Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

I haven't read the entire book but so far it appears to be a week thought out and thorough resource.

Was happy reader of 1st edition of this book, this time decided to buy kindle edition, because this one do not only replaces all other books on this subject, but in a paper form could replace gym too. About the book itself - buy it, don't think. Frederick Brooks said once that the programming code is the best way to say what the program is doing, but this book written in English and on pseudo-code, understandable enough for inquiring non programmer reader. There is many angry reviews about printing quality. Kindle edition is a little bit blurry and looks more like pdf book when you read it in Kindle (no scaling, no page fit). But I use 12 inches iPad, so it's not a big problem, however... Just warning.

Has good detailed stuff, code snippets and is over all a good book for the experienced and inexperienced user. I recommend it!

Nice book .. delivered on time and in a good condition

Great book, but my copy arrived missing several pages of the contents, which made it more difficult to navigate.

The best. Some spots are really technical and will require additional resources if you aren't familiar with the background.

PBR book is amazing, well explained and full of techniques. I am really glad because I have bought it

Fantastic textbook. Super helpful when going through the code

Purchased as a gift, my son is very happy with this book.

Great book it has so much resource infact i am planning to give four start since I was not able to understand. But later changed my mind because it has valuable information,techniques and good code snippets. I also mailed authors and they replied back. But one thing I would like to tell code samples in this are difficult to understand for a person if person is not a graphics programmer. Also for all chapters if author can release a youtube video tutorial as paid version with mathematics concept explained it would be more good,that's the trend now because reading takes more time,difficult to understand specific mathematics models just with images in the book and sometimes people feel sleepy. Before reading this book please read RayTraceFromGroundUp book that teaches you the basics. Overall book is awesome.

This is a really well thought out book. The algorithms themselves are so well explained, even somebody without a background in software engineering could potentially understand it quite well. It's absolutely mandatory to have a good grasp of at least highschool-level mathematics to follow along, though. Nowadays I wouldn't recommend buying the Kindle-Edition anymore, though, because the book has been released for free by the authors on their website pbrt.org. If you want to support them, buy the paperback version, otherwise use the online edition.

This update of PBRT book is awesome! Moreover, the authors have done a pretty good job on the code update compare to previous PBRT code versions.

love it, should had bought the pdf version though