Ray Tracing Gems II
Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX



Book Details
Authors | Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald |
Publisher | Apress |
Published | 2021 |
Edition | 1st |
Paperback | 858 pages |
Language | English |
ISBN-13 | 9781484271841, 9781484271872, 9781484271858 |
ISBN-10 | 148427184X, 1484271874, 1484271858 |
License | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
Book Description
This open access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and more.
Ray Tracing Gems II is written by industry experts with a particular focus on ray tracing, and it offers a practical means to master the new capabilities of current and future GPUs with the latest graphics APIs.
What You'll Learn:
- The latest ray tracing techniques for developing real-time applications in multiple domains
- Case studies from developers and studios who have shipped products that use real-time ray tracing.
- Guidance, advice and best practices for renderingapplications with various GPU-based ray tracing APIs (DirectX Raytracing, Vulkan Ray Tracing)
- High performance graphics for 3D graphics, virtual reality, animation, and more
Game and graphics developers who are looking to leverage the latest hardware and software tools for real-time rendering and ray tracing to enhance their applications across a variety of disciplines.
This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND), which means that you are free to copy and distribute it, as long as you attribute the source, don't use it commercially, and don't create modified versions.
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