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



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Autore: Cozzi Patrick Visualizza persona
Titolo: 3D engine design for virtual globes / / by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2011
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, photographs
Disciplina: 005.75/8
Soggetto topico: Search engines - Programming
Web search engines
Three-dimensional imaging
Digital mapping
Texture mapping
Classificazione: COM012000
Persona (resp. second.): RingKevin
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: 3D engine design for virtual globes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-429-10846-X
1-56881-711-8
1-4398-6558-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788060303321
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