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Matt, Greg, and I are super-excited to release a free online edition of the Physically Based Rendering Book with hyperlinked cross-referencing, beautiful SVG fi

by wjakob 8y ago

Matt, Greg, and I are super-excited to release a free online edition of the Physically Based Rendering Book with hyperlinked cross-referencing, beautiful SVG figures and equations as well as interactive image comparisons. The details of how all of this came to be are explained in the preface to the online edition. (http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Preface_to_the_Online_Edition.html http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Preface_to_the_Online_Editi...)

chubot 8y ago
This is amazing! Thank you. I still buy physical books rather than e-books, but I always thought that hyperlinks were a great part of a reading experience as well.
dtf 8y ago
Fantastic news and amazing work, the site looks beautiful! I love my copy of PBR but it's always been a tad on the heavy side for casual reading :) The image viewer works brilliantly and the renders are looking gorgeous. Looking forward to spending some hours with this on my iPad later.
CyberDildonics 8y ago
Really great work. I think this book has been exceptionally valuable to many people over a long period of time, and likely raised the overall level of raytracing knowledge among graphics programmers by a large amount.
akalin 8y ago
Thank you, this is fantastic news! PBR has always been one of my favorite textbooks. Your road map says: > We plan to release updated versions of the book roughly once a year, starting a year or so from now. Out of curiosity, do you guys still plan to release new print editions?
- wjakob 8y ago
  Thanks! We'd love to have a new print edition at some point in the future, but the details of this are yet to be determined.
mattnewport 8y ago
Awesome, I just recently bought both the print and eBook editions as I start to dive into DirectX ray tracing, this looks like it will be a great complement!
OnACoffeeBreak 8y ago
Is there a place to report issues? In section 2.9.1 Quaternions, 4th paragraph reads as if it's missing an equation for the second representation of a quaternion: A quaternion can be represented as a quadruple [EQ present] or as [EQ missing] , where is an imaginary 3-vector and is the real part. We will use both representations interchangeably in this section. This is what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/3Mfanma https://imgur.com/a/3Mfanma
- mattpharr 8y ago
  Nice find! In general, you can send errata/bugs to authors@pbrt.org, but we got this one. :-) It looks like an equation that MathJax wasn't happy with. I've got it fixed now and will include that fix in a push to the site in a little bit. If you want to be listed as something other than "OnACoffeeBreak" in the errata credits, send me an email (matt@pharr.org). Thanks again!
  - tobr 8y ago
    There’s a typo in the second sentence on the landing page, a redundant “the”: > where the an accurate modeling
    - mattpharr 8y ago
      Thanks! Also fixed and will also go live in a little bit.
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by wjakob 8y ago

chubot 8y ago

This is amazing! Thank you. I still buy physical books rather than e-books, but I always thought that hyperlinks were a great part of a reading experience as well.

dtf 8y ago

Fantastic news and amazing work, the site looks beautiful! I love my copy of PBR but it's always been a tad on the heavy side for casual reading :) The image viewer works brilliantly and the renders are looking gorgeous. Looking forward to spending some hours with this on my iPad later.

CyberDildonics 8y ago

Really great work. I think this book has been exceptionally valuable to many people over a long period of time, and likely raised the overall level of raytracing knowledge among graphics programmers by a large amount.

akalin 8y ago

Thank you, this is fantastic news! PBR has always been one of my favorite textbooks. Your road map says: > We plan to release updated versions of the book roughly once a year, starting a year or so from now. Out of curiosity, do you guys still plan to release new print editions?

wjakob 8y ago
Thanks! We'd love to have a new print edition at some point in the future, but the details of this are yet to be determined.

mattnewport 8y ago

Awesome, I just recently bought both the print and eBook editions as I start to dive into DirectX ray tracing, this looks like it will be a great complement!

OnACoffeeBreak 8y ago

Is there a place to report issues? In section 2.9.1 Quaternions, 4th paragraph reads as if it's missing an equation for the second representation of a quaternion: A quaternion can be represented as a quadruple [EQ present] or as [EQ missing] , where is an imaginary 3-vector and is the real part. We will use both representations interchangeably in this section. This is what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/3Mfanma https://imgur.com/a/3Mfanma

mattpharr 8y ago
Nice find! In general, you can send errata/bugs to authors@pbrt.org, but we got this one. :-) It looks like an equation that MathJax wasn't happy with. I've got it fixed now and will include that fix in a push to the site in a little bit. If you want to be listed as something other than "OnACoffeeBreak" in the errata credits, send me an email (matt@pharr.org). Thanks again!
- tobr 8y ago
  There’s a typo in the second sentence on the landing page, a redundant “the”: > where the an accurate modeling
  - mattpharr 8y ago
    Thanks! Also fixed and will also go live in a little bit.
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