Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?

I just finished the first

For non-real-time there is: http://www.pbrt.org/

If you're interested in something that's not strictly real-time a good book is physically based rendering

"Real Time Rendering" by Moller/Haines and "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr are excellent.

"Game Engine Architecture" by Gregory and "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics" by Lengyel will probably prove very useful and relevant to you as well.

For real-time there is this: http://www.realtimerendering.com/

As a starter Realtime Rendering

"Real Time Rendering" by Moller/Haines and "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr are excellent.

"Game Engine Architecture" by Gregory and "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics" by Lengyel will probably prove very useful and relevant to you as well.

I can recommend the free wiki book at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

even a copy of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice will look fine on your desk

"Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr and Humphreys is a good intro to this way of doing things.

Real Time Rendering is particularly good at explaining the underlying concepts of modern GPU rendering pipelines.

there is this book (piggy-backing off the rep from the old "OpenGL Bible")