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Re:Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation... by magicalhippo on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:27PM (#30716088)
One of the best technical books I've read. A lot of books on the subject are math heavy but lacking in implementation detail, others gloss over the math and implement the easy stuff.

This book has a great mix IMHO, going into the math as well as tricky implementation details yet in a very approachable manner.

Lots of great times were had as a result of this book.

Re:Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation... by antibus on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:21AM (#30719759)
I agree. I also started this book. But in order to learn, I have to implement it myself. However, if everything is already provided, how not to fall into the trap and just copy and paste everything? Giving you the illusion to you learned it?

I read in another book about how to learn, there is something called the illusion of competence. If you passively read something a couple of times, you will think you learned and understood it. But in reality you just recognized it. Without the external triggers and clues you couldn't solve it.