The title is likely a nod to Jim Blinn's highly influential book (more like a collection of articles), A Trip Down The Graphics Pipeline[1]. That was the first book I read on 3D graphics that helped me to actually intuitively understand fundamental 3D graphics concepts.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Blinns-Corner-Graphics-Pipeline/d...

Well, this is sadly the best we have in the field, where by "field" I mean: "accessible algebraic geometry for graphics".

Blinn provides some notes as to where his material comes from (see the page). He also mentions that some of this material was presented previously in some of his Jim Blinn's Corner articles. In particular:

* the "Lines in Space" series: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7047281

* the "How many different rational parametric cubic curves are there?" series: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/jim-blinns-corner/97815...

Part of the reason why I posted this to HN is so that others can hopefully drop some more information on this "field".

See also the author's site: https://www.jimblinn.com/

Title is a reference to Jim Blinn's excellent (although a bit dated) collection of 3D graphics articles, "A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline" [1]. A clear, useful, and often humorous take on various computer graphics topics, including the legacy "fixed function" 3D pipeline. Highly recommended!

1. http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Blinns-Corner/dp/1558603875