This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the adve

The creation of ever more realistic 3-D images is central to the development of computer graphics. The ray tracing technique has become one of the most popular

With the increase in computing speed and due to the high quality of the optical effects it achieves, ray tracing is becoming a popular choice for interactive an

Accompanying disk contains ... "all of the code from all four volumes."--Page 4 of cover.