Literature and tutorials for writing a ray tracer

Question

I am interested in finding recommendations on books on writing a raytracer, simple and clear implementations of ray tracing that can be seen on the web, and online resources

Answer 1

This user has some interesting tutorials on ray tracing, these tutorials use C# I believe:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=3589667

I'm sure there will be some better tutorials, but this might be of interest.