Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

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Essentially the title. I wanted to explore something different to what I&rsquo;m doing on a daily basis.Can you recommend good resources? Books work best for me but I&rsquo;m open to anything. The more practical the better.

RossBencina · Accepted Answer

Going more in the computational geometry direction, in addition to some interesting algorithms in the Graphics Gems series:
O'Rourke, "Computational Geometry in C 2e". Deals with the basics in a principled way. Start here for fundamentals like a good algorithm for intersection of two lines, or inside/outside polygon tests (don't depend on garbage blog posts for well studied fundamentals like this). The book's webpage is https://www.science.smith.edu/~jorourke/books/compgeom.html
Ericson, "Real-Time Collision Detection". Deep dive into practical collision detection algorithms.
And for Shaders, check out Inigo Quilez and ShaderToy:
- https://www.youtube.com/@InigoQuilez
- https://iquilezles.org/
- https://www.shadertoy.com/
You should be able to get your hands dirty pretty quickly implementing cool things on ShaderToy.

wizzerking · Answer

GPU Gems https://github.com/yyc-git/MyData/blob/master/3d/GPU%20Gems/...
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/gpu-gems-home/
Free Computer Books https://freecomputerbooks.com/
Other free book sites https://freecomputerbooks.com/otherBooks.html
Some computer & Machine Learning Free Books Creative Commons License
Graphics Gems Series Use ayour favorite search engine https://www.intechopen.com/

agarren · Answer

There was a similar post a week or two back, and many of the responses mentioned scratchapixel [0]. It seems like a solid recommendation, and I got lost in a couple of the links.[0] https://www.scratchapixel.com/

abhi9u · Answer

Ray Tracing in One Weekend: https://raytracing.github.io/

vineyardlabs · Answer

Personally I've recently discovered the YouTube channel Acerola [1], who works as a graphics programmer at Intel I believe and posts highly technical but also entertaining videos on real world rendering/shader techniques that are actually in use in games.
There's also pbr, which I understand is a legit professional level physically based rendering engine that is fully open source and documented in the form of this text[2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t [2] https://pbr-book.org

barrysteve · Answer

LearnOpenGl.comPossibly a smidge outdated.Goes from blank window to rendering 3d meshes with advanced lighting techniques (HDR, SSAO and more).Heped me understand shader pipeline, so I recommend it.https://learnopengl.com

karmakaze · Answer

I was just thinking along these same lines and found myself considering using raylib (building on SDL2) for a small/fun side project.
It has bindings for Zig so that might be a good combo, having used neither :-) The list of language bindings is impressive[0].
[0] https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/BINDINGS.md

ttoinou · Answer

1000% Shadertoy.comThe book of shaders or youtube tutorials about shadertoy

z303 · Answer

Tiny Code Christmas just started today. That is geared towards beginners in the demoscene and everyone is very friendlyhttps://tcc.lovebyte.party/

beeburrt · Answer

Here's a free book:https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...

beardyw · Answer

I made earth globe for something I was building on the web. You can get good map points and you can (should) use three.js Very satisfying to see it spin and tilt. Fun.

doubloon · Answer

i think these days one of the quickest ways to ramp up is to subscribe to Chat GPT 4 and ask it "please help me write a graphics program to draw a cube", or some other simple example, then ask it to explain each piece of code and what it is doing.

brudgers · Answer

Processing.org

Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

Essentially the title. I wanted to explore something different to what I’m doing on a daily basis.
Can you recommend good resources? Books work best for me but I’m open to anything. The more practical the better.

There was a similar post a week or two back, and many of the responses mentioned scratchapixel [0]. It seems like a solid recommendation, and I got lost in a couple of the links.
[0] https://www.scratchapixel.com/

Ray Tracing in One Weekend: https://raytracing.github.io/

LearnOpenGl.com
Possibly a smidge outdated.
Goes from blank window to rendering 3d meshes with advanced lighting techniques (HDR, SSAO and more).
Heped me understand shader pipeline, so I recommend it.
https://learnopengl.com

1000% Shadertoy.com
The book of shaders or youtube tutorials about shadertoy

Tiny Code Christmas just started today. That is geared towards beginners in the demoscene and everyone is very friendly
https://tcc.lovebyte.party/

Here's a free book:
https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...

I made earth globe for something I was building on the web. You can get good map points and you can (should) use three.js Very satisfying to see it spin and tilt. Fun.

i think these days one of the quickest ways to ramp up is to subscribe to Chat GPT 4 and ask it "please help me write a graphics program to draw a cube", or some other simple example, then ask it to explain each piece of code and what it is doing.

Processing.org