Comments on: “Principles of Digital Image Synthesis” now free for download

By: Real-Time Rendering · Thanks, Iliyan!

Real-Time Rendering · Thanks, Iliyan! — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:05:00 +0000

[...] my post about PoDIS now being free, I asked for a volunteer to reformat the two PDFs into a nicer single file. Iliyan Georgiev, a PhD [...]

By: Shadow007

Shadow007 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:33:30 +0000

Great !!!

By: ingenious

ingenious — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:46:33 +0000

Have a little more patience, guys. The improved (searchable and more) version is coming very soon. You’re gonna like it

By: Philippe Leprince

Philippe Leprince — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:14:34 +0000

Thanks Eric. I just wish publishers would wake up and aknowledge to the potential of ebooks for niche technical content…

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:00:59 +0000

Philippe: sorry, no PDF from the publisher, and Andrew’s files are in an old version of LaTeX that doesn’t compile any more. The consolidation process (currently being done by “ingenious”) may be able to get us a searchable PDF by using OCR, though the first attempt caused the file to balloon in size (it jumps to 280 MB!). He’s figuring it out.

By: Philippe Leprince

Philippe Leprince — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:13:43 +0000

That’s awesome. Volume 2 mysteriously disappeared from my desk a few years back : now it is in my Mendeley collection.
Any chance to get a pdf from the original publisher ? Having a searchable pdf would be so much better…

By: Real-Time Rendering · How to Put a Book on Google Books

Real-Time Rendering · How to Put a Book on Google Books — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:12:06 +0000

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By: Shadow007

Shadow007 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:29:22 +0000

What would be even better (if possible) would be an additional “EPUB” version of the book, if Mr Glassner were allright with it …

By: ingenious

ingenious — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:15:59 +0000

Great news Eric, thanks for the tip!

About the bonus project. I’d already done the large part of it when I came back to this post and read it to the end What’s left is to fold in the errata, run OCR on the PDF, create PDF bookbarks from the TOC. I’m not sure if I’ll have time for the last step though. Anyway, it’d be great if I can get the unpublished errata somehow (maybe you can contact/email me through my WordPress account?).

By: Larry Gritz

Larry Gritz — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:18:21 +0000

Thanks for this news! Would you believe that not two hours ago, I was looking at my copies of these very books on my shelf, thinking, “those would be ideal to just keep a PDF on my laptop rather than taking up shelf space.” I was in the middle of scanning reams and reams of old xeroxed technical papers that have been growing in my file cabinets since grad school, and am now really in love with the idea of occasional-reference material being digital.

BTW, no fancy program is necessary to concatenate PDF files — every Mac comes with this Python script:
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py
that basically is ‘cat’ for PDF (um, except it wants a “-o outputname” rather than going to the stdout). I’m happy to do it for you if you don’t have easy access to a Mac.

But maybe if somebody has a *really* fancy program (I don’t), they could actually edit the PDF in place to fold the errata right into the main PDF’s text. I think we’d be happy to have a few ragged margins in exchange for the corrections being patched in.

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but… how is this kosher with MKP? Do they no longer sell the book and don’t care?