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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: General 3d books
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:30:03 +0000
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Mario Wynands wrote:
> 
> Rikki Prince <netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:7ffr3m$dpk4@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
> > I know I'm gonna want to go into 3d programming, although reading all the
> > tutorials I can find on Net Yaroze 3d stuff, after seeing some of the NG
> > messages, I realise I need a better grounding in 3d maths and the like.
> Can
> > anyone suggest any good 3d books?
> 
> The two books we use for 3D graphical stuff are
> 
> "3D Computer Graphics"
> Alan Watt, Addison-Wesley 1993, ISBN 0-201-63186-5
> 
> "Computer Graphics - Principles and Practice"
> James Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven Feiner, John Hughes, Addison-Wesley
> 1993, ISBN 0-201-84840-6

Yeah - Foley & Van Dam is the book to get as a primer so you know the
concepts, then invest in some of the Graphics Gems series for a few
faster implementations and more advanved algorithms (they're a bit
variable
so make sure you go through the contents to make sure you get the
volumes
with stuff you need in them).

> Mario Wynands

Craig.