Research Catalog

Title

3D game engine design : a practical approach to real-time computer graphics / David H. Eberly.

Author

Eberly, David H.

Publication

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xxviii, 561 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm +

Subjects

• Computer graphics
• Three-dimensional display systems
• Real-time programming

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Geometrical Methods. 2.1. Transformations. 2.2. Coordinate Systems. 2.3. Quaternions. 2.4. Euler Angles. 2.5. Standard 3D Objects. 2.6. Distance Methods -- Ch. 3. The Graphics Pipeline. 3.1. Model and World Coordinates. 3.2. Perspective Projection. 3.3. Camera Models. 3.4. Culling and Clipping. 3.5. Surface and Vertex Attributes. 3.6. Rasterizing. 3.7. An Efficient Clipping and Lighting Pipeline. 3.8. Issues of Software, Hardware, and APIS -- Ch. 4. Hierarchical Scene Representations. 4.1. Tree-Based Representation. 4.2. Updating a Scene Graph. 4.3. Rendering a Scene Graph -- Ch. 5. Picking. 5.1. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Sphere. 5.2. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Box. 5.3. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Capsule. 5.4. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Lozenge. 5.5. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Cylinder. 5.6. Intersection of a Linear Component and an Ellipsoid.
• 5.7. Intersection of a Linear Component and a Triangle -- Ch. 6. Collision Detection. 6.1. Design Issues. 6.2. Intersection of Dynamic Objects and Lines. 6.3. Intersection of Dynamic Objects and Planes. 6.4. Static Object-Object Intersection. 6.5. Dynamic Object-Object Intersection. 6.6. Oriented Bounding Box Trees. 6.7. Processing of Rotating and Moving Objects -- Ch. 7. Curves. 7.1. Definitions. 7.2. Reparameterization by Arc Length. 7.3. Special Curves. 7.4. Subdivision. 7.5. Orientation of Objects on Curved Paths -- Ch. 8. Surfaces. 8.1. Definitions. 8.2. Curvature. 8.3. Special Surfaces. 8.4. Subdivision -- Ch. 9. Animation of Characters. 9.1. Key Frame Animation. 9.2. Inverse Kinematics. 9.3. Skinning -- Ch. 10. Geometric Level of Detail. 10.1. Sprites and Billboards. 10.2. Discrete Level of Detail. 10.3. Continuous Level of Detail -- Ch. 11. Terrain. 11.1. Terrain Topology. 11.2. Vertex Based Simplification.
• 11.3. Block-Based Simplification. 11.4. Vertex Dependencies. 11.5. Block Rendering. 11.6. The Full Algorithm. 11.7. Other Issues. 11.8. Height Fields from Point Sets or Triangle Meshes -- Ch. 12. Spatial Sorting. 12.1. Quadtrees and Octrees. 12.2. Portals. 12.3. Binary Space Partitioning -- Ch. 13. Special Effects. 13.1. Lens Flare. 13.2. Environment Mapping. 13.3. Bump Mapping. 13.4. Volumetric Fogging. 13.5. Projected Lights. 13.6. Projected Shadows. 13.7. Particle Systems. 13.8. Morphing. App. A. Object-Oriented Infrastructure -- App. B. Numerical Methods.

ISBN

1558605932

LCCN

00055019

OCLC

• ocm44413730
• SCSB-4007002

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries