Computer Science · Computer Graphics & Visualisation
A topic within Computer Graphics & Visualisation, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
2 works
James T. Kajiya
Formulates image synthesis as a single integral equation balancing emitted and reflected light, unifying ray tracing, radiosity and every rendering algorithm since as different ways of approximating the same equation.
Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob & Greg Humphreys
A complete renderer presented as literate code alongside the optics it implements — theory and working program in the same document.
link checked 17 Sept 2026