Advanced Linux 3D Graphics Programming

There are currently no directly competitive titles on the market that provide the serious Linux programmer and developer with an overview of how to use 3-D graphics with this rapidly growing operating system. Norman Lin focuses on using C++ code relative to the 3-D graphics programming under Linux. The author focuses on providing illustrations of each graphics concept with self-contained code examples and then provides the programmer with the integration of each concept into a larger 3D engine framework. The programmer then is able to use this framework and create a real-time, portal-based engine. The title includes a very distinctive CD which contains a series of animated 3-D videos illustrating key 3-D graphics concepts such as the transformation from world space into camera space. The recent development of Blender 3-D is also included in the book which is a professional quality 3-D modeler available free to programmers and developers. I am a senior at University of DeVry in Game and Simlution Programming and this book fits in right with what I am learning at the time. It seems a little overtechnical at times but as I learn more about programming, I'm starting to understand it more and more. Its a good book but it needs to be updated. The scariest problem was not being able to run the code in the book until I found the update. The code on the disk needs to be updated via the authors web site which doesn't seem to be working when I checked. I had to google the title and find the updates that I finally got to work. Other than that it's cool. It's not as bad as some of the reviews I read. Be warned though, I think the author doesn't realize how smart he is and sometimes takes that fact for granted when he talks to his audience. Other than this, I think the author should make this a wiki-book or publish another more updated work. Currently, there are no directly competitive titles to Lin's title, and considering the explosive growth of not only 3-D graphics but the Linux operating system, this new book will be valuable to developers interested in graphics programming. The CD-ROM contains a series of animated 3-D videos illustrating key 3-D graphics concepts, such as the transformation from world space into camera space. It also features Blender 3-D, a professional quality 3-D modeler. Currently, there are no directly competitive titles to Lin's title, and considering the explosive growth of not only 3D graphics but the Linux operating system, this new Wordware title is positioned to become a bestseller. During the course of the 15th century, great painters of the Renaissance grew very excited about a new discovery that was sweeping the artistic world.