Luna Frank: Frank Luna has been programming interactive 3D graphics with DirectX for more than fifteen years. He is the author of three bestselling books on DirectX and has worked in 3D medical visualization, 3D architectural design software, and gaming. He holds a BS in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine.
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Part I 1) Mathematical Prerequisites 2) Vector Algebra 3) Matrix Algebra 4) Transformations
Part II 5) Direct3D Foundations 6) Direct3D Initialization 7) The Rendering Pipeline 8) Lighting 9) Texturing 10) Blending 11) Stenciling 12) The Geometry Shader 13) The Hardware Tessellation Shaders 14) The Compute Shader
Part III 15) Direct3D Topics 16) Ambient Occlusion 17) Cube Mapping 18) Normal Mapping 19) Shadow Mapping 20) Cascaded Shadow Maps 21) Meshes 22) Quaternions 23) Character Animation 24) Picking 25) Volume Rendering 26) Terrain Rendering 27) Atmospheric Scattering and Cloud Rendering 28) Particle Systems and Stream Output
Appendices 1) Introduction to Windows Programming 2) High-Level Shading Language Reference 3) Some Analytic Geometry
