Olano M., Hart J., Heidrich W., McCool M. Real-time shading

Natick, Mass. : AK Peters, 2002. — 346 p. — ISBN10: 1568811802, ISBN13: 9781568811802This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on interactive graphics hardware. These developments are important for areas such as game development, product design, and scientific visualization, among others. The authors include examples of techniques for achieving common effects efficiently in a real-time shading language ranging from full procedural shading on advanced specialized hardware to limited, yet surprisingly flexible shading on unextended OpenGL, to modern PC graphics accelerators.Fundamentals.Reflectance.
Texturing.
Procedural Shaders.
Graphics Hardware
Building Blocks for Shading.
Texture Shading.
Environment Maps for Illumination.
The Texture Atlas
High-Level Procedural Shading.
Classifying Shaders.
APST: Antialiased Parameterized Solid Texturing.
Compiling Real-Time Procedural Shaders.
RenderMan.
Pfman: Procedural Shaders on PixelFlow.
ISL: Interactive Shading Language.
RTSL: The Stanford Real-Time Shading Language.
ESMTL: The Evans & Sutherland Multitexturing Language.
OpenGL 2.0.
APIs
And Beyond.
Predicting the Present.