Flights of Fantasy, Programming 3-d Video Games in C++

Christopher Lampton

Waite Group

1993

1-878739-18-2

$34.95 (US)

This was my first book dealing with 3d programming topics. Although this isn't as cool a book as Cutting Edge, it does a very detailed breakdown of a simple graphics engine. The final engine ends up only being composed of solid filled polygons. The real honey about this book is that it uses some really effective pictures to illistrate what is being talked about. It also has the pace of a drewling reject, which i found particularly helpful :) If you don't want to dive completely in high end 3d graphics techniques, then this is the book for you!