Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications: A Programmer's Guide, Second Edition - Couverture rigide

Van Verth, James M.; Bishop, Lars M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0123742978 ISBN 13 : 9780123742971

Editeur : CRC Press, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Van Verth James

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, 2nd edition presents the core mathematics necessary for sophisticated 3D graphics and interactive physical simulations. The book begins with linear algebra and matrix multiplication and expands on this foundation to cover such topics as color and lighting, interpolation, animation and basic game physics. Essential Mathematics focuses on the issues of 3D game development important to programmers and includes optimization guidance throughout.

The new edition Windows code will now use Visual Studio.NET. There will also be DirectX support provided, along with OpenGL - due to its cross-platform nature. Programmers will find more concrete examples included in this edition, as well as additional information on tuning, optimization and robustness.

The book has a companion CD-ROM with exercises and a test bank for the academic secondary market, and for main market: code examples built around a shared code base, including a math library covering all the topics presented in the book, a core vector/matrix math engine, and libraries to support basic 3D rendering and interaction.

--Simple game engine with math, rendering, and input libraries on the CD-ROM, so that game developers can immediately start applying the techniques they learn in a basic codebase.
--Exercises on the CD-ROM for educators to use for course material
--Code samples shown throughout the book for real-world application

Biographie de l'auteur :

James M. Van Verth is a founding member of Red Storm Entertainment, a division of Ubisoft, where he has been a lead engineer for nine years. For the past eight years he has also been a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conferences, teaching the all-day tutorial "Math for Game Programmers,” on which this book is based. He has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Dartmouth College and M.S. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0123742978
• ISBN 13: 9780123742971
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 704