3D Programming for Windows by Charles Petzold

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Big news for anyone who wants to create better graphics and next-generation Windows user interfaces: The legendary Charles Petzold has written a book on Windows Presentation Foundation's remarkable 3D features.

Petzold wrote Programming Windows, the classic book on Windows development. When you read him, you always know he's thought carefully about every word: He hasn't glossed over the subtleties, and unlike some authors, he does understand them. That's especially welcome here, in an arena that'll be unfamiliar to many Windows programmers.

He walks through each core 3D graphics programming technique, showing how to do it in WPF -- usually with XAML, occasionally with C#. Coverage includes transforms, animation, rotation, light, shading, textures, materials, even matrix transforms and quaternions. Petzold wraps up with several example programs that illuminate WPF 3D's surprising power. This technology will be at the heart of tomorrow's immersive Windows applications. Master it now: Read Petzold. Bill Camarda, from the August 2007 Read Only

From the Publisher

Get the practical introduction to programming 3D graphics using the Windows Presentation Foundation-straight from programming legend Charles Petzold. The Windows Presentation Foundation is a key component of .NET Framework 3.0, which is a part of Windows VistaT and available for Windows XP. With the Windows Presentation Foundation, 3D images can be displayed regardless of the video-display hardware on the user's machine. This practical guide is the ideal supplement to Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation. Focusing on developing user interface objects or simple animations, this book builds on a reader's knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation essentials to demonstrate how to effectively create 3D graphics for Windows. You get the fundamental information for using the Windows Presentation Foundation 3D application programming interface (API), as well as in-depth coverage of mesh geometries-the key technology that enables 3D graphics. Includes code samples in XAML, with additional code samples in Microsoft Visual C#r.Key Book Benefits

• Features in-depth coverage of mesh geometries-the key technology that enables 3D in the Windows Presentation Foundation

• Written by a premier Windows programmer, Charles Petzold

• Includes code examples in XAML and Visual C#

• Supplements the Windows Presentation Foundation essentials covered in Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

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