Supported with code examples and the authors real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind. The content is also useful for general graphics and games, especially planet and massive-world engines. With pragmatic advice throughout, it is essential reading for practitioners, researchers, and hobbyists in these areas, and can be used as a text for a special topics course in computer graphics.

Topics covered include:

• Rendering globes, planet-sized terrain, and vector data
• Multithread resource management
• Out-of-core algorithms
• Shader-based renderer design

Jack Kerouac 1922-1969. On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Cody, Desolation Angels, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, Mexico City Blues, The Town and the City, Vanity of Duluoz and many more. Coming from the notebooks, the burning typewriter, the racing imagination of Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a '... strange, solitary, catholic mystic ...' - he was celebrated, then destroyed by fame, neglected in the years that followed and then rediscovered. We are still discovering who he is today.