Book2016
Ray Tracing in One Weekend
Peter Shirley
Builds a working ray tracer in a few hundred lines, arguing that the core ideas of rendering are learned faster by writing one than by reading the theory first.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Computer Science · Computer Graphics & Visualisation
Ray Tracing
A topic within Computer Graphics & Visualisation, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading on Ray Tracing
22 works
Paper1980
An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display
Turner Whitted
Introduces recursive ray tracing, showing that reflection, refraction and shadows can all be generated by the same recursive procedure.
7 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026