By Sebastien St-Laurent
ISBN 0-9766132-1-2
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

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...OR0 semantic on the return of the function, telling our compiler that this function returns the color to be applied to this particular pixel. Its nothing too complicated, nor is it intended to be in this chapter. This code, as-is, is not very useful. As I mentioned above, well use this code as the b...

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GetParameter Gets the handle of a top-level parameter or a structure member

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... addition to the in.uence that light can have on an object surface, you also need to consider how lights can be classi.ed themselves. Although light generally emits from a surface, such as a light bulb or the sun, we can usually consider light as either being directional or coming from a point sourc...

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... would create tremendous amounts of polygons thatwould be almost impossible to manage (at least with todays hardware). Another solution to the problem is to consider the impact of the added detail visually. Since the extra geometry details are small, they do not affect the shape of the object itself...

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...ting a distinct row of matrix data. You can address individual row-vectors of matrices by using an array style addressing. For example, you can address a single row of a matrix by using an index such as Matrix[3], which will return a vector of the correct size. You may also address individual compon...