Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) (Hardcover)

Customers buy this book with Game Programming Gems 6 (Game Programming Gems (W/CD)) by Mike Dickheiser

+

Price For Both: £91.60

Show availability and shipping details

• This item: Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by David S. Ebert

  In stock.
  Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
  This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
  

• Game Programming Gems 6 (Game Programming Gems (W/CD)) by Mike Dickheiser

  In stock.
  Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
  This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
  

ShaderX7: Advanced Rendering Techniques by Wolfgang Engel £34.19

GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Real-time Graphics by Randima Fernando (Series Editor) 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £39.84

High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Erik Reinhard £48.45

Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology) by Christer Ericson 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £50.35

Real-time Rendering by Tomas Akenine-Moller 4.2 out of 5 stars (4)  £51.30

› Explore similar items

Review
"This book has always been my favorite computer graphics book...The authors are the key inventors of the technology and some of the most creative individuals I know."-From the foreword by Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Stanford University

"This new edition updates the definitive book on the subject with 50% more material. Video game developers will be particularly interested in the demenstrations of procedural texturing and modeling on real-time hardware..."-Steve Anderson, CTO, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles

"Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition has kept up with the latest technology and provides insight and instruction on how to best use it. I would recommend it to anyone as an introduction to procedural techniquest or as a comprehensive reference."-Doug Roble, Creative Director of Software, Digital Domain

Product Description
The third edition of this classic tutorial and reference on procedural texturing and modeling is thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today's 3D graphics professionals and students. New for this edition are chapters devoted to real-time issues, cellular texturing, geometric instancing, hardware acceleration, futuristic environments, and virtual universes. In addition, the familiar authoritative chapters on which readers have come to rely contain all-new material covering L-systems, particle systems, scene graphs, spot geometry, bump mapping, cloud modeling, and noise improvements. There are many new spectacular color images to enjoy, especially in this edition's full-color format.

As in the previous editions, the authors, who are the creators of the methods they discuss, provide extensive, practical explanations of widely accepted techniques as well as insights into designing new ones. New to the third edition are chapters by two well-known contributors: Bill Mark of NVIDIA and John Hart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on state-of-the-art topics not covered in former editions.

An accompanying Web site (www.texturingandmodeling.com) contains all of the book's sample code in C code segments (all updated to the ANSI C Standard) or in RenderMan shading language, plus files of many magnificent full-color illustrations.

No other book on the market contains the breadth of theoretical and practical information necessary for applying procedural methods. More than ever, Texturing & Modeling remains the chosen resource for professionals and advanced students in computer graphics and animation.

*New chapters on: procedural real-time shading by Bill Mark, procedural geometric instancing and real-time solid texturing by John Hart, hardware acceleration strategies by David Ebert, cellular texturing by Steven Worley, and procedural planets and virtual universes by Ken Musgrave.
*New material on Perlin Noise by Ken Perlin.
*Printed in full color throughout.
*Companion Web site contains revised sample code and dozens of images.

See all Product Description

First Sentence
This chapter describes how to construct procedural texture functions in a variety of ways, starting from very simple textures and eventually moving on to quite elaborate ones. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index

Search inside this book:

3 Reviews 5 star:  (3) 4 star:    (0) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0)           Average Customer Review 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars The best summary short of lots of peer-reviewed papers., 21 Jul 1999 By A Customer This review is from: Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach (Hardcover) The first edition was outstanding for the sheer breadth of its coverage of ways of producing natural-appearing textures via computation. Coupled with an easy-to-read prose style and good examples and color plates, it'll make you think of ways of doing apparently unrelated things you'd never have thought of otherwise. I only got a glimpse of the second edition, but this has been a busy field the last five years, and I fully expect the second edition to be as useful and interesting as the first. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars THE procedural texturing book, 5 Jun 1999 By A Customer This review is from: Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach (Hardcover) It doesn't get better than this. If you're doing more with graphics than drawing circles and boxes, you NEED this book. The writing style is academic yet conversational. A solid math background is recommended. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   0 of 3 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A must for serious graphics developer and researcher, 7 Jul 1999 By A Customer This review is from: Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach (Hardcover) I found this book in a rack in a local book shop where they had kept books about Photoshop and Illustrator. I asked the book seller, he said it's about making nice images so it is there. Any way absolutely must book for serious graphics researcher. I got introduced to genetic textures, I was unaware of them. The book does not cover reaction diffusion textures. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 3 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

Multi-threading: A list by J. S. Hardman "Consultant software developer (contractor)"   C++ Development: A list by J. S. Hardman "Consultant software developer (contractor)"   Reviews of my gamedev related books: A list by Jukka D "JD" Create a Listmania! list

Search Listmania!

• Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Design Studies > Graphic Design
• Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Design Studies > Multimedia
• Books > Computing & Internet > Digital Lifestyle > Online Shopping > Amazon
• Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Graphics & Multimedia
• Books > Computing & Internet > Software & Graphics > Graphics & Multimedia > Animation & Multimedia
• Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Civil Engineering > Structural Engineering
• Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Engineering > Civil Engineering

Structural engineering
Computer Books: Desktop Publish
Computer Graphics
Computer Graphics - Design
Computer programming
Computers
Computers (Software)
Computers - Desktop Publishing
Computers / Computer Graphics / Design
Computing: Professional & Programming
Data Processing
Multimedia


i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

• Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
• I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
• I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.