The Ray Tracer Challenge by Buck, Jamis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

 Acknowledgments  Foreword  Getting Started

Who This Book Is For How to Read This Book Things to Watch Out For

1. Tuples, Points, and Vectors

Tuples Operations Putting It Together

2. Drawing on a Canvas

Representing Colors Implementing Color Operations Creating a Canvas Saving a Canvas Putting It Together

3. Matrices

Creating a Matrix Multiplying Matrices The Identity Matrix Transposing Matrices Inverting Matrices Putting It Together

4. Matrix Transformations

Translation Scaling Rotation Shearing Chaining Transformations Putting It Together

5. Ray-Sphere Intersections

Creating Rays Intersecting Rays with Spheres Tracking Intersections Identifying Hits Transforming Rays and Spheres Putting It Together

6. Light and Shading

Surface Normals Reflecting Vectors The Phong Reflection Model Putting It Together

7. Making a Scene

Building a World Defining a View Transformation Implementing a Camera Putting It Together

8. Shadows

Lighting in Shadows Testing for Shadows Rendering Shadows Putting It Together

9. Planes

Refactoring Shapes Implementing a Plane Putting It Together

10. Patterns

Making a Striped Pattern Transforming Patterns Generalizing Patterns Making a Gradient Pattern Making a Ring Pattern Making a 3D Checker Pattern Putting It Together

11. Reflection and Refraction

Reflection Transparency and Refraction Fresnel Effect Putting It Together

12. Cubes

Intersecting a Ray with a Cube Finding the Normal on a Cube Putting It Together

13. Cylinders

Intersecting a Ray with a Cylinder Finding the Normal on a Cylinder Truncating Cylinders Capped Cylinders Cones Putting It Together

14. Groups

Implementing Groups Finding the Normal on a Child Object Using Bounding Boxes to Optimize Large Scenes Putting It Together

15. Triangles

Triangles Wavefront OBJ Files Smooth Triangles Smooth Triangles in OBJ Files Putting It Together

16. Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)

Implementing CSG Coloring CSG Shapes Putting It Together

17. Next Steps

Area Lights and Soft Shadows Spotlights Focal Blur Motion Blur Anti-aliasing Texture Maps Normal Perturbation Torus Primitive Wrapping It Up

A1. Rendering the Cover Image