Is it possible and realistic to learn independent of an API?

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  1. pbrt-v3

    Source code for pbrt, the renderer described in the third edition of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation", by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys.

    Physically Based Raytracing

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  3. bgfx

    Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

    Sort of, I'd recommend a modern higher level API. I'm not sure what the current recommended ones are (probably bgfx), but assuming the wrapper is "low level enough", then the concepts you learn are still going to apply.

  4. learn-wgpu

    Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.

    - https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu

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