Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xxvii
4. Introduction xxix
5. Part I Mathematical Prerequisites
6. Chapter 1: Vector Algebra 1
7. Chapter 2: Matrix Algebra 37
8. Chapter 3: Transformations 61
9. Part II Direct3D Foundations
10. Chapter 4: Direct3D Initialization 91
11. Chapter 5: The Rendering Pipeline 175
12. Chapter 6: Drawing in Direct3D 219
13. Chapter 7: Drawing in Direct3D Part II 291
14. Chapter 8: Lighting 339
15. Chapter 9: Texturing 389
16. Chapter 10: Blending 437
17. Chapter 11: Stenciling 459
18. Chapter 12: The Geometry Shader 485
19. Chapter 13: The Compute Shader 507
20. Chapter 14: The Tessellation Stages 553
21. Part III Topics
22. Chapter 15: Building a First Person Camera 579
23. Chapter 16: Instancing and Frustum Culling 593
24. Chapter 17: Picking 621
25. Chapter 18: Cube Mapping 641
26. Chapter 19: Normal Mapping 671
27. Chapter 20: Shadow Mapping 697
28. Chapter 21: Ambient Occlusion 733
29. Chapter 22: Quaternions 755
30. Chapter 23: Character Animation 785
31. Chapter 24: Terrain Rendering 813
32. Chapter 25: Particle Systems 845
33. Chapter 26: Amplification and Mesh Shaders 881
34. Chapter 27: Ray Tracing 909
35. Appendix A: Introduction to Windows Programming 979
36. Appendix B: High Level Shader Language Reference 1001
37. Appendix C: Some Analytic Geometry 1017
38. Appendix D: Solutions to Selected Exercises 1029
39. Bibliography and Further Reading 1031
40. Index 1037