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title: "The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition"
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# The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by jamis buck
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    THIS is that metaphoric Pearl of Great Price
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019*

I just purchased the Kindle ebook version of this, right after I read the preview which was of David Buck's glowing foreword. David Buck, of course, is _the_ DKB who co-authored POV-Ray. So, look. I use Ubuntu because I am a programmer who REFUSES to use Windows. And my pet peeve with Kindle ebooks is that I have to read them by browsing Amazon's Cloud reader with a Linux compatible browser. But ... ANY book which David Buck recommends is a book I want to buy. And, so far, I have not been disappointed. From the first page, this book has that K&R "C Programming Language" vibe which inspired me to teach myself C, and which latter inspired me to teach myself C++ from reading Strustrup's  EXCELLENT book. BUY THIS BOOK. You will NOT regret it.

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    Perfect for those looking to practice programming in a new language
  

*by W***M on Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2020*

I previously bought Jamis' book on Mazes and enjoyed that, so this seemed like a great idea -- I was starting a new job, and needed a project to force myself to learn a new programming language as a result.This book isn't programming language specific -- don't expect guidance setting up your editor or IDE of choice here.What you do get, however -- a guided tour thru the process, background, and math involved in building a ray tracing application with the added bonus of being able to incorporate unit tests into your development following the examples given in the book.I've gone thru the book once so far using Python ( a language I was already familiar with ) -- now I'm working my way thru again using C#.I'd recommend this to anyone looking for practice programming projects (either in a familiar language, or as a tool to help master a new one. )

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    This book is a lot of fun!
  

*by O***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2020*

The book is awesome! It starts with the basic stuff, gets you to render images quickly and, mostly importantly, explains why you're spending time on implementing a particular piece of code.The book's tests-first approach pays off quickly. It keeps the bug count low and gives you the confidence that the math, shading and intersection code is solid and you can continue to build on top of it.The book's code is mostly pseudocode that is trivial to translate into whatever implementation language you pick. The language really doesn't matter. I used JavaScript and added multi-process rendering to speed things up. I might go back to this book in the future and use C. There are no rendering libraries, no OpenGL/DirectX/Vulkan code and custom book library code to deal with. You write everything from first principles. The images are by default rendered into a memory object and saved to disk in PPM format. I added PNG support because it was easy after implementing the book's PPM functionality.One thing the author does well is he guides you through the details until the point where he can take the training wheels off and you can implement features by yourself.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in computer graphics. It really is an excellent book!

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