Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

This would work wonders for me as I like to see and read code. then ask more questions until I can understand. in conjuction with the links and books - I think learning will be changed forever.

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.

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