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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Getting Acquainted 1
Workshop 1: Letting Yourself Go 13
1 Beginning with 2D: A Complete Session 14
2 Direct 3D 27
3 Some Basic Functions 32
4 Combining Objects in Various Ways: The Booleans 41
Assignment: A Simple Pavilion 47
Workshop 2: Bringing a Sense of Scale 51
1 Sizing Up Your World 52
2 Restraining the Cursor 58
3 Transcending Objects: Working at Multiple Levels 67
4 Executing Transformations and Making Copies 79
5 Editing Elements 90
6 Insertions: A Convenient Alternative to Booleans 97
Assignment: An Architectural Block Model 102
Workshop 3: Personalizing Your Environment 111
1 Your Own Colors and Styles 112
2 Controlling the Displays 116
3 Working with Layers 123
4 Using Your Own Reference Planes 130
5 Having Different Views 137
6 Specifying Your Preferences 156
Assignment: An Item of Furniture 160
Workshop 4: Enhancing Your Modeling Capabilities 171
1 Going Round and Up and Down 172
2 Sweeping Your Way Through 182
3 Skinning and Lofting Your Forms 187
4 Cutting Your Sections 196
5 Moving Over Rugged Terrains 199
6 The Remaining Derivatives 204
7 Rounding, Blending, Fillets, and Draft Angles 209
8 Cultivating Attachments 217
9 Alignments, Distributions, Extensions, and Placements 223
Assignment: Site Planning for Urban Design 230
Workshop 5: Illuminating, Texturing, and Rendering Your World 237
1 Imaging 238
2 Lights Galore! 253
3 Radiosity Based Rendering 273
4 A Closer Look at Textures 280
5 Other Object Properties 293
Assignment: A Table Lamp 297
Workshop 6: Going Organic 307
1 Plain Meshes and Subdivisions 308
2 Moving, Disturbing, and Deforming Meshes 318
3 Displacing Meshes 328
4 Smooth Curves, C-Curves, and C-Meshes 336
5 Nurbz and Patches 347
6 Cutting and Gluing Freeform Objects 358
7 The Metaphysics of Metaformz 363
Assignment: A Curved Roof Structure for a Stadium 370
Workshop 7: Ending with More 381
1 Writing in 3D 382
2 The Power of Symbols 388
3 Panoramic Views and QuickTime VR 397
4 Animating Your World 402
5 Internal and External Communication 412
Assignment: 3D Graphic for Book Cover Design 420
App Brief Overview of the Drafting Module 425
Index 439

Title: formZ 4.0: 3D Modeling, Rendering, and Animation

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Item Number: 9780071425162

Publication Date: November 2003

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Anybody who is seriously developing interfaces for Kinect must read this book. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mountain of work in 3D interaction techniques that occurred years before project Natal (which later became Kinect)was even an idea to be approved or rejected on some executive's desk at Microsoft. It summarizes design recommendations for system commands, navigation techniques, and even methods of evaluation based on the body of work done by researchers in the mid-90s, when virtual reality was all the rave.

There are of course some differences between the mocap-style tracking used for these interaction techniques and the 3d mesh + skeletal tracking provided by the Kinect, so these recommendations should all be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, the book provides a great foundation and seeds for ideas that are essential for any researcher or developer designing interaction techniques, games, or user interfaces for the Kinect.

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	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Getting Acquainted	1
	Workshop 1: Letting Yourself Go	13
1	Beginning with 2D: A Complete Session	14
2	Direct 3D	27
3	Some Basic Functions	32
4	Combining Objects in Various Ways: The Booleans	41
	Assignment: A Simple Pavilion	47
	Workshop 2: Bringing a Sense of Scale	51
1	Sizing Up Your World	52
2	Restraining the Cursor	58
3	Transcending Objects: Working at Multiple Levels	67
4	Executing Transformations and Making Copies	79
5	Editing Elements	90
6	Insertions: A Convenient Alternative to Booleans	97
	Assignment: An Architectural Block Model	102
	Workshop 3: Personalizing Your Environment	111
1	Your Own Colors and Styles	112
2	Controlling the Displays	116
3	Working with Layers	123
4	Using Your Own Reference Planes	130
5	Having Different Views	137
6	Specifying Your Preferences	156
	Assignment: An Item of Furniture	160
	Workshop 4: Enhancing Your Modeling Capabilities	171
1	Going Round and Up and Down	172
2	Sweeping Your Way Through	182
3	Skinning and Lofting Your Forms	187
4	Cutting Your Sections	196
5	Moving Over Rugged Terrains	199
6	The Remaining Derivatives	204
7	Rounding, Blending, Fillets, and Draft Angles	209
8	Cultivating Attachments	217
9	Alignments, Distributions, Extensions, and Placements	223
	Assignment: Site Planning for Urban Design	230
	Workshop 5: Illuminating, Texturing, and Rendering Your World	237
1	Imaging	238
2	Lights Galore!	253
3	Radiosity Based Rendering	273
4	A Closer Look at Textures	280
5	Other Object Properties	293
	Assignment: A Table Lamp	297
	Workshop 6: Going Organic	307
1	Plain Meshes and Subdivisions	308
2	Moving, Disturbing, and Deforming Meshes	318
3	Displacing Meshes	328
4	Smooth Curves, C-Curves, and C-Meshes	336
5	Nurbz and Patches	347
6	Cutting and Gluing Freeform Objects	358
7	The Metaphysics of Metaformz	363
	Assignment: A Curved Roof Structure for a Stadium	370
	Workshop 7: Ending with More	381
1	Writing in 3D	382
2	The Power of Symbols	388
3	Panoramic Views and QuickTime VR	397
4	Animating Your World	402
5	Internal and External Communication	412
	Assignment: 3D Graphic for Book Cover Design	420
App	Brief Overview of the Drafting Module	425
	Index	439