I beg to differ about this book. I think it is pretty bad.
They seemed to have been in a big rush to get it to press.
There are numerous mistakes an I stopped reading it after a few chapters.
I was especially disappointed by the mistake for the rotation matrices in
Chapter 2.
All three of their rotation matrices X, Y and Z have the wrong signs for
some of their terms and I have emailed them about it with no response.
Since the book concentrates so highly on Applets, and keeps talking about
the numerous movies that have appeared recently using CGI, I think this
book is geared toward teenagers who think they are going to be the next ILM
or Lucas Arts CGI guru.
I know this sounds extremely pessimistic, but I actually thought about
trying to get a refund and buy the, now two year old, Java 3D API book.
At 01:51 PM 12/10/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>If you want a book to teach you Java3D, I used:
>
>"Ready-to-Run Java 3D With Plug-and-Play Code", by Kirk Brown and Daniel
>Peterson
>
>ISBN 0-471-31702-0
>
>It comes with a CDROM and isn't too bad:)
>
>Fiona
>
>
>
>*it is my madness that keeps me sane*
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:30 AM
>Subject: [JAVA3D] java3d-Books
>
>
> > Hi,
> > could someone of you tell of a good java3d book?
> >
> > thanks
> > Mohammed
> >
> >
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