Hey- Just got a cup of coffee and saw my last posting. That final joke was supposed to be...get your wallets out! Oh well, my wife tells me it wasn't very funny anyway. For those of you who keep track that's at least two days in a row for me.
Anyway. I was wondering about the prospects of having an on-line subscription book "thingie" about the Java Media APIs. I might pay actual money to subscribe to a web site where I could get documented code, tutorials...you know the things we all do for free with j3d.org. But in this case, guys like Justin, Selman, Yazel, and others who would help but have bills to pay--could get just a little change. What would be cool for me is if we could use the Media APIs to describe ...the Media APIs. That would include multicasting or whatever far out things are going on. Classes could be linked, etc, As we build the journal, we could describe the process. Obviously, we would not be working against j3d.org but obviously in conjunction. Yes. Even I can see the many reasons why it won't work but remember you are talking to the guy who back in the 80's launched "the Amway of headhunting". Maybe we could interest some friends in the publishing business to do it. This also seems compatible with Java Media's success so Sun, of course, would be compelled to back us... Feel free to criticize this idea--you can probably save me from myself--it generally raises the question of on-line publishing and whether that's a viable enterprise. If you can't do something like that in Java Media--then it seems like it can't be done. Back to my day job- -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Terrazas Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D] Forthcoming book Java Media APIs Hi- I wanted to let everyone know about my "ever" forthcoming book, Java Media APIs from SAMS/MacMillan. The title is Java Media APIs: Cross-platform Imaging, Media and Visualization. I have two co-authors, Dr. John Ostuni from NIH and Dr. Mike "The Spike" Barlow from the Australian Defence Force Academy. Yes, he really is known as Spike. The book covers JAI, Java 2D, JMF and Java 3D and will be about 800 pages. The people at SAMS are very determined so there is no question the book will be out this spring. Regarding Java 3D. There is an introduction to 3D, a long chapter on content creation, a chapter on Behaviors and user interaction and a chapter on the view model. In one final chapter, we cover integration across the APIs with a few examples and a lot of conceptual discussion (what we psychologists like to call b.s.). The truth of the matter is that even though we did a good job of marketing ourselves as experts, we learned a lot by doing this book. The book is written more from the perspective people whose primary function is not programming and software development but who end up having to write and use a lot of code anyway. You can all prepare for the release by getting your credits ready! Alex =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
