Preface to the Second Edition
Since the first edition of this book was published almost three years ago, we have received quite some feedback. We were very happy to hear that Advanced Global Illumination has been used as a textbook in various universities and are grateful for the constructive comments from our readers.
During the last years, the field of global illumination has expanded, and as a result, some new sections have been added. Chapter 5 contains a small section about environment maps. Moreover, we extended Chapter 7 and chapter 8 to include some of the newest developments in scalable rendering and precomputed radiance transfer.
The most significant change probably is the inclusion of exercises at the end of each chapter. We often ...
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