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GPU Gems 3 - Now Online

Beginning this week we'll be releasing the full text of GPU Gems 3 on the NVIDIA website -- Seven chapters to start, and then three chapters per week between now and GDC 2009. Click here to begin reading the first section of GPU Gems 3, Geometry.

Chapters this week:

• Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU by Ryan Geiss (NVIDIA)
• Animated Crowd Rendering by Bryan Dudash (NVIDIA)
• DirectX 10 Blend Shapes: Breaking the Limits by Tristan Lorach (NVIDIA)
• Next-Generation SpeedTree Rendering by Alexander Kharlamov, Iain Cantlay, Yury Stepanenko (NVIDIA)
• Generic Adaptive Mesh Refinement by Tamy Boubekeur, Christophe Schlick (LaBRI–INRIA, University of Bordeaux)
• GPU-Generated Procedural Wind Animations for Trees by Renaldas Zioma (Electronic Arts/Digital Illusions CE)
• Point-Based Visualization of Metaballs on a GPU by Kees van Kooten, Gino van den Bergen (Playlogic Game Factory) & Alex Telea (Eindhoven University of Technology)