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From: xxw8409@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
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Subject: RE: Ray Tracing Beginner
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Date: 4 Dec 90 20:17:43 GMT
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>        I'd like to write a Ray Tracing program to run on a PC.  Can
>        anyone recommend a good article or text book that's not too
>        heady for me to start with? 

There's a very nice book called 'Fractal Programming and Ray Tracing with
C++'by Roger T. Stevens and published by M&T Books. The book comes with a disk
of sample programs for Zortech C++ but can be modified to be used with Turbo
C++. The text is very easy to understand and you only need some rudimentary
knowledge of C and computer graphics.

							- Fractalman


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