INDEX

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxiii
4. INTRODUCTION xxv
5. Part 1. MATHEMATICAL PREREQUISITES
6. Chapter 1. VECTOR ALGEBRA 1
7. Chapter 2. MATRIX ALGEBRA 37
8. Chapter 3. TRANSFORMATIONS 59
9. Part 2. DIRECT3D FOUNDATIONS
10. Chapter 4. DIRECT3D INITIALIZATION 87
11. Chapter 5. THE RENDERING PIPELINE 159
12. Chapter 6. DRAWING IN DIRECT3D 203
13. Chapter 7. DRAWING IN DIRECT3D PART II 265
14. Chapter 8. LIGHTING 315
15. Chapter 9. TEXTURING 359
16. Chapter 10. BLENDING 397
17. Chapter 11. STENCILING 419
18. Chapter 12. THE GEOMETRY SHADER 445
19. Chapter 13. THE COMPUTE SHADER 469
20. Chapter 14. THE TESSELLATION STAGES 513
21. Part 3. Topics
22. Chapter 15. BUILDING A FIRST PERSON CAMERA AND DYNAMIC INDEXING 537
23. Chapter 16. INSTANCING AND FRUSTUM CULLING 557
24. Chapter 17. PICKING 583
25. Chapter 18. CUBE MAPPING 597
26. Chapter 19. NORMAL MAPPING 627
27. Chapter 20. SHADOW MAPPING 643
28. Chapter 21. AMBIENT OCCLUSION 675
29. Chapter 22. QUATERNIONS 697
30. Chapter 23. CHARACTER ANIMATION 727
31. Appendix A. INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS PROGRAMMING 753
32. Appendix B. HIGH LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGE REFERENCE 773
33. Appendix C. SOME ANALYTIC GEOMETRY 789
34. Appendix D. SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED EXERCISES 801
35. Appendix E. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING 803
36. INDEX 809