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GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics

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GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics

GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics by Randima Fernando
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; (March 22, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0321228324 | DjVu | 14 Mb | 816 pages

GPU Gems has won a prestigious Front Line Award from Game Developer Magazine. The Front Line Awards recognize products that enable faster and more efficient game development, advancing the state of the art.
«GPU Gems is a cool toolbox of advanced graphics techniques. Novice programmers and graphics gurus alike will find the Gems practical, intriguing and useful.»
— Tim Sweeney, Lead Programmer of Unreal at Epic Games
GPU Gems is a compilation of articles covering practical real-time graphics techniques arising from the research and practice of cutting-edge developers. It focuses on the programmable graphics pipeline available in today's graphics processing units (GPUs) and highlights quick and dirty tricks used by leading developers, as well as fundamental, performance-conscious techniques for creating advanced visual effects. The contributors and editors, collectively, bring countless years of experience to enlighten and propel the reader into the fascinating world of programmable real-time graphics.
Major topics covered include:
— Natural effects— Lighting and shadows— Materials— Image processing— Performance and practicalities— Beyond triangles
Contributors are from the following universities and corporations:
— Alias Systems— Brown University— Croteam— Cyan Worlds— Hochschule Bremen— Industrial Light & Magic— iXBT.com— Monolith Productions— New York University— Novarama— NVIDIA— Paralelo Computacao— Piranha Bytes— Pixar Animation Studios— Siemens Medical Solutions— Softimage Co.— Softlab-NSK— Sony Pictures Imageworks— Stanford University— UC Davis— UNC-Chapel Hill— Universitat Pompeu Fabra— University of Utah— University of Waterloo
The accompanying CD-ROM includes complementary examples and sample programs.


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