Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation - Hardcover

Matt Pharr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123750792 ISBN 13: 9780123750792

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2010

Synopsis

Physically Based Rendering, 2nd Edition describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation. A method - known as 'literate programming'- combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education. Through the ideas and software in this book, you will learn to design and employ a full-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery.

*New sections on subsurface scattering, Metropolis light transport, precomputed light transport, multispectral rendering, and much more.

*Includes a companion site complete with source code for the rendering system described in the book, with support for Windows, OS X, & Linux. Please visit, www.pbrt.org.

*Code and text are tightly woven together through a unique indexing feature that lists each function, variable, and method on the page that they are first described.

About this title

Review:

An updated and expanded edition of the definitive rendering reference!

About the Author:

Matt Pharr is works as an engineer for Neoptica, a San Francisco start-up, where he works on interactive graphics. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at NVIDIA and was a co-founder of Exluna, where he developed off-line rendering software and investigated applications of graphics hardware to high-quality rendering. He holds a BS degree from Yale University and a PhD from the Stanford Graphics Laboratory under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan, where he researched both theoretical and systems issues related to rendering and has written a series of SIGGRAPH papers on these topics.

Greg Humphreys is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where his research focuses on interactive visualization of very large datasets. Greg has a B.S. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. His doctoral dissertation "A Stream Processing Approach to Interactive Graphics on Clusters of Workstations" showed that it was possible to build scalable interactive graphics systems using only commodity components. His cluster rendering software called "Chromium" is in widespread use in research and industry labs around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0123750792
• ISBN 13: 9780123750792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1240