Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics

Solid math background without code base that becomes obsolete after a year.This book covers many topic and techniques and gives all the foundation for this field.I enjoyed reading it and the way the author dive into the physics and math and explains them.

This book is perfect for anyone with a basic introduction to differential and integral calculus and some exposure to vector calculus looking to gain a lot of practical and theoretical insight into how fluids are simulated for animation. Plenty of intuition about the physics of fluids is also taught, even if you're not interested in computer graphics.

This book is fantastic.Wait - 2 stars for a "fantastic" book? Am I nuts?Here's the thing: I bought this book as a "Kindle eBook" from Amazon. I started reading it and was amazed by the fluent style (pun intended) of the writing, the understandable approach to mathematics I never understood at school and now felt like I could finally master. Yes, the book is rather math-heavy, you do need some stamina to get through the integrals and things.Usually I would buy books as printed on paper, because I do remember where in a book something was written, so I can quickly jump back and forth utilizing my bio bubble brain. In this case, however, the math and references in the text made the feature "ebook" look overwhelmingly convenient: Being able to just click on a link, see the explanation of, say, the Poision Equation and then jump back by another click was EXACTLY what my rapidly aging mind was drooling for.Only: It does not work.This ebook does not work as an ebook AT ALL. Neither can you use the content directory to jump to the chapter you would like to read nor can you use any of the (many) cross references throughout the book. You can not even jump to a footnote and back to the text by a simple click.You can not zoom in to have a larger writing and have the ebook (after all, it is SOLD as an ebook - not as a cheap photo copy, we're living in the 21 first century, not 1736, after all, not that they had photo copiers back then, to my knowledge, but I am disgressing) reflow the text.See what I did there? When you read something else, being in the middle of something, you loose track. This book - the tech it is sold in - is all about constantly loosing track.It is one of the worst "ebooks" I have ever read. It is one of the best MATH books I have ever tried to read.Now, I am not as stupid as I may seem from the above: Obviously this is a PDF. It is one of the most poorly produced PDFs in the history of PDFs for sure, but after all, it's a PDF. I could edit it myself, insert all the missing links. Sure, I'd need to break the DRM ... but before I even think about this: IT IS NOT MY JOB. It is the job of the publisher to deliver a working product (in the case of a book with paper pages, that's a book you can actually open and read - in the case of an ebook, well ...). If the publisher does not want to (and CRC press does not want to, I contacted them about this and they bluntly told me to complain with Amazon, not with them), then Amazon's QA needs to step in.This book at this price is not OK.The content is FANTASTIC. The book as a sold product is a slap in the customer's face, unfortunately. I can NOT recommend buying products from CRC press (it seems some of their other products are equally fundamentally flawed), and would just wish I could send the money directly to the author for a "working ebook version". Self publishing these days seems to be the ONLY way to get a good product out.

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Must have book if you want to understand how fluid solvers works in depth. Great book