Essential Mathematics for Games & Interactive Applications, w. CD-ROM: Practical Guide for Programmers - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123742978 ISBN 13: 9780123742971

Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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 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 includesoptimization guidance throughout. The new edition will also provide developers with more concrete examples, 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. There is also an associated website with updates and code patches, and PowerPoint slides from presentations.

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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.
Lars M. Bishop is an engineer in the Handheld Developer Technologies group at NVIDIA. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Lars was the Chief Technology Officer at Numerical Design Limited, leading the development of the Gamebryo3D cross-platform game engine. He received a BS in Math/Computer Science from Brown University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His outside interests include photography, drumming, and playing bass guitar.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0123742978
• ISBN 13: 9780123742971
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 670
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