Mastering Front-End Web Development

By: Chong Lip Phang

ISBN-13: 9781687550279
ISBN-10: 1687550271
Published date: 2019-08-29
Modern graphics ‘shader architecture’ provides unprecedented access to graphical functions and processing power. With this book, programmers can harness its capabilities.Written by a professor for his students, skills are developed with carefully designed exercises.Part historical, part theoretical, and totally practical, this book develops all the software needed for an application that includes: faceted shading, Phong shading, texture-mapping, bump-mapping, displacement-mapping, model and image file access, meshes, curves, patches, user-controlled quaternion arcball, anti-aliasing, and text.Not a comprehensive review, but a direct path to powerful applications.”With the book, I almost didn’t need an instructor.” (student in the author’s class)