Developing Games in Java™

Chapter 7. 3D Graphics

KEY TOPICS

• Types of 3D Rendering

• Don't Forget Your Math

• 3D Basics

• 3D Math

• Polygons

• 3D Transforms

• A Simple 3D Pipeline

• Camera Movement

• Solid Objects and Back-Face Removal

• Scan-Converting Polygons

• 3D Clipping

• Final Rendering Pipeline

• Summary

Once I heard someone say there will never, ever be flying cars.

Of course, I was disappointed, and I'm still getting over it. This person elaborated that the reason there will never be flying cars is not because it won't ever be technically feasible to create a flying car: Most people just can't handle the additional concept of moving a vehicle up and down instead of moving just left, right, forward, and backward. We can handle movement only in two dimensions (not counting hills and valleys because we ...