Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!esosun!cogen!celerity!billd
From: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Stereoscopic 3D Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <238@celerity.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 05:07:00 GMT
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Reply-To: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
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In article <413@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes:
>     Well, this *may* help.  There is a book out there by Bruce
>Artwick, who developed the famous SubLogic "Flight Simulator"
>including the original graphics routines.  Unfortunately, I do not
>know the name of the book or the publisher, as it was one of those
>books that I was going to buy, but did not have the money to spend or
>the time to invest reading it (they are sooo many good books out there
>to read! ;-)
>					.oO Chris Oo.
>Christopher Lishka                 ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
>Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
>Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp

The Artiwick book is very good but it's a little weird to follow, er, find
things in it.  It has lots of neat stuff.  I have the first edition from
1984.  I believe that there is a new edition out.  In any case it's called:

	_Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics_
	by Bruce A Artwick
	ISBN 0-13-039322-3
	T385.A77 1984
	Prentice Hall

It doesn't have a section on "airplane physics" (at least I can't find it :-)
so I don't think it will help much on that.  It should be able to help
on hidden surface removal and other animation type problems.
I personally like the book for it's discussion of certain aspects of
computational geometry.

	--Bill Davidson

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