C Programmers Can Achieve High-Speed Bit-Plane Animation Effects with New
Book

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Programmers never anticipated graphics as being as
important as they have become with the advent of multimedia, desktop
video, and virtual reality. Animation is difficult on the IBM PC because
of the absence of sprites (graphic objects that enable users to move
objects seamlessly around a screen). But now, thanks to Lightning-Fast
Animation Graphics, it just got a lot simpler.

In this book/disk package, Len Dorfman gives C programmers access to a
powerful library of C sprite management routines they can use to instantly
create high-speed bit-plane sprite motion on a PC. Step-by-step
instructions walk readers through the process of creating three types of
graphics objects found in arcade-style animation programs: sprites,
missiles, and bullets. By emulating some elements of a graphics
co-processor, this disk of C library functions allows users to more easily
animate these graphics objects for video games and special effects.

Readers will also find out how to seamlessly integrate the bit-plane
animation functions with Borland's and Microsoft's Graphic Interfaces.
Dorfman presents functions and corresponding source code for smoothly
moving graphics objects within a bit-plane in all directions; detecting
collisions between sprites, missiles, and bullets; and designing
multi-colored sprites.

This combination of collision detection and smooth sprite movement offers
animation programmers a potent graphics library available nowhere else for
anywhere near the price.

Disk includes:
* Working source code examples that demonstrate bit-plane
  animation techniques
* Complete, original code for a commercial-quality bit-plane
  graphics library
* The source code and executable file for a sprite editor program
  that generates the C source definitions of multi-colored
  sprites

About the Author:

The editor of Windcrest's Len Dorfman Practical Programming Series, Len
Dorfman (Miller Place, New York) is the author of 16 programming titles
including OS/2 Extra! KBD, MOU, and VIO Special Functions Revealed.

Lightning-Fast Animation Graphics
Len Dorfman
Paper $34.95 ISBN 0-07-017941-7
Hard  $48.95 ISBN 0-07-017940-9
Publication Date: August 1994
400 pp., 77 illus., 7 x 11

TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
1-800-233-1128,  FAX 717-794-2103

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