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Texturing and Modeling Hardcover – Jan. 1 1650

by David S. Ebert (Author), F. Kenton Musgrave (Author), Darwyn Peachey (Author),

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Part of: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics (40 books)

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Procedural rendering, modeling, shading and texturing are of growing importance in computer graphics and animation, and, to date, there is no other comprehensive book covering these topics. The book will contain a toolbox of procedures upon which programmers can build a library of procedural textures and objects. It will also include extensive explanations of how these functions work, and how to design new functions. The revision includes updates to the core original text and an additional four chapters. These new chapters introduce and present to the graphics community the state of the art concerning the procedural approach. New chapters include: Cellular Texture Generation, Volumetric Cloud Modeling with Implicit Functions, Interacting with Virtual Actors Rendering with Adaptive Level of Detail.

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The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics
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415 pages
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English
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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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Jan. 1 1650
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19.69 x 2.54 x 24.77 cm
ISBN-10

080166361X
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978-0801663611
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About the Author

BIOGRAPHIES Dr. David S. Ebert is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his PhD. in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University, and is a frequent course organizer at SIGGRAPH.

F. Kenton Musgrave is an assistant professor in the computer science department at George Washington University. He received his PhD. in computer science from Yale.

Darwyn Peachey has worked on animation and rendering software at Pixar since 1988. He received BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.

Ken Perlin is an associate professor of computer science and the director of the Media Research Laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received his PhD. in computer science at the Courant Institute.

Steve Worley is an active researcher in graphics texturing, with experience in practical implementation of textures for use by other 3-D artists. He is the author of the popular Essence library of algorithmic textures.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0122287304
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; Subsequent edition (Jan. 1 1650)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 415 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080166361X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801663611
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 2.54 x 24.77 cm

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cozdas

A MUST for a Texture & Material Programmer

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2000

This book covers all of the CG aspects needed to code material and texture applications. Many commercial CG softwares are using the essential theory and practice given in this book. This book seems as if the compilation of the best Siggraph papers of the pionering researchers of the subject.
If you need to learn the procedural textures and materials: this is THE book.

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Academia is a poor basis for practical exposition

Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2001

This book has several serious problems.
The most glaring is that a significant number of the examples are coded in the "Renderman shading language". This language serves, in this book, to hide detail, detail specifically related to producing textures. Of course, if you know the language, you're fine - but most won't know the language and so this is a grievous error.
By way of welcome contrast, other examples in this same book are instead presented as C code fragments or functions. That's just the ticket - using a broadly known, freely available, relatively low-level language with no recourse to unknown hidden graphics functionality is precisely the way to go when explaining ideas in the domain of those this book is intended to convey.
The second problem is one of content. While being concise to the level of a math text is not desirable, this book contains a very sparse field of useful information considering the number of pages. The margins are too wide, the text too large, the form factor of the book too small, and the authors too wordy to possibly convey a good basis for texturing in general - it is a broad and fascinating field, touched only in the briefest and most unsatisfying manner by this book.
I do take issue with the reviewer who complained about the exposition on how to make a brick texture; that area of the text, while it may be already quite familiar to many who are interested in texturing, contains precisely the level of detail that needs to pervade a book of this type, and detail about steps that underly critical basic texturing ideas. Without understanding those basic texturing tools, a novice misses the first step on the stairs and fall on their face. The problem is, this approach is not consistent for more complex ideas in this volume, few as those actually are.
The book is entitled "Texturing and Modeling". While there is a moderate amount of texturing information in it, whatever you do, don't get it if modeling is your goal. It is very nearly devoid of modeling information, and what there is (smoke, a planet simulation, a few other items) is very basic indeed.
Finally, as a general critique, the authors (all of them) need to learn the basic idea that when presenting a function in any language to a new audience, one should precisely define the domain (and rationale) of the inputs and outputs of the function. As an example, one might encode the function for Perlin noise, and have no idea whatsoever as to what values to feed it to get particular types of results. For those of us who can read and understand what the function is actually doing (which is esoteric, make no mistake about it) the answers will eventually be illuminated by careful study of the function. However, this is very advanced material, and I am absolutely certain that many readers will be unable to figure out how to effectively use this function without a great deal of trial and error. You can also read that as "wasting a great deal of their time." That is because they won't be learning anything that could not have been conveyed by the author(s) in a single short paragraph of domain information.
In summary:
The 2 stars is because I didn't think this was a very good book. On the other hand, it is one of the very few books that deals with the subject at all, and for that reason, you should definitely own it if textures are an interest of yours.
If you're newly interested in textures, this will give you a basis for further exploration. It won't give you a cookbook by any means.
If you're looking for cookbook and "how to" approaches, get on the web and the newsgroups.
Finally, if you're considering writing a good book about creating textures, by all means, please do. The world needs a good one: this most definitely isn't it. I'd be delighted to be one of the first owners of your new book.

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CM Evans

hits and misses

Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2002

I'm using this book because I use a shading programing (shaderlab pro 2)language for truespace that is derivitive of renderman. In that sense it was helpfull becuase it filled in the gaps of the poor docs that came with shaderlab. It took me from scratch to a basic understanding of procedural coding. Oddly, the one thing it didn't include that I assumed would be there was a discussion of the worelynoise function and feature points. This was totally strange because one of the authors was worely! Even stranger was that "advanced renderman" did do a decent discussion of it, so now I'll have to buy that! Some people might want to check out "advanced renderman" because it's less intense mathematically and gives more basic insight to renderman usage.

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akbar ali

Could have been better

Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2000

Okay, the content of the book was excelent. My question was why did not the authors of the book have a some executables on the CD. If someone has found a way to compile the source then please send me a copy or info on how you did it. thanks. contact: kaber0111@hotmail.com

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John A

way to expensive for content :(

Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2001

Unless you are a complete novice to the subject, I would avoid this book. These so called 'gurus' merely give some of the ideas they have had for making procedural textures, and suggest what you could potentially do. Then they go into great detail on subjects like beveling a brick texture! Not useful. You WONT find explict texture recipes. You WONT learn how to code a texture engine (like Bryce uses for example). There is little you cant find on the web. If this book were [less expensive] I might be singing a different tune...

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