A practical book on the principles of radiosity and implementing the variety of its techniques and algorithms. Carefully details how to build a complete, reusable program from start to finish. Includes a four-page color section of images produced with the software.
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The first practical guide to creating stunningly realistic images on your PC using a new and exciting graphics technology called radiosity... Radiosity A Programmer's Perspective Once the exclusive domain of a handful of academic researchers working with high-powered graphics workstations, now you can use radiosity to create extremely realistic, true-color images using off-the-shelf personal computers. Radiosity offers the ability to accurately render diffuse reflections, color bleeding between surfaces, realistic shadows, and detailed shading within shadows. More than this, it can create photorealistic images that are impossible to achieve using conventional ray tracing techniques. This book offers you a unique opportunity to explore this technology in depth. Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective provides step-by-step guidance for the development of a fully functional, radiosity-based rendering program for Microsoft Windows and other graphical environments, including:
* A detailed explanation of radiosity theory and its associated algorithms (no knowledge of higher mathematics required!)
* Complete, fully documented, and compiler-independent C++ source code for HELIOS, a radiosity renderer for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT
* An extensive guide to the computer graphics radiosity literature
* A detailed explanation of radiosity theory and its associated algorithms (no knowledge of higher mathematics required!)
* Complete, fully documented, and compiler-independent C++ source code for HELIOS, a radiosity renderer for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT
* An extensive guide to the computer graphics radiosity literature
About the Author
About the author IAN ASHDOWN, PEng, is a professional software engineer and lighting technology researcher. He is President of byHeart Software Limited and Research and Development Manager for Ledalite Architectural Products Inc., and has written numerous articles for The C User's Journal, PC Techniques, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Embedded Systems Programming, and other computer magazines. He is also the author of five academic papers on lighting and computer graphics techniques.
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Radiosity: A reviewer's perspective,
By Ben Lerner (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective (Wiley Professional Computing) (Paperback)
This book was a wonderful introduction to radiosity theory and practice. There are a fair number of errata in the book, and the code doesn't quite work "as is", however, it presents all the information, and most of the algorithms in a clear, explanatory manner. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a small background in graphics and C+
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Radiosity: A reviewer's perspective,
By Ben Lerner (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective (Wiley Professional Computing) (Paperback)
This book was a wonderful introduction to radiosity theory and practice. There are a fair number of errata in the book, and the code doesn't quite work "as is", however, it presents all the information, and most of the algorithms in a clear, explanatory manner. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a small background in graphics and C+
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