Everything about Caustic Graphics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Caustic GraphicsA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Total Training for Adobe After Effects 6.5The most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: Brazil R/SA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: Ray tracing hardwareA closely related topic

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📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Total Training for Adobe After Effects 6.5Brian Maffitt, Steve Holmes · 2004
• Blender CyclesBernardo Iraci · 2013
• Rendering with Mental rayTh Driemeyer · 2000
• 📕Mirko IlićDejan Kršić · 2012
• Mastering Mental rayJennifer O'Connor · 2010
• Learning Autodesk Maya 2009Marc-André Guindon · 2008

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