Guided by Render, they undertake a dangerous, enemy-filled journey west where they encounter the Insubordinates, a guerilla army of counter-insurgents led by an unexpected but familiar field general.

'How to Render' shows how the human brain interprets the visual world around us.

This updated edition describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation.

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second.

Explains how the human brain interprets the visual world around us, as well as the subject of visually communicating the form of an object in easy to understand lessons through the use of drawings, photography, and more.

As the beautiful images in this book show, in addition to photoreal imagery you can also use it to create illustrations, visualizations, simulations of natural media and even abstract art!

You can also leave out computing, for example, to write a fiction. This book itself is an example of publishing with bookdown and R Markdown, and its source is fully available on GitHub.

By explaining not just how to use various lighting techniques but why, this guide provides the grounding graphics pros need to master Hollywood lighting techniques.

Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second.

"--Nick Flynn "This is the book you want with you in the cellar when the tornado is upstairs taking your house and your farm.