Paul Martz schrieb:
Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner.
Good point about feedback. I've now posted ODT and DOC versions of the front
matter along with the PDF. I'd appreciate it if feedback was provided as a
MS Word DOC file with track changes enabled.
Thanks,
-Paul
Hi Paul,
I´ve just read it. First of all to me it sounds as if this is not the
first book you wrote. Very smooth!
As for the Math-Book: A book that covers exactly the math needed for
computer graphics is "Geometric tools for computer graphics" by P. J.
Schneider and D. H. Eberly.
Though I can recommend this book in terms of completeness and
topic-selection, it gave me a really hard time just recently because of
its many mistakes. Those mistakes tend to be corrected at the webbpage,
but who would have thought mistakes to appear at very simple formulas...
Another book that covers quite enough math (though not as its main
topic) for 3d-geometry is "Real Time Rendering" by T. Akenine-Möller and
E. Haines.
Being a mathematician I can´t really tell if those books are
comprehensive as I rather use them as a reference.
Regards,
Andreas
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Robert Osfield
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:17 PM
To: osg users
Subject: Re: [osg-users] OSG documentation / books
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the posting the progress so far. Certainly put a
smile on my face with a warm fuzzy glow seeing that an OSG
book is now truly underway ;-)
In what form would you like suggestions/corrections? Pdf
makes it easy to read, but not to correct typos. I wonder
if providing it as a ODF or Word oducment to edit but do so
with corrections in red or some other convention.
When you want an specific examples written just ping me/the
list. I won't be able to respond straight away, but small
examples generally don't too long to put together.
Also if queries about particular classes then just ask for a
explanation and I'll have a go.
Cheers
Robert.
On 11/10/06, Paul Martz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For those of you interested in reviewing drafts of the OSG
documentation, I've posted a (very) rough draft of the front matter
for the OpenSceneGraph Quick Start Guide. You can download
it from my Web page:
http://www.skew-matrix.com/OSGQSG.html
If you review it, please limit your review comments to
content only,
and gross errors of grammar. Please do not tell me to
change the font
or the margins, etc., as the current form will likely bear little
resemblance to the final form.
I use "TBD" throughout as a marker to myself for something
I'll need
to fix later. But, as you can see, in some places it's also a
solicitation for input (for example, suggested reading material).
Please help out in those areas if you can.
Thanks,
Paul Martz
Skew Matrix Software LLC
http://www.skew-matrix.com
303 859 9466
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Paul Martz
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:38 PM
To: 'osg users'
Subject: [osg-users] OSG documentation / books
Hi all --
Over the past few weeks I've been focusing my efforts on
developing concepts
for a set of developer-oriented OpenSceneGraph books. I've
posted my plans
to http://www.skew-matrix.com/OSGdocs.html.
To summarize, I have three books planned:
A Quick Start Guide, which will hopefully be complete by
early next year and
can be downloaded for free as a PDF or purchased softbound.
(If purchased,
proceeds will help support the OSG documentation effort by
paying for future
revisions).
A Programming Guide, not for free, hopefully available by late 2007.
A Reference Manual, probably derived from Doxygen output,
probably available
in 2008.
I hope to use you, the OSG community, as my technical
review team. So, as I
complete sections of the documentation, I'll make advance
copies available
free to anyone who pledges to read it in a timely fashion
and provide
feedback.
Speaking of feedback, please follow the link above and post
here with any
thoughts on the current plans.
Thanks,
Paul Martz
Skew Matrix Software LLC
http://www.skew-matrix.com
303 859 9466
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