Realistic Ray Tracing, Second Edition

Rating:
Summary: By the end I was disappointed
Review: The book started off amazingly well. I was very excited to find out what next. The book did a good job of introducing the technique and giving hints on how to implement them. After the first several chapters, however, the implementation gets left behind and the reader is given a series of chapters on disjointed topics. The author who was weaving such a beautiful web toward the beginning stopped doing everything that make the book great. There was no longer any explanation about how one topic led to the next and implementation was no longer touched upon.
This book is an adequate introduction to the concepts but I found it sorely lacking when it came to help on implementation.

Rating:
Summary: By the end I was disappointed
Review: The book started off amazingly well. I was very excited to find out what next. The book did a good job of introducing the technique and giving hints on how to implement them. After the first several chapters, however, the implementation gets left behind and the reader is given a series of chapters on disjointed topics. The author who was weaving such a beautiful web toward the beginning stopped doing everything that make the book great. There was no longer any explanation about how one topic led to the next and implementation was no longer touched upon.
This book is an adequate introduction to the concepts but I found it sorely lacking when it came to help on implementation.