Still * Free * & available: --------------------------- The Souce Code for the Examples, Chapter 1 & 13:
http://www.manning.com/selman/chap01.pdf http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?project=selman&filename=source.html Ben Moxon wrote: | I would never have bought the book if | I hadn't found it online | and realised how useful it was... | They're going with a 1/2 price e-book on-line instead. I did like the idea of free online books though, buying the book is better is better and cheaper then trying to print it out yourself anyway. | ebook Edition available now for | purchase and immediate download. | Only $24.97 -- 50% off the book price! | http://www.manning.com/selman/ Java3d with VRML: Selman's Picking Demo & Sun Fly Through Demo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/sc_vrml_picking_with_java3d.jpg
> anyone have the new url... :/) > Yes: ---- http://www.manning.com/selman/index.html http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?project=selman&filename=source.html http://www.manning.com/selman/chap01.pdf http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?project=selman&filename=chapters.html Selman's whole books was on-line as standard web pages but it was removed though the __ source code __ examples are still available for free download alone with two sample chapters ( #1 & 13: Intro & Behavoiors ). ... A great way to get started with Java3d is using the VRML and the Sun VRML Loaders ... Selman's book has two examples of this in his book which you can see on-line including the interactive mouse Picking Demo and the Sun Fly Through Demo which is shown in the first chapter of his book which is available in PDF, and you can see examples of both the Sun Fly Through Demo and Selman's VRML display with mouse Picking on the "games with java3d" web page below which has links to the manning site and the Sun Demo: Java3d Loading & Rendering VRML ( Fly Through & Pick ) ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.manning.com/selman/chap01.pdf http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/games_with_java3d.html Here you can see illustrations of Java3d in action by Nasa, Me, and others including a VRML animation of our solar system done in VRML animated with Shout3d Java 1.1 engine, and the VRML animation works with Java3d with the Sun VRML Loaders both in a web page and as a stand alone application. http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/terrain_rendering.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/shout3d/models/planetary_earth_moon.wrl http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/movpics/mgs_vrml/MGS_deploy.wrl http://mars.sgi.com/worlds/rover_complex.wrl -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard"
Disclaimers: I don't own, represent, have stock in, or have a finacial intereset in this book ... and it's author doesn't even like me : ^ ( I do like and use animate VRML with Java3d using the Sun VRML Loaders and animate VRML with Java without Java3d also. -- Paul =========================================================================== 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".
