Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) 3rd Edition

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The third edition of this classic tutorial and reference on procedural texturing and modeling is thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today's 3D graphics professionals and students. New for this edition are chapters devoted to real-time issues, cellular texturing, geometric instancing, hardware acceleration, futuristic environments, and virtual universes. In addition, the familiar authoritative chapters on which readers have come to rely contain all-new material covering L-systems, particle systems, scene graphs, spot geometry, bump mapping, cloud modeling, and noise improvements. There are many new spectacular color images to enjoy, especially in this edition's full-color format.

As in the previous editions, the authors, who are the creators of the methods they discuss, provide extensive, practical explanations of widely accepted techniques as well as insights into designing new ones. New to the third edition are chapters by two well-known contributors: Bill Mark of NVIDIA and John Hart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on state-of-the-art topics not covered in former editions.

An accompanying Web site (www.texturingandmodeling.com) contains all of the book's sample code in C code segments (all updated to the ANSI C Standard) or in RenderMan shading language, plus files of many magnificent full-color illustrations.

No other book on the market contains the breadth of theoretical and practical information necessary for applying procedural methods. More than ever, Texturing & Modeling remains the chosen resource for professionals and advanced students in computer graphics and animation.

*New chapters on: procedural real-time shading by Bill Mark, procedural geometric instancing and real-time solid texturing by John Hart, hardware acceleration strategies by David Ebert, cellular texturing by Steven Worley, and procedural planets and virtual universes by Ken Musgrave.
*New material on Perlin Noise by Ken Perlin.
*Printed in full color throughout.
*Companion Web site contains revised sample code and dozens of images.

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"This book has always been my favorite computer graphics book...The authors are the key inventors of the technology and some of the most creative individuals I know."
-From the foreword by Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Stanford University

"This new edition updates the definitive book on the subject with 50% more material. Video game developers will be particularly interested in the demonstrations of procedural texturing and modeling on real-time hardware..."
-Steve Anderson, CTO, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles

"Texturing & Modeling, Third Edition has kept up with the latest technology and provides insight and instruction on how to best use it. I would recommend it to anyone as an introduction to procedural techniques or as a comprehensive reference."
-Doug Roble, Creative Director of Software, Digital Domain

Procedural methods are storage-saving modeling and texturing techniques that provide amazing results. This third edition of the most respected tutorial and reference on procedural methods is fully revised and expanded by today's 3D graphics practitioners.

Especially noteworthy in this edition are bonus chapters by Bill Mark, author of Cg, and by John Hart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, providing insights of particular interest to game developers as well as all users of real-time graphics.

As in both previous editions of Texturing & Modeling, Third Edition, the award-winning creators of these procedural methods show, step by step, how to produce the breathtaking effects illustrated in this beautiful, full-color book.

Features:

*Real-time issues for game developers

*Seven brand-new chapters, including real-time rendering, cellular texturing, and hardware acceleration

*All new information on particle systems, spot geometry, bump mapping, cloud modeling, and noise

*Full-color illustrations throughout

*Companion website (www.texturingandmodeling.com) containing C code procedures and RenderMan shading language for executing procedures

David S. Ebert is associate professor at Purdue University and editor in chief for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. F. Kenton Musgrave, CEO and CTO of Pandromeda, Inc., has developed digital effects for Titanic and Apollo 13. Darwyn Peachey is vice president of Pixar Animation Studios and developer of RenderMan. Ken Perlin is a professor of computer science and director of the Center for Advanced Technology and the Media Research Lab at New York University, and developer of Perlin Noise. Steven Worley publishes plug-in tools for 3D packages through his company, Worley Laboratories.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd edition (December 16, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 712 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1558608486
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558608481
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches

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M. Ochem Quentin

A must-have reference more than 10 years after publication

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016

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Publised more than 10 years ago, this books is still a reference in the matter. It contains many algorithms and code examples that are directly usable to develop procedural content generation - in particular (but not only) textures and shape.

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David Elder

Extremely useful and interesting, but not technical enough

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2004

This is an update of a classic book on procedural texturing and modeling by the main founders of the field. The book presents lengthy discussions of classical procedural texturing using various noise functions of the sort originated by Ken Perlin (one of the authors). It discusses newer texturing techniques such as cellular texturing, which can be used, for example, to create convincing stone patterns. Other chapters focus on animating solid textures (e.g. marble forming, volumetric gasses, etc.), fractal terrain generation, and tips for utilizing existing graphics APIs and hardware for realtime procedural texturing. This is only a sampling of the topics covered.
Code samples in C and RenderMan are given throughout, although most algorithms are given in only one of those languages. This can be a bit of a problem, as many readers will probably not have access to a RenderMan implementation. Nevertheless, it is not too difficult to translate the RenderMan code into C code in many instances.
The biggest drawback to this book is its lack of rigorous technical coverage. The decision to omit many mathematical details was a conscious choice on the part of the authors. Instead the book is mostly prose discussion of the techniques and the coarse descriptions of the underlying concepts. Although the prose is mostly clear, many times I felt myself in need of more specific, technical details. Fortunately, the book's authors are the primary researchers in this field and most of the ideas in the book have been published in academic journals. It was very easy to supplement the book with these primary sources.
Overall I found this to be a very interesting and useful book, with many algorithms essentially ready-to-run right out of the book. It would get five stars, except for the lack of technical and mathematical details mentioned above. Every serious worker in graphics needs to have this book on their shelf. I use mine often.

