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random_in_unit_sphere() (#1637)uniform_real_distribution usage for random_double() (#1680)hit_record forward declaration (#1609)From our last official v3.2.3 release (three and a half years ago!), this major release includes all changes in the v4.0.0-alpha.1 and v4.0.0-alpha.2 releases, plus the changes listed immediately below. Generally, this represents a large overhaul of all three books and their code, and will require large changes to any code you've based on the prior v3.2.3 version. Going forward, we plan to avo...
This alpha wraps up most of the major changes we expect to make to book 2 for the impending v4.0.0 release, along with a bunch of updates to the other two books. Since the alpha.1 release last August, we've been lucky to have onboarded two new contributors: Arman Uguray and Nate Rupsis. They've been helping out a ton with this release, and Arman is also developing his GPU Ray Tracing book at t...
It's been quite a while since our last release of v3.2.3 at the end of 2020. For this cycle, we've tackled a load of significant backlog items, including rewrites of much of our underlying code. As always, the primary idea isn't to provide the best or most optimal implemntation, but instead to put out simple, sometimes crude first approximations of the main components of writing a ray tracer.
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