Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#1

Post by sharedptr » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 11:31 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#2

Post by abhi9u » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 11:41 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#3

Post by wizzerking » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 12:07 PM UTC

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/

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#4

Post by beardyw » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 12:23 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#5

Post by doubloon » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 4:07 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#6

Post by karmakaze » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 4:57 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

#7

Post by agarren » Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

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/