{"id":1008,"date":"2010-02-08T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-02-09T05:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:48:59","slug":"new-books-and-reworked-books-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/new-books-and-reworked-books-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books and Reworked Books Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been reworking our books page<\/a> to take longer to download, I mean, to be more visually interesting and readable. Honestly, the old one was a dense, hard to view pile of book titles. Just adding whitespace between titles is a plus. We’ve also added one book to the\u00a0recommended list<\/a>, Eric Lengyel’s math book. Anyway, go\u00a0check it out<\/a>. On our main resources page we’ve put all\u00a0the free books online into one section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are some new books coming out that look interesting. For those of you going to GDC, there should be some worthwhile offerings to check out on the floor.<\/p>\n

The Programming Massively Parallel Processors<\/a><\/em> book by Kirk (Chief Scientist at NVIDIA) and Hwu (professor at U. of Illinois) is out by now, as of 3 days ago, and is currently sold out on Amazon<\/a>. It’s undoubtedly derived from the course they co-taught at Illinois. CUDA and Tesla are the keywords here. Hwu’s current course lectures are here<\/a> and here<\/a>; I don’t know how they compare to the book, but these newer (non-Kirk) lectures seem more general. I look forward to learning more about this volume—if you have it, please do leave a comment (or better yet, a review on Amazon).<\/p>\n

Wolfgang Engel and all have a new book out, GPU Pro<\/a><\/em>. He’s using a new publisher, so it does not have the ShaderX <\/em>name, but effectively is ShaderX 8. <\/em>Finally, the book is color throughout vs. previous ShaderX’s. I’ve skimmed some of the articles, and it’s in the same vein as others in the series: a range from practical advice to wild ideas. I can just about guarantee that professional interactive graphics programmers will find something of interest—I found about 5 articles off the bat I want to read through, and plenty of others I should at least skim. More info at the blog for this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Game Programming Gems 8<\/a><\/em> adds to this long-lived series. I haven’t seen it yet, so no comments; Adam Lake’s blog<\/a> may give updates on status, contents, etc. This series has slowly drifted to including much more non-graphical material over the years. Understandable, but Adam’s someone I think as a graphics guy, so I’m selfishly hoping for more graphics and less the other stuff. My view on collection books like ShaderX and this is simple: an hour of a programmer’s time is about the same as the cost of a book, so if the book saves an hour, it’s paid for itself. Of course, there’s the time cost of reading the articles of interest, but still…<\/p>\n

Second editions have been announced for\u00a0Physically Based Rendering Techniques<\/a><\/em> and High Dynamic Range Imaging<\/a><\/em>. PBRT is more offline rendering oriented, but is a great book because it takes a stand; the authors say what they do for a real system and why they made that choice, vs. listing all possible techniques. It also presents about the longest literate programming<\/a> presentation published. I have a short review<\/a> of the first edition. The HDRI book is nice in that it pulls together the various research articles out there into one place, with a coherent thread to it all. The second edition’s new material is described on its Amazon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been reworking our books page to take longer to download, I mean, to be more visually interesting and readable. Honestly, the old one was a dense, hard to view pile of book titles. Just adding whitespace between titles is a plus. We’ve also added one book to the\u00a0recommended list, Eric Lengyel’s math book. Anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,87,259],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-books","tag-cuda","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}