Patrick Cozzi, Kevin Ring

3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While virtual globes have achieved widespread popularity, from Google Earth to NASA World Wind, no single book covers the topic of globe rendering. Filling this gap, 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes presents an in-depth treatment of rendering algorithms utilized by virtual globes. The book illustrates how to accurately render real-world data sets through core rendering algorithms for globes, terrain, imagery, and vector data. Example code, the latest book-related news, and other resources are available on a companion website.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040060032
• Artikelnr.: 72290712

Autorenporträt

Patrick Cozzi is a senior software developer on the 3D team at Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI). He is a contributor to SIGGRAPH and the Game Engine Gems series. Before joining AGI, he worked on storage systems in IBM's Extreme Blue internship program at the Almaden Research Lab, interned with IBM's z/VM operating system team, and interned with the chipset validation group at Intel. He earned a master's degree in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.

Kevin Ring is the lead architect of AGI Components at Analytical Graphics, Inc. In his software development career, he has worked on a wide range of software systems, from class libraries to web applications to 3D game engines to interplanetary spacecraft trajectory design systems. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. FUNDAMENTALS: Math Foundations. Renderer Design. Globe
Rendering. PRECISION: Vertex Transform Precision. Depth Buffer Precision.
VECTOR DATA: Vector Data and Polylines. Polygons. Billboards. Exploiting
Parallelism in Resource Preparation. TERRAIN: Terrain Basics. Massive
Terrain Rendering. Geometry Clipmapping. Chunked LOD. Appendix.
Bibliography. Index.