by Dennis Cronin
Three-dimensional illusions are cropping up in everything from the funny papers to magazine advertisements. Dennis examines how the illusion works, then presents and implements an algorithm that lets you generate your own images.
by Mark Seminatore
Ray casting is a real-time, 3-D rendering technique that's central to many computer-graphics applications. Mark discusses the theory behind ray casting and presents a ray-casting engine he calls "Raycastr."
by Lee Daniel Crocker
PNG, originally designed as an alternative to GIF, is a graphics file format that's simple, portable, and available free-of-charge in source-code form for reading and writing.
by Nathan Dwyer
Binary space partitioning (BSP) trees are at the heart of the high-speed, 3-D display engines that are becoming common on PC systems. Nathan examines the BSP data structure and presents a C++ system that uses it.
by Craig A. Lindley
In this two-part article, Craig presents an image-compression technique that uses the same algorithms as JPEG. He then encapsulates the technique in a set of C++ classes.
by Nick Tredennick
Programmable-logic devices (PLDs) may change the way embedded systems are designed and built. Nick examines the transition from microprocessors to PLDs and speculates on what this means to designers.
by Peter D. Varhol
Peter presents one way of evaluating network traffic and routing packets without a large-scale computer network.
by Brad Haakenson
The recently released VESA BIOS Extension 2.0 specification extends the common, device-independent interface for accessing high-resolution/color-depth video modes on graphics controllers.
by Ron Fosner
OpenGL, a computer-industry standard based on SGI's graphics library, lets you create some amazingly complicated and realistic scenes on Windows-based PCs.
by Michael Swaine
Underscoring that everyone is getting on the Net, Michael discusses the Macintosh, WWW, and Mac WWW software.
by Al Stevens
Al continues his presentation of IMail, an application that calls an Internet host and collects and sends e-mail. This month, he examines the two C++ classes that encapsulate the serial port and the modem.
edited by Bruce Schneier
Dean Clark addresses the problem of "color quantization" and describes how the popularity algorithm provides one method of mapping colors to images.
by Lou Grinzo and Steve Gallagher
Lou takes a look at Dave Edson's Dave's Book of Top Ten Lists for Great Windows Programming, while Steve examines C++ Class Library: Power GUI Programming with CSet++, by Kevin Leong, William Law, Robert Lowe, Hiroshi Tsuji, and Bruce Olson.
by Jonathan Erickson
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by Michael Swaine
by Monica E. Berg
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