Graphics Programming Black Book (2001)

Awesome book, I actually bought a hardcopy for $150ish dollars a couple years ago because I wanted the tactile feel to go with the brilliant words.

For electronic consumption there's an excellent project on github that was mentioned here on hacker news earlier in the year / last year. You can find that here https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book/releases and it is the contents of the extreme edition formatted for modern e-readers.

I thought I'd have a quick look at a couple of the pages online to see if there was anything of interest. Several hours later... I've read most of the later chapters and a few of the earlier ones and already learned more about graphics programming and low-level code optimisation than I imagined possible. What an incredible book!

If anybody's wondering who this mysterious and brilliant Kennedy person is on page 171, it is I.

I'll never throw away my hardcopy. Abrash wrote in a wonderfully accessible way.

I loved these articles in the 1990s. I implemented most algorithms.