All the programs here are ones I’ve run on machines I have (except the ones in HP 2000 BASIC, which have been extracted from library tapes). They are not scanned/OCRed listings, nor merely re-typed from books or magazines. They’ve been tested, and they work.

If you want to run these programs under some dialect of BASIC other than the one they’re written in, you might need to make a few changes. For example, some versions have a RANDOMIZE command, which restarts the pseudo-random number generator with a “random” value; some have no exact equivalent, but can use RND() with a negative number (to reseed the generator with your number); still others have no equivalent. In some versions, RND() with a positive integer generates a pseudo-random number between zero and the number you give; in others the result is always between zero and one; in some versions you can repeat the last pseudo-random number by asking for RND(0).
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” Without geometry, we would find lighting, shadows, and reflections quite uninteresting. Why? Because raising the complexity of the underlying geometry also raises the quality of the pixel. Thus the theme for this part of the book could best be described as “complexity,” because all its techniques use the GPU to enhance the complexity of the scene in ways that previously required CPU intervention. Most of these approaches are made possible by the recent advances in graphics hardware exposed by DirectX 10, with capabilities like the geometry shader, stream out, and buffer fetches.Rendering particular objects such as terrain, characters, and trees is extremely important, but no section on geometry rendering would be complete without a discussion of more-generic techniques like surface rendering.
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This unique and highly-anticipated book was commissioned by Premier Press (now Course Technology PTR) and completed but not released due to legal issues brought up by Nintendo. As a result, the e-book edition is available here, exclusively, for free. You may download and read the book on your PC (or mobile device) using Acrobat Reader, or you may print it out, complete with the original front and back cover (double-sided printing looks best). Each PDF has been compressed to save bandwidth.
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