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Mobile 3D Graphics


by Alessio Malizia

List Price: $74.95
Price: $60.14
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Sales Rank: 1831862
Studio: Springer
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 162
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
Publisher: Springer


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description

While advanced 3D graphics techniques are well understood and supported by industry standards, this is less true in the emerging mobile applications and games market. This book redresses this imbalance, providing an in-depth look at the new OpenGL ES (The Standard for Embedded Accelerated 3D Graphics), and shows what these new embedded systems graphics libraries can provide for 3D graphics and games developers.

The book teaches fundamental 3D mobile graphics programming with standard APIs, and covers the basic and advanced application programme interfaces behind the major wireless and mobile devices supporting 3D graphics applications. Includes: - a comprehensive explanation of 3D mobile graphics programming; -an extensive range of code samples in both C and Java; - combines 3D and 2D mobile graphics methods; - covers recent advances in mobile computer graphics techniques and applications.

An excellent reference source for advanced undergraduates/postgraduates, and mobile application and games developers.



CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 3 reviews)

Not worth the money  
This book is really disappointing. I was looking forward reading this book since there isn't much printed material on this topic. The book is written badly, does not go into depth at all and the bad layout is a shame for a springer book. With the extremely high price for such a short book (170 pages in Springer format) I can not recommend it to anyone. Hopefully there will be something better on this topic soon.
January 31, 2007

Not useful  
This book is really, really and I mean really slim. Taking away the introduction, general considerations etc etc there really isn't much beef left. Not step-to-step and ample enough to be a real introduction and tutorial, and too basic (and still too slim) to be of any help to the already advanced programmer. The last drop is the outrageous price. I think the author would do well to write a real, useful, detailed, tutorial-like book with opengl-es code in Java and in C, the market is quite hungry for it.
January 18, 2007

very constricted environment  
The book basically teaches a standard course on how to code 3d graphics, using OpenGL as the programming language, and the ES variant. Ideally, you have already done 3d programming, but in an environment relatively unconstrained. Like a desktop computer, that has ample screen size, memory and disk.

The problem dealt with in the book is how to code graphics effectively on something like the screen of a cellphone. Much smaller than the PC's screen. Probably still in colour, these days, at least. And with a slower CPU and less memory. Unsurprisingly, coding can seem really awkward. But one virtue is that the book forces you to be far more efficient in your use of resources for the mobile device. On the desktop, things can be very slack.

Malizia has wisely given examples in both C and Java. For the cellphone, Java has a strong presence, if only because the cellphone makers see Java as a way to stay independent of Microsoft.
October 13, 2006


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