3D engine design for virtual globes / by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cozzi, Patrick, author.

Ring, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Search engines--Programming.

Search engines.

Web search engines.

Three-dimensional imaging.

Digital mapping.

Texture mapping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2011.

Summary:

Supported with code examples and the authors’ real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind. The content is also useful for general graphics and games, especially planet and massive-world engines. With pragmatic advice throughout, it is essential reading for practitioners, researchers, and hobbyists in these areas, and can be used as a text for a special topics course in computer graphics.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction

chapter 2 Math Foundations

chapter 3 Renderer Design

chapter 4 Globe Rendering

chapter 5 Vertex Transform Precision

chapter 6 Depth Buffer Precision

chapter 7 Vector Data and Polylines

chapter 8 Polygons

chapter 9 Billboards

chapter 10 Exploiting Parallelism in Resource Preparation

chapter 11 Terrain Basics

chapter 12 Massive-Terrain Rendering

chapter 13 Geometry Clipmapping

chapter 14 Chunked LOD.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040060032

104006003X

9780429108464

042910846X

9781568817118

1568817118

9781439865583

1439865582

OCLC:

900611547