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Ray Tracing Creations by Wells & Young
Recommended

ISBN: 1-878739-27-1 Publisher: Waite Group Pages: 573pp+disk Price: £35-95

Categories: graphics

Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 6-2 (Jan 1994)

Last year I reviewed Image Lab and must confess that I was frustrated by the amount of time that it took to obtain enough understanding of the (PD) Persistence of Vision Ray tracing program to follow the examples in the book. The results looked stunning but I simply had not the time to get to grips with the poor documentation of POV-Ray. It consoles me to discover that this was not a problem for me alone. Ray Tracing Creations is exactly what I could have done with last year, an excellent tutorial guide to using POV-Ray. If you would like to explore the mysteries of rendering, texture and much, much more buy this book. Be warned that you do need a 486DX or a lot of patience. There is a disk with the book which includes the scripts for all the fascinating colour illustrations in the book. They really do work straight off the disk.

Other Authors with the same surname

Wells
Teach Yourself StarOffice/Linux in 24 Hours Bundle by Bill Ball & Dean Taylor & Nicholas Wells (Reviewed Jul 1999)

Young
Systems Programming in Microsoft C (Second Edition) by Michael J Young (Reviewed May 1992)
Under the Radar by Robert Young (Reviewed Jan 2000)
Visual Tcl Handbook, The by David Young (Reviewed Mar 1998)
Windows Animation Programming by M Young (Reviewed Nov 1994)
X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, The by Douglas Young [Recommended] (Reviewed Jul 1994)
X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt. OSF/MOTIF Edition, The by Douglas A. Young (Reviewed Jan 1991)

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