2.5.5 Suggested Reading
  Beside the POV-Ray material mentioned in "Books, Magazines and CD-ROMs" there are several good books or 
 periodicals that you should be able to locate in your local computer book store or your local university library. 
 
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   "An Introduction to Ray tracing" Andrew S. Glassner (editor) 
 ISBN 0-12-286160-4; Academic Press; 
  1989
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   "Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping" Henrik Wann Jensen 
 ISBN: 1568811470; AK Peters; 
  July 2001
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   "3D Artist" Newsletter, "The Only Newsletter about Affordable PC 3D Tools and Techniques") 
 Publisher: 
  Bill Allen; P.O. Box 4787; Santa Fe, NM 87502-4787; (505) 982-3532
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   "Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice" Nadia Magnenat-Thalman and Daniel Thalmann; 
 Springer-Verlag; 
  1987
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   "The RenderMan Companion" Steve Upstill; 
 Addison Wesley; 1989
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   "Graphics Gems" Andrew S. Glassner (editor); 
 Academic Press; 1990
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   "Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics" J. D. Foley and A. Van Dam; 
 ISBN 0-201-14468-9; 
  Addison-Wesley 1983
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   "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (2nd Ed.)" J. D. Foley, A. van Dam, J. F. Hughes; 
 ISBN 
  0-201-12110-7; Addison-Wesley; 1990
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   "Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty" Clifford Pickover; 
 St.Martin's Press;
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   "SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings"; 
 Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on 
  Computer Graphics
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   "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications"; The Computer Society; 
 10662, Los Vaqueros Circle; Los 
  Alamitos, CA 90720
  The POV-Team no longer recommends books from CRC Press. Go read Eric's 
 commentary to find out why.