Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

Re:Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ by whartung on Thursday July 23, 2026 @07:30PM (#49029486)

Is the Foley/Van Dam book still a go to resource for this? It seems it was updated in 2013, but, honestly, I’m more familiar with the ‘82 edition that was dedicated to 2D.

Back in the day, it was The Book for computer graphics.

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Re:Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ by pjmlp on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:52AM (#49032019)

I also learnt with the second edition, I own the last one from 2013, it is alright.

The languages have evolved across editions, from Pascal, to C, to C and C++, and a bit of C# as well on the last one.

Naturally it misses on several new concepts, however I would assert it has quite valuable content.

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Re:Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ by momocowcow on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:19AM (#49032665)

I haven't looked at my copy in years. To me, the book is a peculiar encyclopedia with some historical importance.

I found the course note from this github to be a good refresher on the subject. While the repo source code style is distasteful to me and their old-school rasteriser in the course is too naive and unoptimal, it's still a better read than Foley I'd assume :)

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