Free Online Book: “Programming Vertex, Geometry and Pixel Shaders”
This a very nice Xmas gift for computer graphics developers: a free online book about vertex, geometry and pixel shaders programming in Direct3D 9 and 10.
This book covers the following topics:
- environmental effects (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, Single Pass Environment Mapping, Dynamic Particle Systems).
- lighting (Foundation and theory, Direct Light Sources, Techniques For Dynamic Per-Pixel Lighting, Phong and Blinn-Phong, Cook-Torrance, Oren-Nayar, Strauss, Ward, Ashikhmin-Shirley)
- shadows (Shadow Volumes, Shadow Maps, Ray-traced Shadows)
- level of detail techniques (Managing Level of Detail, Dynamic Patch Tessellation)
- procedural synthesis (procedural textures)
- post processing (Color Filters, High-Dynamic Range Rendering, Light Streaks, Depth of Field, Motion Blur)
Really cool!
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Warning: gamedev.net wiki section seems to have some problem… yesterday I could see the book but now it’s another story… Too success???
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