Published in 1999, I worked on this mostly in the summer of that year "between jobs". I had left Real 3D and started Starstone, and my one big client ran out of money. Just as this book was going to press, I started working for a casual game company, and teaching OpenGL at Full Sail. I was hired by Full Sail just in time to put that I taught OpenGL at Full Sail on the back cover.
Michael Sweet modeled a jet plane out of the gluQuadric objects. It was quite
an improvement over my hand modeled jet from the last edition!
If your missing the CD, the ancient source code from this book is here: