WebGPU Voxel Terrains: Create Volumetric Landscapes Using Compute Shaders Learn how to create stunning voxel terrains for your web applications with this concise guide. This book covers the entire process of voxel terrain creation, from the basics of marching cubes to advanced techniques like crafting voxel volcanoes. With practical code examples, you'll have hands-on guidance throughout. Explore real-time voxel terrain creation with WebGPU and compute shaders. By reading and practicing with the included examples, you'll gain a deep understanding and the ability to implement these techniques in your own projects. Discover practical projects to solidify your skills in voxel terrain generation. This book is suitable for web developers, game developers, and anyone interested in procedural voxel terrain creation.

Are you ready to take your web graphics to the next level? Look no further than "WebGPU by Examples". This comprehensive guide equips you with all the tools you need to create stunning 3D graphics in your web applications with the help of GPU acceleration. With this book, you will discover how to design an array of 3D graphics, from basic shapes like cubes, spheres, cylinders, and tori to intricate 3D graphics like wireframes, simple and parametric surfaces, supershapes, implicit surfaces, procedural terrains, volcanoes, Minecraft, voxel terrains, text rendering, and complex function visualization, as well as particle systems made using compute shaders. The author has simplified the learning process by breaking down the concepts of WebGPU, the cutting-edge graphics API for the Web, so even those with minimal experience can grasp the fundamentals of advanced graphics development. This book includes: - Introduce a starter template for graphics programming with WebGPU. - Create basic 3D shapes like cube, sphere, cylinder, torus, etc. - Design intricate 3D surface graphics such as wireframes, simple and parametric 3D surfaces, and procedural terrains. - Simulate light and shadow using different models, including point, directional, and spot light. - Implement physical-based rendering lighting methods to create realistic graphics. - Apply colormap and texture techniques to 3D surfaces. - Generate 3D surfaces and super shapes using compute shaders for improving performance. - Construct marching cubes for generating 3D implicit surfaces, metaballs, and voxel terrains. - Visualize complex functions using 3D plots and domain coloring. - Create particle systems for 3D graphics applications. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this book is the ideal resource to help you design a wide range of graphics applications in WebGPU. So, are you ready to explore next-generation web graphics and compute API? Start your journey with "WebGPU by Examples" today!

The creation of ever more realistic 3-D images is central to the development of computer graphics. The ray tracing technique has become one of the most popular and powerful means by which photo-realistic images can now be created. The simplicity, elegance and ease of implementation makes ray tracing an essential part of understanding and exploiting state-of-the-art computer graphics.An Introduction to Ray Tracing develops from fundamental principles to advanced applications, providing "how-to" procedures as well as a detailed understanding of the scientific foundations of ray tracing. It is also richly illustrated with four-color and black-and-white plates. This is a book which will be welcomed by all concerned with modern computer graphics, image processing, and computer-aided design. - Provides practical "how-to" information - Contains high quality color plates of images created using ray tracing techniques - Progresses from a basic understanding to the advanced science and application of ray tracing

Printed in full color. Android is booming like never before, with millions of devices shipping every day. It's never been a better time to learn how to create your own 3D games and live wallpaper for Android. You'll find out all about shaders and the OpenGL pipeline, and discover the power of OpenGL ES 2.0, which is much more feature-rich than its predecessor. If you can program in Java and you have a creative vision that you'd like to share with the world, then this is the book for you. This book will teach you everything you need to know to create compelling graphics on Android. You'll learn the basics of OpenGL by building a simple game of air hockey, and along the way, you'll see how to initialize OpenGL and program the graphics pipeline using shaders. Each lesson builds upon the one before it, as you add colors, shading, 3D projections, touch interaction, and more. Then, you'll find out how to turn your idea into a live wallpaper that can run on the home screen. You'll learn about more advanced effects involving particles, lighting models, and the depth buffer. You'll understand what to look for when debugging your program, and what to watch out for when deploying to the market. OpenGL can be somewhat of a dark art to the uninitiated. As you read this book, you'll learn each new concept from first principles. You won't just learn about a feature; you'll also understand how it works, and why it works the way it does. Everything you learn is forward-compatible with the just-released OpenGL ES 3, and you can even apply these techniques to other platforms, such as iOS or HTML5 WebGL.

This is the first book written on using Blender (an open-source visualization suite widely used in the entertainment and gaming industries) for scientific visualization. It is a practical and interesting introduction to Blender for understanding key parts of 3D rendering that pertain to the sciences via step-by-step guided tutorials. Any time you see an awesome science animation in the news, you will now know how to develop exciting visualizations and animations with your own data. 3D Scientific Visualization with Blender takes you through an understanding of 3D graphics and modeling for different visualization scenarios in the physical sciences. This includes guides and tutorials for: understanding and manipulating the interface; generating 3D models; understanding lighting, animation, and camera control; and scripting data import with the Python API. The agility of Blender and its well organized Python API make it an exciting and unique visualization suite every modern scientific/engineering workbench should include. Blender provides multiple scientific visualizations including: solid models/surfaces/rigid body simulations; data cubes/transparent/translucent rendering; 3D catalogs; N-body simulations; soft body simulations; surface/terrain maps; and phenomenological models. The possibilities for generating visualizations are considerable via this ever growing software package replete with a vast community of users providing support and ideas.

This book provides comprehensive details of developing ultra-modern, responsive single-page applications (SPA) for quantitative finance using ASP.NET Core and Angular. It pays special attention to create distributed web SPA applications and reusable libraries that can be directly used to solve real-world problems in quantitative finance. The book contains: Overview of ASP.NET Core and Angular, which is necessary to create SPA for quantitative finance. Step-by-step approaches to create a variety of Angular compatible real-time stock charts and technical indicators using ECharts and TA-Lib. Introduction to access market data from online data sources using .NET Web API and Angular service, including EOD, intraday, real-time stock quotes, interest rates. Detailed procedures to price equity options and fixed-income instruments using QuantLib, including European/American/Barrier/Bermudan options, bonds, CDS, as well as related topics such as cash flows, term structures, yield curves, discount factors, and zero-coupon bonds. Detailed explanation to linear analysis and machine learning in finance, which covers linear regression, PCA, KNN, SVM, and neural networks. In-depth descriptions of trading strategy development and back-testing for crossover and z-score based trading signals.

Programmable graphics shaders, programs that can be downloaded to a graphics processor (GPU) to carry out operations outside the fixed-function pipeline of earlier standards, have become a key feature of computer graphics. This book is designed to open computer graphics shader programming to the student, whether in a traditional class or on their own. It is intended to complement texts based on fixed-function graphics APIs, specifically OpenGL. It introduces shader programming in general, and specifically the GLSL shader language. It also introduces a flexible, easy-to-use tool, glman, that helps you develop, test, and tune shaders outside an application that would use them.