First of all the concept and design of this is perfect: a study of computer graphics covering the fundementals but using a modern full featured easy-to-use API, OpenGL. For the most part the title lives up to this with a few serious exceptions that force me to rate it 3 stars. First of all are the typo's. There are several and unfortunatley they mostly appear in equations, which can make things very confusing, and they aren't totally cataloged on the authors web site. Another very serious problem is with Chapter 4 which covers the math of graphics. Given that this is generaly a junior level CS course, and that matrices were covered in Algerbra 2, which is generaly taken sophomore year in HS, many of us haven't looked at a dot product in 5 years. So the chapter should really contain a few pages to dust off those cobwebs. The author also works through his equations without much commentary on the why. He also makes a point of explicitly defining his notation, and then doesn't stick to it. At one point he begins using a variable without ever having stated what it was supposed to represent. Unfortunately this comes in the key chapter covering the mathmatic principles, so it will have to be supplemented with some other source covering the same material. Not good when your talking about the fundementals, and there is a lack of well written instruction of this topic.
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