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Michael Abrash's classic Graphics Programming Black Book is a compilation of Michael's previous writings on assembly language and graphics programming (including from his "Graphics Programming" column in Dr. Dobb's Journal). Much of the focus of this book is on profiling and code testing, as well as performance optimization. It also explores much of the technology behind the Doom and Quake 3-D games, and 3-D graphics problems such as texture mapping, hidden surface removal, and the like. Thanks to Michael for making this book available.

The full text of the book is available here in PDF format. Due to the book's length, we've made each chapter available separately. The files are large, so we don't recommend reading them online. We suggest downloading them first (right-click on the link). You may want to start by downloading the Cover, Table of Contents, Introduction, Part 1 Opening Page, and Part 2 Opening Page. Then download any chapters you want.

If you keep all files in the same directory, the "Previous" and "Next" links at the beginning and end of each chapter will work (provided you have downloaded those chapters).

NOTE: Each chapter also has a "Home" link at its beginning and end. This link does not work: the PDF files were taken from a larger CD-ROM collection, and this link is now out of context. Due to the nature of these files, we were unable to remove the link. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The complete book is 153 MB in size.

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1	[Opening Page]
Part 2	[Opening Page]
Chapter 1	The Best Optimizer is between Your Ears (4.3 MB)
Chapter 2	A World Apart (2.7 MB)
Chapter 3	Assume Nothing (2.6 MB)
Chapter 4	In the Lair of the Cycle-Eaters (3 MB)
Chapter 5	Crossing the Border (1.5 MB)
Chapter 6	Looking Past Face Value (3.5 MB)
Chapter 7	Local Optimization (2.1 MB)
Chapter 8	Speeding Up C with Assembly Language (3.7 MB)
Chapter 9	Hints My Readers Gave Me (2.7 MB)
Chapter 10	Patient Coding, Faster Code (3.8 MB)
Chapter 11	Pushing the 286 and 386 (3.5 MB)
Chapter 12	Pushing the 486 (2.2 MB)
Chapter 13	Aiming the 486 (2.4 MB)
Chapter 14	Boyer-Moore String Searching (2.2 MB)
Chapter 15	Boyer-Moore String Searching (2.2 MB)
Chapter 16	There Ain't No Such Thing as the Fastest Code (4.7 MB)
Chapter 17	The Game of Life (2.2 MB)
Chapter 18	It's a Wonderful Life (4.2 MB)
Chapter 19	Pentium: Not the Same Old Song (1.4 MB)
Chapter 20	Pentium Rules (5.8 MB)
Chapter 21	Unleashing the Pentium's V-pipe (0.8 MB)
Chapter 22	Zenning and the Flexible Mind (0.5 MB)
Chapter 23	Bones and Sinew (5.2 MB)
Chapter 24	Parallel Processing with the VGA (2.9 MB)
Chapter 25	VGA Data Machinery (2.7 MB)
Chapter 26	VGA Write Mode 3 (2.4 MB)
Chapter 27	Yet Another VGA Write Mode (3.5 MB)
Chapter 28	Reading VGA Memory (0.8 MB)
Chapter 29	Saving Screens and Other VGA Mysteries (1 MB)
Chapter 30	Video Est Omnis Divisa (1.1 MB)
Chapter 31	Higher 256-Color Resolution on the VGA (1.5 MB)
Chapter 32	Be It Resolved: 360x480 (0.8 MB)
Chapter 33	Yogi Bear and Eurythmics Confront VGA Colors (2.9 MB)
Chapter 34	Changing Colors without Writing Pixels (1 MB)
Chapter 35	Bresenham Is Fast, and Fast Is Good (1.2 MB)
Chapter 36	The Good, theBad, and the Run-Sliced (0.9 MB)
Chapter 37	Dead Cats and Lightning Lines (0.7 MB)
Chapter 38	The Polygon Primeval (3.9 MB)
Chapter 39	Fast Convex Polygons (4.2 MB)
Chapter 40	Of Songs, Taxes, and the Simplicity of Complex Polygons (1 MB)
Chapter 41	Those Way-Down Polygon Nomenclature Blues (0.8 MB)
Chapter 42	Wu'ed in Haste; Fried, Stewed at Leisure (1.5 MB)
Chapter 43	Bit-Plane Animation (5.6 MB)
Chapter 44	Split Screens Save the Page-Flipped Day (1.2 MB)
Chapter 45	Dog Hair and Dirty Rectangles (2.5 MB)
Chapter 46	Who Was that Masked Image? (0.9 MB)
Chapter 47	Mode X: 256-Color VGA Magic (1.5 MB)
Chapter 48	Mode X Marks the Latch (1.9 MB)
Chapter 49	Mode X 256-Color Animation (2.7 MB)
Chapter 50	Adding a Dimension (1.3 MB)
Chapter 51	Sneakers in Space (1.6 MB)
Chapter 52	Fast 3-D Animation: Meet X-Sharp (0.9 MB)
Chapter 53	Raw Speed and More (0.9 MB)
Chapter 54	3-D Shading (1.1 MB)
Chapter 55	Color Modeling in 256-Color Mode (2.3 MB)
Chapter 56	Pooh and the Space Station (1.8 MB)
Chapter 57	10,000 Freshly Sheared Sheep on the Screen (2.2 MB)
Chapter 58	Heinlein's Crystal Ball, Spock's Brain, and the 9-Cycle Dare (2.2 MB)
Chapter 59	The Idea of BSP Trees (1.6 MB)
Chapter 60	Compiling BSP Trees (0.8 MB)
Chapter 61	Frames of Reference (0.9 MB)
Chapter 62	One Story, Two Rules, and a BSP Renderer (0.8 MB)
Chapter 63	Floating-Point for Real-Time 3-D (0.6 MB)
Chapter 64	Quake's Visible-Surface Determination (2 MB)
Chapter 65	3-D Clipping and Other Thoughts (1.6 MB)
Chapter 66	Quake's Hidden-Surface Removal (0.7 MB)
Chapter 67	Sorted Spans in Action (0.8 MB)
Chapter 68	Quake's Lighting Model (1.8 MB)
Chapter 69	Surface Caching and Quake's Triangle Models (0.9 MB)
Chapter 70	Quake: A Post-Mortem and a Glimpse into the Future (1.9 MB)
Afterword	(0.1 MB)
Index	(2.2 MB)

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