Hi, I bought the book "Real time rendering" however the math in it is way beyond me. The idea of taking entire semester courses isn''t sounding time efficient because probably only a few sections of the course will focus on the math i need for graphics. Are there any books that focus just on teaching the math of 3D graphics?? ECKILLER

I havn''t read it (yet) but there is an allegedly good book on quaternions and rotation sequences. At amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691058725/o/qid=956603470/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/104-7357000-1336467

Mike

A great way to start actually, is to pick up a basic linear algebra book. Something that has simultaneous equation solving, vector and matrix math, moving into eigenvectors/eigenvalues and more complicated stuff. There are tons of them out there and they''re a great primer.

I have Cutting Edge 3D Game Programming by John de Goes. He''s the guy that wrote the awful so-called "book" Direct3D Game Programming, but Cutting Edge is pretty good. It deals mainly with DOS and not at all with DirectX, but that''s good, because it relies on no APIs; it does everything itself. It discusses transformations, phong and gourad shading, perspective-correct texture mapping, etc.

Of course, it''s like $40 or $50 even though about 40% is useless to you (it deals with graphics, input, and sound under DOS). So you may want to scour the web instead. MSDN''s Direct3D IM tutorials actually give the surprisingly simple code for transforming polygon coordinates into screen coordinates without using Direct3D''s transformation pipeline.

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