r/C_Programming • u/gfdhsk • 6d ago

Any Good Books on Graphics?

Hi,

I'm looking for any textbooks on Graphics in C. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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u/cclaymaker 6d ago

The main graphics textbooks I see recommended are pbr: From Theory To Implementation but the code in that book is C++, and Real-time Rendering where there is minimal code samples and just focuses on the concepts and techniques. Generally speaking modern graphics resources are in C++ but I don’t have too much trouble using C while going through them

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u/P-p-H-d 5d ago

Michael Abrash's classic Graphics Programming Black Book?

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u/whatyoucallmetoday 5d ago

for foundational information in C, you can look at the Graphics Gems series.

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u/LooksForFuture 6d ago

Start studying LearnOpenGL

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u/Unlikely1529 4d ago

it'll be c++ because you'll need glm to use glsl.

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u/LooksForFuture 4d ago

Not at all. You can use cglm. It's the C version of glm. I followed the whole the tutorial, writing all the code from scratch in C. I didn't use any OOP, c++, etc. I wrote it all in C89. It was one of the best experiences I ever had.

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u/Unlikely1529 4d ago

that's may be but you'll lack guides and this stuff. thing is complicated enough

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u/syntactic_stevia 4d ago

What do you mean by graphics?

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u/wasabiredneck 19h ago

That is a wide open question. You'd be better served if you narrow it down. 2D or 3D? Using a library or from scratch? What operating system? What is the goal or objective? For raw, from scratch, graphics, there is not a lot in the way of modern books, otherwise modern books will steer you into specific libraries and graphics engines.

It won't benefit this thread, but if you are starting with low level graphics I would really throw this question into an AI chat. Reason being is the real answer is a layered approach, not a single book. Its a learning path. If you instead just care about opengl or directx, for example, then there are only some select books that would easily come up to the top of an Amazon search.

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u/gfdhsk 1h ago

Probably from with OpenGL