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new	Rendering shadows for transparent objects

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by gbordelon
Sept 7, 2019 8:31:18 GMT

new	Bonus Chapter: Bounding boxes and hierarchies

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by sbehnke
Jul 29, 2019 15:19:04 GMT

new	Bonus Chapter: Rendering Soft Shadows

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by sbehnke
Jul 22, 2019 18:17:06 GMT

new	Triangle mesh normalization

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by sbehnke
Jul 8, 2019 4:48:15 GMT

new	A different sort of light source

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by markf
May 9, 2019 2:39:22 GMT

new	Next steps, continued.

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by chrisd
May 8, 2019 0:36:11 GMT

new	Python notes

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by Jamis
Apr 1, 2019 13:22:48 GMT

new	Fake wireframe display

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by Jamis
Mar 17, 2019 20:34:15 GMT

new	Bounding boxes

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by ascotti
Mar 11, 2019 7:07:58 GMT

new	Set direction of area light

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by ascotti
Feb 6, 2019 19:33:30 GMT

new	Presentation video

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by Jamis
Feb 5, 2019 17:48:58 GMT

new	Smaller epsilon for triangle intersection

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by ascotti
Jan 14, 2019 21:54:39 GMT

new	Visible/Invisible shapes

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by ascotti
Dec 31, 2018 9:50:26 GMT

new	"Bonus content" poll

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by Jamis
Dec 5, 2018 3:12:47 GMT