Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation (2016)
Ahhh, the 2nd rendering bible, together with Eric Veach's thesis: <a href="https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/" rel="nofollow">https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/</a><p>I've spent my entire life studying this stuff and feel extremely lucky on so many levels: that we have these incredible computers which can actually do the computation, that we happen to have such a powerful theory that can model and even predict visual reality, and perhaps most of all, that a single person can learn all this stuff and carry it around with them everyday - it's really changed how I see the world.<p>My deepest thanks go to those who have developed and passed all this on through their papers and books; it's literally what I'm getting the meaning of life from.