Topics include advanced implementation of image space techiques and non-photorealistic rendering in Microsoft's DirectX 9.0
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Wolfgang Engel is also the editor of ShaderX2: Introductions & Tutorials with DirectX 9 and the editor and a coauthor of Direct3D ShaderX: Vertex and Pixel Shader Tips and Tricks. He spoke at GDC 2003 and at Vision Days 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting approaches, some good tips,
By wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
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The main sets of Tips'n'Tricks are about what you might expect: planets, suns, iridescence, water, depth of field blur, and so on. There are a few unusual ones, as well - posterization, interesting filters, even ray-tracing and general purpose computation.
The disk was a bit disappointing. Almost all of the demos worked, and none of them were come-ons for anyone's products. That's the good news. There were far fewer demos than chapters in the book, though - some of the sections that interested me most did not have support on the CD. At very least, some of that CD space could have been used for a still-picture gallery to supplement the limited color section in the book. Oh, well. If you're an absolutely dedicated graphics programmer, this may offer a few items of interest. As with other tips'n'tricks books, there is no real progression through the material - it's a grab bag, and you may or may not grab an item that meets your needs. //wiredweird
5.0 out of 5 stars
A re-emerging classic,
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An old, classic book that wouldn't have a place in modern computer graphics except for one thing: the emergence of mobile. Although these techniques are dated and somewhat archaic on PC and console systems, they're perfect for use on mobile GPUs as seen in popular iOS and Android based devices.
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In most cases I still use vertex shader version 1.1, as this is executed in hardware on the greatest number of machines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shader system, specular bump mapping, radiosity map, current texel, specular power function, pixel shader, car paint shader, destination texture, displacement map data, occluder mesh, precomputed radiance transfer, vertex shader, render target texture, base texture map, extrusion algorithm, occluder geometry, irradiance environment maps, multiple render targets, second render pass, shadow volume extrusion, tex coords, downsampled image, stereoscopic rendering, cloth phase, shader format Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Color Plate, Advanced Image Processing, Fragment-level Phong Illumination, Dense Matrix Algebra, Gamebryo Graphics Engine, Meshuggah's Effects Explained, Terrain Geomorphing, Wolfgang Engel, Hardware Using Shaders, Collision Shaders, Tom Forsyth, Non-Photorealistic Post-processing Filters, Wordware Publishing, Sum of Squares, Advanced Sky Dome Rendering, Software-only Implementation of Microsoft, Acknowledgments Thanks, Chris Brennan, Mosaic Effect Using Character Glyphs, Mucky Foot, Neighbor Dual Coord Set, Instruction Register, John Isidoro, Layered Car Paint Shader, Surface Bumping New!
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In most cases I still use vertex shader version 1.1, as this is executed in hardware on the greatest number of machines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shader system, specular bump mapping, radiosity map, current texel, specular power function, pixel shader, car paint shader, destination texture, displacement map data, occluder mesh, precomputed radiance transfer, vertex shader, render target texture, base texture map, extrusion algorithm, occluder geometry, irradiance environment maps, multiple render targets, second render pass, shadow volume extrusion, tex coords, downsampled image, stereoscopic rendering, cloth phase, shader format Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Color Plate, Advanced Image Processing, Fragment-level Phong Illumination, Dense Matrix Algebra, Gamebryo Graphics Engine, Meshuggah's Effects Explained, Terrain Geomorphing, Wolfgang Engel, Hardware Using Shaders, Collision Shaders, Tom Forsyth, Non-Photorealistic Post-processing Filters, Wordware Publishing, Sum of Squares, Advanced Sky Dome Rendering, Software-only Implementation of Microsoft, Acknowledgments Thanks, Chris Brennan, Mosaic Effect Using Character Glyphs, Mucky Foot, Neighbor Dual Coord Set, Instruction Register, John Isidoro, Layered Car Paint Shader, Surface Bumping New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Machine Vision by Ramesh Jain on page 464, and page 518
- Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques by Alan Watt on page 5
- Linear Algebra by Terry Lawson on page 379
- Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by James D. Foley on page 464
- Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Press on page 5
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