{"id":191,"date":"2009-08-25T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:41:28","slug":"fundamentals-of-computer-graphics-3rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/fundamentals-of-computer-graphics-3rd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 3rd Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Peter-Shirley\/dp\/1568814690?tag=realtimerenderin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195 alignright\" title=\"Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, 3rd Edition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/coversmall.jpg\" alt=\"coversmall\" width=\"125\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>One bit of <em>deja vu<\/em> for me at SIGGRAPH this year was another book signing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akpeters.com\/\">A K Peters<\/a> booth.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s SIGGRAPH had the signing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Real-Time-Rendering-Tomas-MOller\/dp\/1568814240?tag=realtimerenderin\"><em>Real-Time Rendering<\/em><\/a>; this year I was at the book signing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Peter-Shirley\/dp\/1568814690?tag=realtimerenderin\">the third edition of Fundamentals of Computer Graphics<\/a>.\u00a0 My presence at the signing was due to the fact that I wrote a chapter on graphics for games (this edition also has new chapters on implicit modeling, color, and visualization, as well as updates to the existing chapters).\u00a0 As in the case of <em>Real-Time Rendering<\/em>, I was interested in contributing to this book as a fan of the previous editions.\u00a0 <em>Fundamentals<\/em> is targeted as a &#8220;first graphics book&#8221; so it has a slightly different audience than <em>Real-Time Rendering<\/em>, which is meant to be the reader&#8217;s second book on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>At the A K Peters booth I also got to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fundamentals-of-Computer-Graphics-ebook\/dp\/B002K8Q9Q4?tag=realtimerenderin\">the Kindle edition of <em>Fundamentals<\/em><\/a> (the illustrations in <em>Real-Time Rendering<\/em> rely on color to convey information, so a Kindle edition will have to wait for color devices).\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t jumped on the Kindle bandwagon personally (the DRM bothers me; when I buy something I like to <strong>own<\/strong> it), but I know people who are quite pleased with their Kindle (or iPhone Kindle application).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One bit of deja vu for me at SIGGRAPH this year was another book signing at the A K Peters booth.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s SIGGRAPH had the signing for Real-Time Rendering; this year I was at the book signing for the third edition of Fundamentals of Computer Graphics.\u00a0 My presence at the signing was due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}