{"id":4818,"date":"2018-09-03T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:55:41","slug":"ray-tracing-monday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/ray-tracing-monday-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Tracing Monday, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/ray-tracing-monday\/\">ray tracing monday<\/a> two weeks ago, so let&#8217;s do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s been two weeks, two resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/Real-Time_Rendering_4th-Real-Time_Ray_Tracing.pdf\">&#8220;Real-Time Ray Tracing&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; this is a free chapter (number 26) of <em>Real-Time Rendering<\/em> that we just finished and is free for download. 46 pages with a focus on DXR, but also including a detour through everyone&#8217;s favorite topic, spatial data structures for efficient ray tracing. Tomas, Angelo, and Seb did the heavy lifting on this one over the past 3 months, I helped edit and added bits where I could.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/raytracing.html\"><strong>Ray Tracing Resources Page<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; along the way we ran across lots of resources. With the chapter finished as of today, I was inspired to make a page of links, mostly things I don&#8217;t want to lose track of myself or found of historical interest. Please do feel free to send me awesome resources to add, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One entertaining thing I ran across was an image in <a href=\"https:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/gallery.html\">the gallery<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/\">Chunky<\/a>, a quite-good custom path tracer for Minecraft worlds:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/gallery\/Cornell.jpg\" alt=\"Cornell blox\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornell blox<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed the previous ray tracing monday two weeks ago, so let&#8217;s do it again. Since it&#8217;s been two weeks, two resources: &#8220;Real-Time Ray Tracing&#8221; &#8211; this is a free chapter (number 26) of Real-Time Rendering that we just finished and is free for download. 46 pages with a focus on DXR, but also including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","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=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}