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From: cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Stereoscopic 3D Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <56@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 89 07:57:49 GMT
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Reply-To: cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
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In article <8467@edsews.EDS.COM> charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette) writes:
>Microcomputer Displays, Graphics, and Animation
>Bruce A. Artwick

  Good book, but it just scratches the surface.  It covers the basic
3D matrix math (including the little known Quaternions!), talks
about using fixed point, etc, but I am looking for database
information, polygon clipping/elimination, etc.  I've got a little
"remote control airplane" simulator up and running using shaded
polygons, which runs quite fast.  I'm looking for ways to run
faster, especially how to process the "terrain" without
examining/processing _every_ object.


  Thanks,


  John Schultz