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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: raytrace help
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Date: 14 Nov 88 14:28:00 GMT
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>	Does anyone out there care to recommend a good reference on
>raytracing?

Try:
	Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics
	by David F. Rogers
	McGraw Hill		ISBN 0-07-053534-5

This is the only book that I have ever bought sight unseen (based only upon
the recommendations of others in this newsgroup), I haven't regretted it for a
second.  I highly recommend it.

This book gives loads of information about ray tracers, scan line methods,
painter's algorithms, etc. and gives you the flow charts and descriptions of
data structures that you need to implement them.

John Munsch