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Re:Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation... by RandomBK on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:45AM (#30719570)
That 432-page textbook was a PhD Dissertation? Wow... I'm assuming this is not typical for most PhD theses?
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Re:Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation... by ur-whale on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:56PM (#30726084)
Veach is in no way a "typical" person.

IIRC, he moved on from inventing a brand new rendering methodology inspired from oldie research in nuclear physics [0] to designing the S2 system at Google [1] to building one of the largest money-making machines in the ads world at Google [2][3].

Not exactly your average engineer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Veach

[2] https://uwaterloo.ca/math/people-profiles/eric-veach

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/unsung-google-heros-2011-5?r...

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