3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

Patrick Cozzi is a senior software developer on the 3D team at Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI). He is a contributor to SIGGRAPH and the Game Engine Gems series. Before joining AGI, he worked on storage systems in IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program at the Almaden Research Lab, interned with IBM’s z/VM operating system team, and interned with the chipset validation group at Intel. He earned a master’s degree in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. Kevin Ring is the lead architect of AGI Components at Analytical Graphics, Inc. In his software development career, he has worked on a wide range of software systems, from class libraries to web applications to 3D game engines to interplanetary spacecraft trajectory design systems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Introduction. FUNDAMENTALS: Math Foundations. Renderer Design. Globe Rendering. PRECISION: Vertex Transform Precision. Depth Buffer Precision. VECTOR DATA: Vector Data and Polylines. Polygons. Billboards. Exploiting Parallelism in Resource Preparation. TERRAIN: Terrain Basics. Massive Terrain Rendering. Geometry Clipmapping. Chunked LOD. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.