Gabriel Gambetta - Computer Graphics from Scratch: A Programmers Introduction to 3D Rendering

A Programmers Introduction to 3D Rendering

by Gabriel Gambetta

San Francisco

COMPUTER GRAPHICS FROM SCRATCH. Copyright 2021 by Gabriel Gambetta

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ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0076-1 (print)

ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0077-8 (ebook)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gambetta, Gabriel, 1980- author.
Title: Computer graphics from scratch : a programmers introduction to 3D rendering / Gabriel Gambetta.
Description: San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2021] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020056364 (print) | LCCN 2020056365 (ebook) | ISBN
9781718500761 (print) | ISBN 9781718500778 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Computer graphics.
Classification: LCC T385 .G3524 2021 (print) | LCC T385 (ebook) | DDC
006.6dc23
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To my dad (19472007), architect and self-taught programmer, who got me started on this path.

My dad, my two-and-a-half-year-old self, and the ZX81.

My earliest documented program ever, written at six-and-a-half years old, drew some lines on the screen of my ZX Spectrum+.