acceleration Algorithms Chapter 20 Efficient Shading Chapter 21 Virtual and Augmented Reality Chapter 22 Intersection Test Methods Chapter 23 Graphics Hardware Chapter 24 The Future Chapter 25 Collision Detection ( download chapter ) Chapter 26 Real-Time Ray Tracing ( download chapter ) Linear Algebra ( download chapter ) Trigonometry ( download chapter ) Bibliography ( page link ) Introduction Our book is something of a practitioner’s manual; it assume some basic knowledge of the field. For the basics, and not so basics, you may want to start at Scratchapixel (you can skip some of the Mathematics sections to start). For a video introduction to computer graphics from the ground up, see Cem Yuksel’s lectures at the University of Utah. How to pronounce all these graphics terms? Here’s a guide . Remember, "SIGGRAPH" rhymes with "pig laugh". For Bézier, Gouraud, Fresnel," listen here . There is not much else related to the Introduction of the book to put here, so we’ll list some free graphics books that may be of interest. See our graphics book list for upcoming, recent, and recommended books. These are books that are FREE ONLINE , ordered by publication date. Do not be fooled by the price; all but one were published as physical books and each has valuable information. Physically Based Rendering, Fourth Edition: from Theory to Implementation , by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys, The MIT Press, March 2023 ( more information ), Patreon page , read for free . Ray Tracing Gems II: Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX , edited by Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald, Apress, August 4, 2021 ( Book’s website , publisher’s page ), download for free . Developing Graphics Frameworks with Python and OpenGL , by Lee Stemkoski and Michael Pascale, CRC Press, July 7, 2021 ( Publisher’s website ). Computer Graphics from Scratch: A Programmer’s Introduction to 3D Rendering , by Gabriel Gambetta, No Starch Press, May 18, 2021 ( publisher’s page includes download of chapter 3 , Google Books sample ), read for free . The Graphics Codex , by Morgan McGuire, 2011-2021: main site . Learn OpenGL - Graphics Programming: Learn modern OpenGL graphics programming in a step-by-step fashion , by Joey de Vries, Kendall & Welling, June 2020 ( Book’s website, with free downloadable version ; also, the beginnings of a new book, Learn Vulkan ). Ray Tracing Gems , edited by Eric Haines and Tomas Akenine-Möller, Apress , March 2019 ( Book’s website , publisher’s page ), download for free . Ray Tracing in One Weekend , by Peter Shirley, January 2016 ( Code , tweet , blog ), download for free , read (corrected version) for free . Ray Tracing: the Next Week , by Peter Shirley, March 2016 ( Code , tweet , blog ), download for free , read (corrected version) for free . Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life , by Peter Shirley, March 2016 ( Code , tweet , blog ), download for free , read (corrected version) for free . WebGL Insights , edited by Patrick Cozzi, CRC Press, July 2015 ( book’s website , blog ), download for free . Immersive Linear Algebra , by J. Ström, K. Åström, and T. Akenine-Möller, 2015-2019 (an interactive book on the subject), read for free . Computer Vision Metrics: Survey, Taxonomy, and Analysis , by Scott Krig, Apress, July 2014 ( table of contents and free download ; see our blog for options). Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming , by Jason L. McKesson, 2012. download for free 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Edition , by Fletcher Dunn and Ian Parberry, AK Peters, November 2011, read for free . Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications , by Richard Szeliski, Springer, Nov. 2010, download for free . GPU Gems 3 , edited by Hubert Nguyen, August 2007, read for free , code . NVIDIA wanted people to learn about shaders, so this excellent book being free. GPU Gems 2: Techniques for Graphics and Compute...