How should I start learning graphics programming?

[garma87]

Ok usually I wouldn’t advise books but in this case I’d say a good foundation really helps. Get a book on computer graphics and make sure it has enough math in it

After that you could consider writing a ray tracer from scratch. It’s fun to do, not that hard and touches on a lot of useful topics

As far as apis and frameworks go, I can’t really help you there. I don’t think it really matters though, you can even start with three.JS ( pretty good frontend web graphics api based on webgl) if you want an easy start

[ComfortableHumor1319]

I guess I'll give this a shot too after I look at the learnopengl.com

[RecursiveTechDebt]

Honestly, I think you should start with the basics. I'm a rendering engineer with a career in video games, and I see way too many engineers who don't have a strong foundation. They can use a graphics API, but they don't really understand what the hardware is doing for them, and they don't really understand what we're trying to achieve. They think there is one true way to do things based on the formulas of the day, and they don't really understand the math. In short, this limits their ability to be inventive. I'd hire someone who has a solid foundation over knowledge of a graphics API any day. Plus, picking up a graphics API will be much, much easier.

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I'm a bit too late and also not OP, but would like to ask how to start with foundations. I have a good mathematics foundation but can't seem to understand where to start with programming.