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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: 3D Splines
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:27:52 +0000
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Yo Steve,

Could you tell me what you thought of these books that you mentioned. I went to
amazon.co.uk and reviews stated that it has printing errors in it making some of
the formulas un-readable, is this true?

What did you think of the explanations on the whole? Was it layed out well or a
sham of a job?

So many questions, too little time!!!!

Thanks
Max

Steve Tolin wrote:

> The only thing I can suggest besides what's alreaday been posted is the
> "Computer Graphics" Foley/Van Damm book which has all the formulad you would
> need......
>
> Another book is "Computer Graphics: Mathematical First Steps"  P. A. Egerton
> ISBN: 0135995728 which is a fabulous resource.....
>
> Steve Tolin
>
> Darco <rquat@surfsouth.com> wrote in message
> news:381FAE75.BD3A3572@surfsouth.com...
> > I will be working on a 3D raceing game, but I need to do my research on
> > 3D environments first. The "Blaze of Glory" 3D engine won't work for
> > this game, and I wanted to experement with other engines. The 3D system
> > in "Hover Raceing" is awesome, and after playing it for a while, I came
> > to the conclusion that it uses 3D splines to create it's tracks. I've
> > done stuff with dynamic TMD's, so making the TMD shouldn't be a prob -
> > the splines though are gonna be my prob.
> >
> > Does anyone have any information on how splines work, and/or how to
> > implement them with code?
> >
> > Another system that I wanted to consider would be making the entire 3D
> > world in a program like 3D Studio and then using that as the race track.
> > That's all good, but I have no idea how I would implement colision
> > detection.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > 'darco
> > darco@bigfoot.com

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