Guide to Graphics Software Tools [Paperback]

The 2^nd edition of this integrated guide explains and lists readily available graphics software tools and their applications, while also serving as a shortcut to graphics theory and programming. It grounds readers in fundamental concepts and helps them use visualization, modeling, simulation, and virtual reality to complement and improve their work.

Objects and Models.- Transformation and Viewing.- Color and Lighting.- Blending and Texture Mapping.- OpenGL Programming in Java: JOGL.- Curved Models.- Vertex Shading, Pixel Shading, and Parallel Processing.- Programming in Java3D.- OpenGL Shading Language.- Direct3D Shader Programming.- Advanced Topics.- Low-Level Graphics Libraries.- Visualization.- Modeling and Rendering.- Animation and Simulation.- Virtual Reality.- Web3D Tools and Networked Environment.- 3D File Formats.

Current graphics software and hardware combine to allow multiple-level functionality and open up new application areas for scientists of all disciplines, and for computer scientists and engineers in particular.

This thoroughly revised integrated guide explains and lists readily available graphics software tools and their applications, while also serving as a shortcut to graphics theory and programming. The second edition grounds readers in fundamental concepts and helps them use visualization, modeling, simulation, and virtual reality to complement and improve their work.

Features:

Comprehensive and practical coverage of software graphics tools

Includes 6 new chapters on OpenGL Programming in Java, Curved Models, Vertex Shading, Pixel Shading and Parallel Processing, Programming in Java3D, OpenGL Shading Language, Direct3D Shader Programming [NEW]

Updated graphics software tools, with new information and format [NEW]l“¡