FEATURES
p.17 Understanding Scene Graphs
[author : Aaron E. Walsh]
Scene graphs are data structures used to organize and manage a variety of media types, including those supported by VRML, Extensible 3D, MPEG-4, and Java 3D.
p.32 Shadow Mapping
[author : Sergei Savchenko]
Shadow mapping is a multipass technique for creating dynamic shadows. This shadow map algorithm is applicable to a wide variety of accelerated hardware and can be implemented using OpenGL.
p.38 Inside Intel's JPEG Library
[author : Mark R. Nelson]
Mark examines Intel's Win32 JPEG Library, presents a slideshow application he built to test it, and compares Intel's library to Microsoft's standard IPicture component.
p.46 Smooth Talking Your Databases
[author : Dennis E. Shasha and Philippe Bonnet]
Building bridges between islands of data is critical — but not always that easy to do.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
p.56 Determining Processor Utilization
[author : Byron Miller]
Performance requirements are often considered after the fact when it comes to selecting processors for embedded products.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
p.65 Monitoring Web Application Performance & ISAPI
[author : Kevin T. Manley]
Accurately measuring the performance characteristics of web applications under realistic loads is a difficult task. Kevin presents an Internet Server API (ISAPI) filter for Microsoft IIS that does just that.
COLUMNS
p.75 Programming Paradigms
[author : Michael Swaine]
p.79 C Programming
[author : Al Stevens]
p.83 Embedded Space
[author : Ed Nisley]
p.98 Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
WORKBENCH
p.71 Programmer's Toolchest
[author : Martin Heller]
p.86 Java Q&A
[author : Eric J. Bruno]
p.93 Algorithm Alley
[author : Peter Smith]
p.100 Programmer's Bookshelf
[author : Peter N. Roth]
FORUM
p.8 Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
p.10 Letters
[author : you]
p.12 The New Adventures of Verity Stob
[author : Verity Stob]
p.14 News & Views
[author : Shannon Cochran]
p.102 Of Interest
[author : Della Song]
p.104 Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]