3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

Description:

"The first half of the book details the design of a modern 3D graphics engine: a shader-based architecture with an abstract rendering API fed by hierarchical culling and state sorting. The second half of the book upgrades the generic 3D engine to a virtual globe engine by adding high precision rendering, accurate globe rendering, vector data rendering, out-of-core rendering, and terrain rendering. The algorithms and techniques in the book are not tied to any particular programming language or rendering API but they will provide concrete examples in C#, OpenGL, and GLSL"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Globes,  Computer graphics,  Texture mapping,  Digital mapping,  Computer-assisted instruction,  Search engines,  Programming,  Web search engines,  Three-dimensional imaging,  Imaging, Three-Dimensional,  Moteurs de recherche,  Programmation,  Moteurs de recherche sur Internet,  Imagerie tridimensionnelle,  Cartographie par ordinateur,  Placage de texture,  Three-dimensional,  COMPUTERS,  Web,  Search Engines