{"id":3794,"date":"2014-06-19T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:50:10","slug":"gpu-pro-5-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/gpu-pro-5-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"GPU Pro 5 is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, the title says it all, the book\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/GPU-Pro-Advanced-Rendering-Techniques\/dp\/1482208636?tag=realtimerenderin\">GPU Pro 5<\/a><\/strong> is shipping. Sadly, there&#8217;s no &#8220;Look Inside&#8221; for the book on Amazon; I&#8217;ll hope they at least put the Table of Contents there. You can find a rough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/product\/isbn\/9781482208634\">Table of Contents on the CRC site<\/a>; rough in that you can&#8217;t see the number of pages for each article. A few\u00a0articles are quite lengthy: <em>Physically Base Area Lights<\/em> is 34 pages long, <em>Hi-Z Screen-Space Cone-Traced Reflections<\/em> is an incredible 44. The rest are in the 10-20 page range.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a taste of the book at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gpupro.blogspot.com\/\">GPU Pro blog<\/a>, it has previews of a large number of the articles. At $70 this is not a casual purchase, but if you&#8217;re a practitioner and just one article saves you 2 hours, the book&#8217;s more than paid for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I was amused to see the following, a model from <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.cs.williams.edu\/data\/meshes.xml\">Morgan McGuire&#8217;s high-quality model repository<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; hey, that&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/vokselia.com\">our world<\/a>! (And you thought I was done with Minecraft references here.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VoxeliaMC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VoxeliaMC.jpg\" alt=\"VoxeliaMC\" width=\"704\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VoxeliaMC.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VoxeliaMC-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, the title says it all, the book\u00a0GPU Pro 5 is shipping. Sadly, there&#8217;s no &#8220;Look Inside&#8221; for the book on Amazon; I&#8217;ll hope they at least put the Table of Contents there. You can find a rough Table of Contents on the CRC site; rough in that you can&#8217;t see the number of pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[590,211,281],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-resources","tag-book","tag-gpu","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","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=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}