Real-Time Rendering - Hardcover

Akenine-Möller, Tomas; Haines, Eric; Hoffman, Naty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568811829 ISBN 13: 9781568811826

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2002

Synopsis

After three years this "wonderful all-around resource" of computer graphics, "indispensable for every serious graphics programmer", is available in a completely revised and updated edition. Nearly doubled in size, the new edition keeps pace with the astonishing developments in hardware and software that have increased the speed and quality of rendering images. The new edition includes information on the latest technology that is being released concurrently with the publication. The book's trademark--blending solid theory and practical advice--remains intact, making it mandatory for every programmer who wants to stay at the cutting edge. The book contains chapters as diverse as: - Transforms - Visual Appearance - Acceleration Algorithms - Advanced Shading Techniques (New Chapter) - Curved Surfaces (New Chapter) With Topics Including: - Pixel shaders - Subdivision surfaces - Intersection algorithms - Pipeline tuning

About this title

Synopsis

Computer animation appears in movies, on television, in print and on the world wide web. The rapid advances in hardware and software mean that we are now experiencing only the beginning of the 3D computer graphics explosion. Realistically animated 3D computer graphics rendered in real time is the goal of a computer animation industry. This text covers the development of real-time rendering (several frames per second) for use in computer games, computer-animated movies, advertising and other applications. The authors have written the book that they wish they had when they started out. Focusing on the entire graphics pipeline, this text covers optimization, visual appearance, speed-up techniques and collision detection. The authors present new techniques and time-tested algorithms. Entire sections are devoted to special effects, polygon tesellation and model simplification. A large section on hardware ends the book.

About the Author

Eric Haines, a graduate of the Cornell program of Computer Graphics, is currently a lead software engineer at Autodesk, Inc. Haines, a member of the editoral board for the jounal of graphics tools, has also published a number of articles, some of which are included in the Graphics Gems series. Tomas Akenine-Moller, a graduate of the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. Akenine-Moller has contributed articles to the Graphics Gems series and to the journal of graphics tools.

Edition details

• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1568811829
• ISBN 13: 9781568811826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 864