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The author leaves out information. For instance, he specifies that the camera should have a rotation matrix that is applied to vertices in the scene, but does not explain what a rotation matrix is.
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It taught me how to render 3d graphics from scratch given only a putpixel primitive
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I had fun implementing the code to draw lines triangles fill triangles and finally projecting 3d objects
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It explains algorithms using pseudocode that only assumes you have a function that draws a single pixel on a display
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You will get more from the book by writing your own code to implement the pseudocode examples
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The book has illustrations of the expected output and the companion website has javascript implementations of the examples so you can base your code on those
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I didnt see a single problem in the books prose but there are a few minor problems in the pseudocode and some errors in the javascript code
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For example the book implies that its appendix explains how to create a rotation matrix but the appendix doesnt mention this at all
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The first 5 chapters walk you through ray tracing a scene with some spheres and the last 10 get you making a rasterizer w the last chapter in each part consisting of more advanced ideas you might want to look into on your own
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