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Title: a disappointment
Review: the second edition brings a new chapter on the graphics pipeline. Well done, except that it is extremely obscure, for those who already understood the arcanes of the graphics pipeline.Chapter 5 on "ray tracing": 6 pages on root finding of quadratic, cubic and quartic polynomials;to compare with Chapter 7: "Visibility determination": The spatial partitioning deserves solely 4 pages.What's the point on dwelling so much on something that is trivial and botching something that is hard to grasp and of paramount importance ?
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