Houdini Pipeline - addtional specialist software like RealFlow, FumeFX

[zephyr707]

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-3rd-Alan-Watt/dp/0201398559

This was our course book for one of the 3D graphics classes I took. It's kinda heavy but I like it a lot.

thanks Erik, does it matter that it is so old? maybe there is a new edition. a lot of these books seemed geared towards programmers. i read isaac kerlow's art of 3d animation and computer effects and that was a good overview, but not in-depth enough. i can't find much in-between hardcore programming and a basic introduction... ok and sorry for making this sub-thread, i should have posted a new topic...

[Erik_JE]

thanks Erik, does it matter that it is so old? maybe there is a new edition. a lot of these books seemed geared towards programmers. i read isaac kerlow's art of 3d animation and computer effects and that was a good overview, but not in-depth enough. i can't find much in-between hardcore programming and a basic introduction... ok and sorry for making this sub-thread, i should have posted a new topic...

Don't really matter that it's old. The theory still is the same mostly. I think you should be able to find this book at a lot of libraries if you wanna browse through it before picking it up.

Table of contents for the book:

1. Mathematical fundamentals of computer graphics

2. Representation and modelling of 3D objects (1)

3. Representation and modelling of 3D objects (2)

4. Representation and rendering

5. The graphics pipeline (1) geometric operations

6. The graphics pipeline (2) rendering or algorithmic processes

7. Simulating light-object interaction: local reflection models

8. Mapping techniques

9. Geometric shadows

10. Global illumination

11. The radiosity method

12. Ray tracing strategies

13. Volume rendering

14. Anti-aliasing theory and practice

15. Colour and computer graphics

16. Image-based rendering and photo-modelling

17. Computer animation

18. Comparative image study

Have to agree on that there is a gap of books between basic and advanced books. Don't know why that is.