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Peter Shirley


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in Evanston, Illinois, The United States
June 11, 1963

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This Peter Shirley is an American computer scientist and computer graphics researcher, Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA.

He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991. He then joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor. From 1994 to 1996 he was a visiting professor at Cornell University. He then joined the faculty at the University of Utah, where he taught until 2008 when he joined NVIDIA as a research scientist. (source: Wikipedia)

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Fundamentals of Computer Gr...

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Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Yo...

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Realistic Ray Tracing

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“Note that I avoid most “modern features” of C++, but inheritance and operator overloading are too useful for ray tracers to pass on.”
Peter Shirley, Ray Tracing in One Weekend

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