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| Author: Fletcher Dunn
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 50513
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 476
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 1556229119
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6
EAN: 9781556229114
ASIN: 1556229119
Publication Date: June 25, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Math book....period January 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The greatest problem for a lot of us that want to be great programmers is that we're terrible mathematicians. And the greatest benefit of this book is that it explains it in a way anyone can understand it! I absolutely love this book. Before you even start to think about DirectX, OpenGL, whatever - you should read this book COVER TO COVER.
 Gets you up to speed very quickly. December 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must read for anyone wanting to jump into 3D graphics programming, the book is full of content, full of useful source code, and very accessible to the average reader.
The only gripe I would have is that there is a steep learning curve a few chapters in, once you finish writing the vector class the content in the next chapter is much harder. It's not impossible to pick up, but there is a definite difference in difficulty.
READ THIS December 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hi, i am a college student at Bozeman, Montana, MSU. If you do not know, the computer science course in Montana (of all places) is in the highest Tier in the nation. (That means our school competes with MIT). I can tell that this book is great. Sure there are some funny things about it, but for the most part, everything is good in this book. I really like how much stuff is covered on matrices. Not everyone gets to take Matrix Theory (Linear algebra) so this book does a decent job of explaining matrices. And especially explaining Quaternions.
 Not good November 26, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Didnt learned too much from it, the explanations are very briefly specially in some chapters
For example, in the Collision Detection chapter (aka Geometric Tests, Chapter 13), he just throws the equations and miss important points to the complete understanding of the solution for the problem.
For example, in the explanation of Intersection of Ray and Plane, he just says that the parametric ray is p(t) = Po + td and the plane equation is p . n = d, then you need to solve (Po + td) . n = d, and the explanation is just it
He doesnt explain why a plane is defined by p . n = d, and why the dot product of all points in the plane and the plane normal will give the same number, and doesnt even explaning the meaning of that number (which is the plane distance from the origin along the normal, or in other words, the closest point in a plane to the origin)
All the others geometric tests explanations are made in the same way, he just throw the equations and some picture and you have to find out yourself. I was only able to understand the chapter cause i already had a good understanding of that subject, but for that guy with zero knowledge in the subject who bought this book for the first time imagining it would be a good introduction for geometric tests, he will have a hard time
Others chapters are the same way too, for example, i was hoping to understand barycentric coordinates from this book, but as always, he just throw you some equations
Maybe i misjudge the book, but thats my impression so far
If money is not your problem, buy it, but dont expect it to be your ultimate source for your doubts, you will probably have to look in another sources
great book for 3d math October 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
great book for learning 3D math, probably the best on 3D math. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because author rushed through some of the topics. Overall, great book.
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