Advanced Global Illumination Paperback – 30 Sept. 2020

Going beyond the basic lightning models (Gouraud and Phong, among others) means passing from a phenomenological model to a deductive one. Also means passing from a simple geometrical models to more advanced ones. This text is an excellent guide to that mathematical world, inside it you will not find the ready-to-use algorithms but the mathematical models on which they are based, well exposed and organized with a precious bibliography. There are numerous hints to help you implementing the models on your code but will only make sense to you if you do have a good mathematical background.Not a book I would recommend to the average programmer but excellent if rendering is your job and you are aiming to the best.

If you want to go through the maths and techniques of global illumination this is probably the most in-depth book you can get. You can find some of the content in the 4th edition of Real-time Rendering, but that book still refers you to this one.

Ouvrage de qualité dont la reliure est d'une excellente facture. On aurait aimé (enfin, lorsqu'on débute)davantage d'explications sur les méthodes QMC et d'autres modèles que les classiques Cook & Torrance et Ward.Les méthodes de MC / Path Tracing y sont bien détaillées avec le source en C++. Un livre à avoir, l'un desmeilleurs.

I am disappointed with the condition of the book I received. There are noticeable black stains on the back cover and some pages inside the book. Additionally, I found wrinkles on approximately 50 pages. Despite the fast shipping, the overall state of the book is not good, which is disappointing.

The book itself is great. Everything is explained very clear, and there are enough examples to get rid of any uncertainties you had.Now, I actually wanted to give this 3 stars, but it wouldn't do the book much justice, because it's not the book's fault.The reason for the 3 stars is the Kindle edition, which simply sucks. (Sorry for my choice of words)Everything in the Kindle edition seems fine, until you encounter formulas. When you zoom, the normal text scales just as it's supposed to, the formulas don't. Result: big, nice, readable text and small, have-to-make-an-effort-to-read formulas.And I really don't understand why it wouldn't scale accordingly, the formulas are clearly vectorized...tl;dr Buy the physical book, not the Kindle version