The Ray Tracer Challenge (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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I finished the book just last month! Super happy with the results. To celebrate I wrote an article and posted about my experience.
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Hello @jamis and everyone,
I’ve implemented the gradient pattern as described in the book and it gives me this output:
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I’m getting odd values for my color calculations in tests 4 and 5 in the reflection section-
github.com/zdybak/ray
The tests ar...
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Title: Ray Trace Challenge: Inversion pg 49
I have gotten all my code (including my matrix multiplication and inversion routines) to pas...
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Please use the following format for the title of this thread (then simply delete/replace this text with the content for the threa...
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At the end of Chapter 14 the book briefly mentions that materials applied to groups have no effect on children shapes. I’d like ...
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After introducing the ideas of tuples, vectors, and points, the book goes on to say:
But looking at (4, -4, 3) and (-4, 4, -3) ...
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I’ve been handling 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4 matrices just fine. In fact my code handles NxM matrices right now but I’ve noticed all of ...
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I’m stuck on the test for #7 “Intersecting the caps of a closed cylinder”.
Tests 3 & 5 are failing as the intersections count i...
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Unfortunately, my final image of chapter 7 is flipped:
All the tests from the chapter pass.
My camera and ray generation are...
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Hi @jamis,
I’m not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere, so apologies for a potential duplicate.
I refer to cone normal calculatio...
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Hi, I’m working on the Chapter 8 of the book.
After I add add the point_offset, I’m still able to see acne:
In the image above, I re...
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This month, we have the pleasure of spotlighting author Jamis Buck, who has written Mazes for Prog...
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Page 130 I render the wall ok by rotating the plane in x PI/2 as he says to do on page 125.
However I get a massive shadow acros...
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On Page 37. How to calculate the cofactor for a 4x4 matrix is never shown. Only the 3x3.
How is the author getting the cofactor(A,0,0) =...
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Hi & thanks for the book!
I’m following the book building a ray tracer and would like to publish the code it as open source. I’m usi...
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Feels like a slightly redundant question at this point (since I can already see a lot of similar repos on GitHub), but just to check - is...
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Also posted to the old forums.
Hello there!
I just finished chapter 8, and I now have shadows! Yay!
However, when I ran the whole test...
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The test is as follows:
Scenario: Intersecting a scaled sphere with a ray
Given r ← ray(point(0, 0, -5), vector(0, 0, 1))
And s ← sphere...
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The Ray Tracer Challenge by @jamis: p. 28
It appears to me that on page 28, there is an error. The first column of the features/matrices...
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I am working on Chapter 8 when we add shadows. When this is done, though (on p. 115), the original ShadeHit test no longer passes. This p...
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Hi Jamis,
I think there’s an issue with a test on chapter 6. I own the ebook, version P1.0 Feb. 2019.
This test doesn’t pass for me:
...
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In the last hint (#4) of Chapter 5, the pseudocode applies a normalization to the origin ray:
r ← ray(ray_origin, normalize(position - ...
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In the book, at the bottom right, there are the “discuss” and “report erratum” links, pointing to:
discuss: http://forums.pragprog.com/...
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The following is cross-posted from the original Ray Tracer Challenge forum, from a post by garfieldnate. I’m cross-posting it so that the...
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I think the following pseudocode from the book contains a bug:
function position(ray, t)
return ray.origin + ray.direction * t
...
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Hi. I’m working on this test:
Scenario : The pixel size for a horizontal canvas
Given c ← camera(200, 125, π/2)
Then c.pixel_siz...
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Whilst the author has been careful to provide exact results for the tests elsewhere in the book (such as surds with the transformation te...
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As per the title, thanks.
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Hi Jamis,
I think there’s an issue with a test on chapter 6. I own the ebook, version P1.0 Feb. 2019.
This test doesn’t pass for me:
...
New
Hi, I’m working on the Chapter 8 of the book.
After I add add the point_offset, I’m still able to see acne:
In the image above, I re...
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@jamis
After introducing the ideas of tuples, vectors, and points, the book goes on to say:
But looking at (4, -4, 3) and (-4, 4, -3) ...
New
I finished the book just last month! Super happy with the results. To celebrate I wrote an article and posted about my experience.
For a...
New
Hello @jamis and everyone,
I’ve implemented the gradient pattern as described in the book and it gives me this output:
The code for ...
New
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Jamis Buck
@jamis
This month, we have the pleasure of spotlighting author Jamis Buck, who has written Mazes for Prog...
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The test is as follows:
Scenario: Intersecting a scaled sphere with a ray
Given r ← ray(point(0, 0, -5), vector(0, 0, 1))
And s ← sphere...
New
@jamis
Unfortunately, my final image of chapter 7 is flipped:
All the tests from the chapter pass.
My camera and ray generation are...
New
@jamis
I’ve been handling 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4 matrices just fine. In fact my code handles NxM matrices right now but I’ve noticed all of ...
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Title: Ray Trace Challenge: Inversion pg 49
I have gotten all my code (including my matrix multiplication and inversion routines) to pas...
New
Hi,
I’m stuck on the test for #7 “Intersecting the caps of a closed cylinder”.
Tests 3 & 5 are failing as the intersections count i...
New
@jamis
I’m getting odd values for my color calculations in tests 4 and 5 in the reflection section-
github.com/zdybak/ray
The tests ar...
New
@jamis
Please use the following format for the title of this thread (then simply delete/replace this text with the content for the threa...
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@jamis
At the end of Chapter 14 the book briefly mentions that materials applied to groups have no effect on children shapes. I’d like ...
New
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Think Again 50% Off Sale »
The theme of this sale is new perspectives on familiar topics.
Enter coupon code ThinkAgain2021 at checkout t...
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The following is cross-posted from the original Ray Tracer Challenge forum, from a post by garfieldnate. I’m cross-posting it so that the...
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Brace yourself for a fun challenge: build a photorealistic 3D renderer from scratch! In just a couple of weeks, build a ray tracer that r...
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As per the title, thanks.
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Whilst the author has been careful to provide exact results for the tests elsewhere in the book (such as surds with the transformation te...
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The Ray Tracer Challenge by @jamis: p. 28
It appears to me that on page 28, there is an error. The first column of the features/matrices...
New
Feels like a slightly redundant question at this point (since I can already see a lot of similar repos on GitHub), but just to check - is...
New
Hi & thanks for the book!
I’m following the book building a ray tracer and would like to publish the code it as open source. I’m usi...
New
In the last hint (#4) of Chapter 5, the pseudocode applies a normalization to the origin ray:
r ← ray(ray_origin, normalize(position - ...
New
Hi. I’m working on this test:
Scenario : The pixel size for a horizontal canvas
Given c ← camera(200, 125, π/2)
Then c.pixel_siz...
New
Also posted to the old forums.
Hello there!
I just finished chapter 8, and I now have shadows! Yay!
However, when I ran the whole test...
New
@jamis
Page 130 I render the wall ok by rotating the plane in x PI/2 as he says to do on page 125.
However I get a massive shadow acros...
New
I am working on Chapter 8 when we add shadows. When this is done, though (on p. 115), the original ShadeHit test no longer passes. This p...
New
I think the following pseudocode from the book contains a bug:
function position(ray, t)
return ray.origin + ray.direction * t
...
New
Hi @jamis,
I’m not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere, so apologies for a potential duplicate.
I refer to cone normal calculatio...
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