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Vector Games Math Processors (Wordware Game Math Library)

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This book is for professionals and intermediate programmers interested in optimizing 3D vector calculations of their code. So this book gives you a clue what and how to do. I think a really professional book from a professional. It gives you a nice start to build fast code for vector and matrix calculations.

Maybe faster then the DirectX implementations. ;-)

Some important notes about the book:

1. nice explanations and figures

2. no nonsense code or listnings

3. all working code and compiled binaries

4. 4 platforms supported - so if you are coding a proggy in OpenGl for Mac and Windows. It will compile with a appropriate compiler.

5. no stupid or extrordinary woodoo assembler code - understandable code!

6. many instruction sets are explained and implemented like MMX, 3DNow, SSE and so on

A great buy. Satisfaction is guaranteed.

Martin

Berlin

The author seems knowledgeable in the area he covers, but, unfortunately, can't write: there isn't one clear paragraph in the whole book, not one coherent chapter -- this book reads like a transcript of a mental patient's ranting: disjointed and random, ungrammatical, having no logical structure, no direction; with concepts used w/o being defined before (or after!); wrong words used all the time (or, alternatively, missing a word now and then) -- all in all, a sizeable load of gibberish that's torture to parse and impossible to understand. Even vector math itself is not defined!

The author, if he must write at all, should team up with a competent technical writer, maybe as a coauthor, especially since the publisher, Wordware (based on my observations, a second-rate outfit in general) doesn't seem keen on providing adequate editorial contribution