Mathematics for game programming and computer graphics : explore the essential mathematics for creating, rendering, and manipulating 3D virtual environments / Penny de Byl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Byl, Penny, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Development.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file HTML

Biography/History:

Byl Penny de: Penny de Byl is a full stack developer with an honors in graphics and Ph. D. in artificial intelligence for games. She has a passion for teaching, teaching games development and computer graphics for over 25 years in universities in Australia and Europe. Her best-selling textbooks, including Holistic Game Development with Unity, are used in over 100 institutions. She has won numerous awards for teaching, including an Australian Government Excellence in Teaching Award and the Unity Mobile Game Curriculum Competition. Her approach to teaching computer science and related fields is project-based giving you hands-on workshops you can immediately get your teeth into. The full range of her teaching interests can be found at H3D Learn.

Summary:

Mathematics is an essential skill when it comes to graphics and game development, particularly if you want to understand the generation of real-time computer graphics and the manipulation of objects and environments in a detailed way. Python, together with Pygame and PyOpenGL, provides you with the opportunity to explore these features under the hood, revealing how computers generate and manipulate 3D environments.

Contents:

Hello graphics window : you're on your way

Let's start drawing

Line plotting pixel by pixel

Graphics and game engine components

Let's light it up!

Updating and drawing the graphics environment

Interactions with the keyboard and mouse for dynamic graphics programs

Reviewing our knowledge of triangles

Practicing vector essentials

Getting acquainted with lines, rays and normals

Manipulating the light and texture of triangles

Mastering affine transformations

Understanding the importance of matrices

Working with coordinate spaces

Navigating the view space

Rotating with quaternions

Vertex and fragment shading

Customizing the render pipeline

Rendering visual realism like a pro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781801077491

1801077495

OCLC:

1350801895