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CG
In the last few years I've had the pleasure of contributing to two books on 3D Studio Max with Jon Bell and other friends. I contributed 3 chapters in both books dealing with lighting, natural material creation and ray tracing. With the advent of newer rendering technology some of this material is becoming obsolete but I am looking forward to creating some online resources to cover these exciting new techniques.
3D Studio Max R2.5 f/x by Jon A. Bell
3D
Studio MAX R3 f/x and design by Jon A. Bell
The
Renderman Companion - Steve Upstill
Advanced
RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures
- Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz
Digital
Lighting & Rendering - Jeremy Birn
The
Art and Science of Digital Compositing -
Ron Brinkmann
Principles
of Digital Image Synthesis - Andrew S. Glassner
Andrew
Glassner's Notebook : Recreational Computer Graphics
Jim
Blinn's Corner : Dirty Pixels
Jim
Blinn's Corner : A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline
Computer
Graphics : Principles and Practice - James D.
Foley, Andries van Dam
Advanced
Animation and Rendering Techniques : Theory and Practice - Alan
H. Watt
Color and Light
Color
in Nature : A Visual and Scientific Exploration -
Penelope A. Farrant
Color
and Light in Nature - David K. Lynch, William
Livingston
Surface and Patterns In Nature
The
Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature - Philip Ball
On
the Surface of Things - Felice Frankel
By
Nature's Design - William Neill
Journeys
in Microspace : The Art of the Scanning Electron Microscope - Dee
Breger
Magnifications
: Photography With the Scanning Electron Microscope - David Scharf
Surface and Patterns In CG
The
Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells - Hans Meinhardt
Texturing
and Modeling - David S. Ebert
Morphology and Biomechanics
Life's
Devices - Steven Vogel
Cats'
Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People - Steven
Vogel
Vital
Circuits : On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
- Steven Vogel
The
Simple Science of Flight : From Insects to Jumbo Jets - Henk Tennekes
Exploring
Biomechanics : Animals in Motion - R. McNeill Alexander
Design and Structure
Lightness
- Ed van Hinte, Adriaan Beukers
Structure
in Nature Is a Strategy for Design - Peter Pearce
Robotics
Robo
Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species - Peter Menzel
Mobile
Robots : Inspiration to Implementation - Joseph L. Jones
Mathematics, Computers, Complexity and Other Fun Stuff
Flatland
: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
In
the Beginning...Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
Polyhedra
Primer - Peter. Pearce
Chaos
: Making a New Science - James Gleick
The
Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without
Design - Richard Dawkins
Complexity:
the Emerging Science At the Edge of Order and Chaos - M. Mitchell
Waldrop
The
Emperor's New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- Roger Penrose
Artists
CG Software
