3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

About this book

Supported with code examples and the authors real-world experience this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind. The content is also useful for general graphics and games especially planet and massive-world engines. With pragmatic advice throughout it is essential reading for practitioners researchers and hobbyists in these areas and can be used as a text for a special topics course in computer graphics. Topics covered include: Rendering globes planet-sized terrain and vector data Multithread resource management Out-of-core algorithms Shader-based renderer design