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![Visual Basic Graphics Programming 2nd Edition [Book & CD Rom]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A5S44H80L._SL160_.jpg)
Visual Basic's graphics commands are simple and easy to use, but relatively slow and limited. Considering Windows succeeded in large part because it provides a graphical interface it's strange to find the premier Windows application development tool provides such poor graphics support. Rod Stephens' book attempts to remedy this without recourse to a new language. He does what everyone does when they need to accelerate VB programs and hits the APIs. The main reason for this is to gain more speed and provide pixel level control of graphics.After a crash course in avoiding system crashes when working with APIs the rest of the book examines the various graphical operations you might want to perform and shows you how to do it as efficiently as possible. Stephens starts with lines and palettes before introducing pixel bashing, which is tricky in VB using API calls. He discusses mapping various co-ordinate systems to the basic pixel system underlying the standard VB graphics features and addresses the problems.
The bulk of the book is spent in introducing graphic editing, formatting, creation, transformation, animation and other operations. Each is described, the algorithms you need to achieve each are discussed, the API calls you need listed and sample code created. The material is far-ranging. You get everything: bar graphs, strange attractors, image sharpening, tiling, colour handling, 3D transformations, surface mapping and even ray tracing.
There are actually many similar books on graphic programming but most tend to use C or a metalanguage. Such books aren't too useful to VB programmers where an intimate knowledge of the Windows APIs is essential to implement them, so Stephens book is valuable indeed to those wanting to go beyond VB's original intentions without changing programming environments. --Steve Patient
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The OpenGL SuperBible lives up to its name: nearly 700 pages of examples, function descriptions and code snippets for the Windows-based programmer trying to get up to speed on coding OpenGL graphics.This new edition has been revised and updated to include OpenGL 1.2, which offers more features and tighter integration with hardware accelerators than any earlier version. Sections are logically broken down into graphics fundamentals and an introduction to OpenGL, the "Meat and Potatoes" of OpenGL rendering and the specifics of OpenGL programming for Windows.
Long on examples and function descriptions, the book is a bit short on pictures, colour plates and screen shots. However, the accompanying CD-ROM has all the examples used in the book, some other exciting examples of OpenGL programming (the flight simulator with the terrain generator is remarkably smooth, for example) and the OpenGL library toolkits (GLUT 3.7, MESA 3, ZLIB 1.1.3 and others). It doesn't contain, however, a searchable electronic version of the book, which would have been very valuable given its complexity. But the book is thorough, and it covers every aspect of OpenGL programming, making it a good reference for anyone who codes for graphics applications, in spite of its shortcomings. --Mike Caputo
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