GPU Pro(2010)

The GPU Pro: Advanced Rendering Techniques book series covers ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can solve many of your daily graphics-programming challenges. The first book in the series wouldn’t have been possible without the help of many people. First of all I would like to thank the section editors for the fantastic job they did. The work of Wessam Bahnassi, Sebastien St. Laurent, NatalyaTatarchuk,CarstenDachsbacher,MatthiasWloka, ChristopherOat, and Sam Martin ensuresthat the qualityof the seriesstands up to the expectations of ourreaders. ThegreatcoverscreenshotsweretakenfromCall of Juarez: Bound in Blood. I would like to thank Techland for allowingus to use those shots. You will also find a postmortem of this game in the book. The team at A K Peters made the whole project happen. I want to thank Alice and Klaus Peters, Charlotte Henderson, andthe wholeproductionteam, whotookthe articlesandmadethem into a book. Special thanks go out to our families and friends, who spent many evenings and weekends during the long book production cycle without us. I hope you have as much fun reading the book as we had creating it. —Wolfgang Engel