Advanced 3D Photorealism Techniques

✍ Scribed by Bill Fleming

• Publisher: Wiley Computer Pub
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, like Bill's earlier one, deals mostly with detailing of models (geometry) only. It does not discuss materials in depth, or lighting, Global Illumination etc. So a large part of what makes scenes photrealistic is not touched upon. More importantly, his geometry detailing techniques will no doubt add a couple of zillion polygons. No discussion on that either- no scheme is presented to keep a count of polygons, or keep them within sensible limits.
Without proper lighting and materials, Bill does not really produce photorealistic results.
The description of imaginary worlds and creatures is unimaginative and tedious.
The underlying principles are noteworthy, but could be summarised in one page- which i think Bill has done: it's there somewhere on the net.