Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#1

Post by hollasch » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 9:25 PM UTC

Since this is a major new release (three and a half years in development), I think this should be ok for Show HN.

This release has lots of new material, fixes, and updates across the three books in this series. All three books are online and free, with accompanying code available from GitHub. Enjoy!

Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0
raytracing.github.io

Re: Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#2

Post by sasas » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 10:35 PM UTC

Wonderful, thank you for providing this content at no cost. Would there be a description of what new material was added in this version?

Re: Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#3

Post by chunkyks » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 11:07 PM UTC

This book was wonderful. I worked through it and it made it super easy to create one. Thank you for writing this!

(https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer was the one I created. Slightly obtuse but I really enjoyed writing it)

Re: Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#4

Post by corysama » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 11:38 PM UTC

sasas wrote: post #2

Wonderful, thank you for providing this content at no cost. Would there be a description of what new material was added in this version?

https://github.com/RayTracing/raytracing.github.io/releases/

Most of the changes are in the v4.0.0-alpha.1 and v4.0.0-alpha.2 releases.

Re: Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#5

Post by breck » Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 3:52 AM UTC

> I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place better than I am.

Oh yea? Well I'm planning on making "Ray Tracing in _One Afternoon_" and I'm going to not only make it public domain, I'm going to personally deliver a printed copy to everyone in the world.

(RTOW is lovely. I love how it has evolved. Thank you!)

Re: Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0

#6

Post by mnjksd » Sat, Jul 27, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

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