Preface

• Who this book is for
• What this book covers
• To get the most out of this book
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• Conventions used
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1. Part 1 – Essential Tools

2. Chapter 1: Hello Graphics Window: You’re On Your Way FREE CHAPTER

• Technical requirements
• Getting Started with Python, PyCharm, and Pygame
• Creating a Basic Graphics Window
• Working with Window and Cartesian Coordinates
• Summary

3. Chapter 2: Let’s Start Drawing

• Technical requirements
• Color
• Lines
• Text
• Polygons
• Raster Images
• Summary
• Answers

4. Chapter 3: Line Plotting Pixel by Pixel

• Technical requirements
• The Naïve Way: Drawing a line with brute force
• Enter Bresenham: The improved approach
• Drawing circles the Bresenham way
• Anti-aliasing
• Summary

5. Chapter 4: Graphics and Game Engine Components

• Technical requirements
• Exploring the OpenGL Graphics Pipeline
• Drawing Models with Meshes
• Viewing the Scene with Cameras
• Projecting Pixels onto the Screen
• Understanding 3D Coordinate Systems in OpenGL
• Summary
• Answers

6. Chapter 5: Let’s Light It Up!

• Technical requirements
• Adding Lighting Effects
• Placing Textures on Meshes
• Summary
• Answers

7. Chapter 6: Updating and Drawing the Graphics Environment

• Technical requirements
• Introducing the main game loop
• Updating and drawing objects
• Measuring time
• Summary
• Answers

8. Chapter 7: Interactions with the Keyboard and Mouse for Dynamic Graphics Programs

• Technical requirements
• Working with mouse interactions
• Adding keyboard commands
• Summary
• Answers

9. Part 2 – Essential Trigonometry

10. Chapter 8: Reviewing Our Knowledge of Triangles

• Technical requirements
• Comparing similar triangles
• Working with right-angled triangles
• Calculating angles with sine, cosine, and tangent
• Summary
• Answers

11. Chapter 9: Practicing Vector Essentials

• Technical requirements
• Understanding the difference between points and vectors
• Working out a vector’s magnitude
• Exploring the relationship between angles and vectors
• Summary
• Answers

12. Chapter 10: Getting Acquainted with Lines, Rays, and Normals

• Technical requirements
• Defining lines, segments, and rays
• Using the parametric form of lines
• Calculating and displaying normals
• Summary
• Answers

13. Chapter 11: Manipulating the Light and Texture of Triangles

• Technical requirements
• Displaying Mesh Triangle Normals
• Defining polygon sides with normals
• Culling Polygons According to the Normals
• Exploring How Normals Affect Lighting
• Summary

14. Part 3 – Essential Transformations

15. Chapter 12: Mastering Affine Transformations

• Technical requirements
• Translating points in 3D
• Scaling points with x, y, and z
• Rotating points around a pivot
• Exploring transformation orders
• Shearing and reflections
• Summary
• Answers

16. Chapter 13: Understanding the Importance of Matrices

• Technical requirements
• Defining matrices
• Performing operations on matrices
• Creating matrix representations of affine transformations
• Combining transformation matrices for complex maneuvers
• Summary
• Answers

17. Chapter 14: Working with Coordinate Spaces

• Technical requirements
• Understanding OpenGL’s Matrix Stack
• Working with the Model Matrix
• Working with the View Matrix
• Working with the Projection Matrix
• Summary
• Answers

18. Chapter 15: Navigating the View Space

• Technical requirements
• Flying maneuvers
• Understanding and fixing compound rotation quirks
• Improving camera orientations
• Summary
• Answers

19. Chapter 16: Rotating with Quaternions

• Technical requirements
• Introducing quaternions
• Rotating around an arbitrary axis
• Exploring quaternion spaces
• Working with unit quaternions
• Understanding the purpose of normalization
• Summary
• Answers

20. Part 4 – Essential Rendering Techniques

21. Chapter 17: Vertex and Fragment Shading

• Technical requirements
• Understanding shaders
• Transferring processing from the CPU to the GPU
• Processing pixel by pixel
• Summary

22. Chapter 18: Customizing the Render Pipeline

• Technical requirements
• Coloring and texturing mesh faces
• Turning on the lights
• Summary
• Answers

23. Chapter 19: Rendering Visual Realism Like a Pro

• Technical requirements
• Following where light bounces
• Applying the Inverse Square Law
• Calculating Bidirectional Reflectance
• Putting it all together
• Summary

24. Index

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