Written by an expert in the game industry, Christer Ericson's new book is a comprehensive guide to the components of efficient real-time collision detection systems. The book provides the tools and know-how needed to implement industrial-strength collision detection for the highly detailed dynamic environments of applications such as 3D games, virtual reality applications, and physical simulators. Of the many topics covered, a key focus is on spatial and object partitioning through a wide variety of grids, trees, and sorting methods. The author also presents a large collection of intersection and distance tests for both simple and complex geometric shapes. Sections on vector and matrix algebra provide the background for advanced topics such as Voronoi regions, Minkowski sums, and linear and quadratic programming. Of utmost importance to programmers but rarely discussed in this much detail in other books are the chapters covering numerical and geometric robustness, both essential topics for collision detection systems. Also unique are the chapters discussing how graphics hardware can assist in collision detection computations and on advanced optimization for modern computer architectures. All in all, this comprehensive book will become the industry standard for years to come.

A major revision of the international bestseller on game programming! Graphics hardware has evolved enormously in the last decade. Hardware can now be directly controlled through techniques such as shader programming, which requires an entirely new thought process of a programmer. 3D Game Engine Design, Second Edition shows step-by-step how to make a shader-based graphics engine and how to tame the new technology. Much new material has been added, including more than twice the coverage of the essential techniques of scene graph management, as well as new methods for managing memory usage in the new generation of game consoles and portable game players. There are expanded discussions of collision detection, collision avoidance, and physics - all challenging subjects for developers.

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《WINDOWS游戏编程大师技巧》(第2版）介绍了在Windows环境下进行游戏编程所需用到的各方面知识，作者是著名的游戏开发大师Andrè LaMothe，他的每一本作品基本上都被视为游戏编程书籍的镇山之作。本书第一版的中文版自面市以来获得了广泛好评，持续热销，多次重印。此次修订在多方面更新了第一版中的内容，并且清除了拼写和技术错误，使用DirectX的最新版本来配合编译本书所带的程序代码，加入了大量新内容，例如关于16 位RGB 高彩模式的更多细节及众多新增的解释，还有一个新章节专门讨论文本解析（text parsing）。总之，这是《Windows游戏编程大师技巧》的一个更加清楚、更加完全的版本。