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An E for effort but not exposition

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2006

This book has five authors, and that is exactly the way it is written. It changes character practically at the beginning of every chapter. It is obvious that the authors have a great deal of knowledge of procedural textures and modeling, however, it is all just lumped together into one big hard-to-sift-through mountain. You will have to do a great deal of work to extract algorithms from this book. Only because there is good information there do I give this book three stars instead of two. Truthfully, it is probably a 2.5 star book.

An example of the authors' inconsistent narrative style is this: Chapter two goes into great detail on the obvious - clamping, antialiasing, and the brick wall texture. In chapter 15 on "Fractal Solid Textures", the authors brush over the complex issue of how to produce fire, water, wind, and rocky terrains. Also, the vast majority of the time, rather than show the procedural modeling with pseudocode or with a high level language such as C, the authors choose "Renderman", which is unfamiliar to many people and makes the included code useless to those uninitiated in that language. Plus, in many cases Renderman has functions that hide the details of particular algorithms. This is counterproductive, since the algorithms are supposed to be the point of this book in the first place, or at least I thought that they were.

My advice to people interested in this subject is to skip this book unless you can find it at a greatly reduced price and look online at Elias Hugo's webpages on procedural modeling. Mr. Hugo explains the authors' techniques much better than the authors themselves do.

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Zumi Kurakku

A low-level intro to procedural graphics coding concepts.

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2005

This book is for experienced programmers who want to understand the fundamentals of procedural graphics generation. This book is not for artists looking for practical applications of procedural texturing and modeling concepts.

The authors cover a very large array of topics in the field, including many pertinent code examples, mostly in the RenderMan shading language. It focuses on the groundwork of the field from the first texture maps in the 70's onward, with a cursory mention of the state of the art at the time of publication.

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"The particular kind of fractal we're building is called fractional Brownian motion, or fBm for short. fBm is characterized by its power spectrum, which charts exactly how amplitude relates to frequency. Oops! Pardon me - I'll knock off the math."

"Long ago I gave this idea the wonderfully unpretentious - not! - moniker "generalized Impressionistic texture," or GIT for short. (We need more TLAs - threeletter acronyms.) The GIT matrix generator system takes the form of a time-varying swarm of color samples in a color space, usually the RGB color cube."

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DG2

Great book, but outdated

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2012

The ideas in this book are timeless and still interesting and useful today. My largest gripes about the book are that all of its source-code is written in archaic languages like RenderMan and the Stanford Shader Language instead of more universal and modern ones such as C and cg. Nevertheless, there's some really cool stuff in this book if you are a person who enjoys procedural modeling and texturing like me.

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Michele

Amazing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2012

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This book is a must for everyone who wants to understand how CG works and to create applications including textures and terrain generators, together with shaders for realtime and other.
I put 4 stars, even if I consider it a 5 stars, only because I had to read some chapters twice and together with other online materials just to understand better, but it's just me, I mean, I'm not a genius in math, but they use a very common language, especially the chapters of Dr. Musgrave.
So if you know the matters, better for you, otherwise put a lot of attention.
The book is very inspiring: I'm applying its theory with SideFX Houdini in my free time and I'm learning new things day after day.

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Very interesting read, didn't cover terrains enough.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2014

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At least in the terrain chapter. Basically it told me vary the fractal dimension with height to get jagged peaks and smooth valleys.

Ines Scharmacher

DAS Referenz-Buch

Reviewed in Germany on July 2, 2017

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Was soll man sagen, vermutlich DER Klassiker für prozedurale Programmierung. Die Namen der Autoren versprechen viel, und das Versprechen wird gehalten!

Das Buch ist sehr ausführlich geschrieben, man kann gut folgen. Es wird tief auf die Mathematik hinter den Algorithmen eingegangen, vieles wird ausführlicher erklärt als ich es in anderen Büchern gesehen habe. Allerdings so dass man gut folgen kann auch wenn man nur "normale" Mathematik beherrscht.

Ein großer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Generierung von prozeduralen Texturen. Es wird Schritt für Schritt erläutert welche Funktionen oder Algorithmen sich für was eignen, um z.B. eine Backstein-Textur zu erzeugen. Aber auch auf Terrain-Generierung, Flammen oder Wasser etc wird eingegangen. Ausgezeichnet ist dass auf die unterschiedlichsten Noise Algorithmen eingegangen wird, von Perlin zu Voronoi etc.

Schade dass das Buchin der aktuellsten dritten Edition nur noch so schwer erhältlich ist. Für mich ist es DIE Referenz für prozedurale Programmierung!!

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