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# Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping 1st Edition

**Brand:** henrik wann jensen
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    Excellent introduction
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013*

This book provides a excellent introduction to the subject of ray-tracing. It is well organised, and covers a lot of ground. To fully understand the technicalities you should be comfortable with intergrals, goniometry and linear algebra. However, this mostly applies to chapter two, and most material is quite easy to understand intuitively, I believe. After reading the book I felt that ray-tracing really isn't such a complex matter as I though it would be (although it is far from trivial!), and felt like it would be fun to try and write a ray-tracer as a hobby project. Regarding such a project, the book is all-inclusive, even providing some source code and data for some glass objects.Some more example images of ray-traced scene, even if black&white only, would make the book even more fun to read.

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    good content printed poorly on low quality paper
  

*by X***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2010*

The content of the book is not a problem and is the definitive place to look if you want to implement photon mapping. But the physical quality of the book is so bad that it's literally down-right pirated book quality. You can get the same printing quality by just sending the original hard cover version of the book (which is unfortunately out of print and is sold at $270 by some sellers on Amazon) through a copy machine, and even then you still get better paper. I expected the paperback version of the book to have lower quality than the hardcover one, but didn't expected to be this low.

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    This is the best technical book I have ever read
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2005*

Photon mapping is an extremely powerful global illumination algorithm. It is probably the most important thing that happened to rendering in the last ten years, in my humble oppinion.Its inventer, Jensen did an exceptional job at explaining it with this book. The way the book is put togather is sublime. It goes into detailed explanation of the foundations and previous works in computer graphics to be pertinent rather than tedious. If you understand the math that he presented to you, great! But what's really cool is that the math will tend to make more and more sense intuitively as you read and implement the algorithm. You will probably need some form of computer science background (analysis of algorithms and at least one computer graphics course) to fully appreciate it. But anyone should be able to implement a photon mapper in C++ after reading the book. Jensen even gives you the source code for a photon map, all you need is to write a ray tracer.I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who is interested in computer graphics, especially if you are interested in rendering. Every CS student in rendering should write a hemicube radiosity renderer and a photon mapper... or at least own this book.

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