{"id":5515,"date":"2021-08-05T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2021-08-05T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:50:57","slug":"some-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/some-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting books have come out recently. Full disclosure: I have an indirect connection to the first and third.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First one&#8217;s free to download: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/raytracinggems\/rtg2\/index.html\">Ray Tracing Gems II<\/a>. <\/em>That link also notes where the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Apress\/Ray-Tracing-Gems-II\">Github code repo<\/a> is, shows the Table of Contents, etc. You can also download individual chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-1-4842-7185-8\">from Apress&#8217;s site<\/a>. Oh, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-ray-tracing-gems-2-book\/\">here&#8217;s a funny review<\/a> from PC Gamer.<\/li>\n<li>Second one&#8217;s a reasonable introduction to the basic ideas behind 3D computer graphics: <a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/computer-graphics-scratch\"><em>Computer Graphics from Scratch<\/em><\/a>. This book has nothing to do with the computer language called Scratch (which No Starch also sells <a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/catalog\/scratch\">books about<\/a>). There&#8217;s a free sample chapter on that page. Also, I noticed today that all No Starch Press books are 35% off until August 9th. I&#8217;m appreciating this publisher more and more, as they offer their books in a variety of unprotected e-book formats, including PDF.<\/li>\n<li>Third one&#8217;s not about 3D graphics, but written by a graphics luminary: <a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/deep-learning-visual-approach\"><em>Deep Learning: A Visual Approach<\/em><\/a>, by Andrew Glassner (who also wrote a foreword for <em>Ray Tracing Gems II<\/em>). This is an equation-light introduction to the field, instead using lots of figures to build up your understanding. There&#8217;s a free sample chapter and also a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blueberrymusic\/Deep-Learning-A-Visual-Approach\">Github link<\/a>. This repo has three more free chapters, about running scikit-learn and Keras. It also includes 870 figures from the book, all under the MIT License for reuse.\u00a0Again from No Starch Press, so their discount applies, there&#8217;s a DRM-free PDF, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and one more page from No Starch Press that made me laugh:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/catalog\/manga\">their manga guides<\/a>, such as this one<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manga.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manga-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check them out. As usual, they each have a free chapter available. From my brief sampling, they look fun but don&#8217;t appear dumbed down and are not shy about using proper math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting books have come out recently. Full disclosure: I have an indirect connection to the first and third. First one&#8217;s free to download: Ray Tracing Gems II. That link also notes where the Github code repo is, shows the Table of Contents, etc. You can also download individual chapters from Apress&#8217;s site. Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","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=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}