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Computer Graphics from Scratch
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Computer Graphics from Scratch

by Gabriel Gambetta
May 2021
Beginner
248 pages
5h 26m
English
No Starch Press
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INDEX

Numbers

2D, 9, 18, 203, 204. See also specific objects

3D, scene as, 9. See also specific objects

3D plane, equation for, 138

565 format, 8

888 format, 8

A

acceleration, hardware, 202

acceleration structures, 202

additive color model, 6, 6–7

algebra, linear

matrix operations, 210–213

points, 203–204, 205–210

vectors, 204–210

algorithms. See also raytracer/raytracing

attribute-mapping, 153, 178

back face culling, 159

basic rays, 27

Bresenham’s Algorithm, 90

camera, 67

clipping, 144, 145–147

depth, 153, 170

diffuse, 39

embarrassingly parallelizable, 67

GPUs and, xix

gradient, 102

illumination at a point, 164

instances, 119

level-of-detail, 201

lines and, 85–89

overview of, 15

painter’s, 150

perspective, 110

recursive, 58

reflections, 62

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