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Physically Based Rendering
Matt Pharr ISBN 0123750792
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Matt Pharr ISBN 0123750792
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This book by Matt Pharr came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“they should also look up this book by called physically based rendering by matt farr and anyway it got an academy award”— guest
The guest here is Donald Knuth: Legendary computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, author of The Art of Computer Programming, and creator of the TeX typesetting system. Donald Knuth reflects on a lifetime of programming, beauty in algorithms, free will in the Game of Life, and the meaning of life.
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