This low-cost package includes all the tools needed to create eye-popping three-dimensional graphics, type, and animation--so readers can make flying logos, architectural renderings, photorealistic "virtual" worlds, or any imaginable 3D image. The enclosed disks contain the powerful animation software program, 3D Workshop, along with dozens of 3D graphics.

This book/disk package teaches anyone with an IBM PC or compatible how to create 3-D photorealistic images using the powerful, updated ray tracing program POV Ray 2.0 (included). This new edition contains detailed explanations of all the improvements and additions to version 2.0 of POV-Ray, plus an extended reference section.

3D Madness! takes advantage of the growing interest in this area of computer graphics. 3D Madness! includes lots of tips, tricks, and traps as well as a Top 100 Graphics Techniques featured in the text and referenced in a jump table on the inside front cover. The CD-ROM is filled with 3D software. The disk contains a subset of the material on the CD-ROM.

Thanks to Virtual Reality Modeling Language, users can now do more than jump to web pages--they can jump inside them. This hands-on tutorial gives users detailed guidance on how to program with VRML and how to create 3-D worlds with 3-D software and convert them to VRML. The CD-ROM contains software, objects, textures, WebFX VRML browser, conversion software, and more.

Extensively updated and expanded to reach a wide audience hungry for information in the far-reaching field of multimedia, this new edition includes more than 20 chapters on Netscape Communications, multimedia on the Internet, the WWW, HTML and Java.