dirty pixels corner series

books:

Jim Blinn's Corner Notation, Notation, Notation (Jim Blinn's Corner Series)

5 reviews
Jim Blinn

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

What can you say about Jim Blinn?
I am a graphics book addict, but few produce changes in my code. I passed his clipping method around to the team and we are starting to change our pipeline. We were clipping to polys in a portal engine. The new idea is to clip to a bounding rectangle FAST and let the new hardware zbuff the rough edges. His books have these sort of 'GEMS' that you might use the week you get it.

Jim Blinn Corner Dirty Pixels (Jim Blinn's Corner Series)

3 reviews
Jim Blinn

Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

This is PURE gold
This is an absolutely wonderful book. Readable, yet technical; quite funny in places, yet to the point; insightful, but no incomprehensible "head in the clouds" academic rambling (he rambles a bit, entertainingly and technically, but he explains everything so it's a pleasant experience instead of the deadly difficult reading some of the common graphics texts provide.) There are also some ...