COMP5812M
Module Reading List

The principal textbook and reference for the module is:

Hughes, van Dam et al, Computer Graphics (Third Edition), Addison-Wesley 2014 

Students are expected to have completed a prior module in the basics of graphics programming using either OpenGL or DirectX.  For those who have not, it is strongly recommended that they review the material in:

Kessenich, Sellers & Shreiner, Open GL Programming Guide (Ninth Edition), Addison-Wesley (2016)

although almost any reasonable OpenGL or DirectX textbook will do.

Students who wish to refresh the relevant mathematics prior to the module are recommended to consider:

Vince, Mathematics for Computer Graphics (Fifth Edition), Springer 2017.

For students wishing more information about concurrent programming, I recommend:

Williams, C++ Concurrency in Action (Second Edition), Manning 2019.

However, this covers both distributed and parallel concurrency, and understanding concurrent parallelism may be easier through OpenMP:

Chapman, Jost and van der Pas, Using OpenMP,  MIT Press 2007

is also useful.

More information on raytracing is also available in:

Pharr, Jakob & Humphreys, Physically Based Rendering (Third Edition), Morgan Kaufmann, 2016, available at www.pbrt.org

Shirley, Ray Tracing in One Weekend; Ray Tracing the Next Week; Ray Tracing the Rest of Your Life, (Kindle)

Haines & Akenine-Möller, Ray Tracing Gems. NVIDIA 2019

More information on shader languages is available in:

Rost et al., OpenGL Shading Language, Addison-Wesley 2009

Sellers, Vulkan Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley 2016

DirectX Programming Guide, Microsoft, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d12/directx-12-programming-guide, 2016

This list was last updated on 25/09/2020