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This has been the stock recommendation for learning fragment shaders for as long as ive been interested in them (~5 years), and has gotten no closer to completion in that time I think. Sign of the quality of the stuff that is there that it still gets recommended I guess.

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Books of this nature don't need to be completed to be useful and high quality.

A book about shaders that doesn't teach basic 3D lighting? I think at least that bit if nothing else should be finished.

I didn't make any claim around the quality of "The Book of Shaders", I was objecting to the unqualified implication of the OP that a book is low quality due to being incomplete.

If OP had expanded on why it was low quality other than just saying it's incomplete then I wouldn't have raised it.

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