Computer Graphics Companion
Published on 14. June 2002
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-333-99785-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a volume of articles spanning a wide range of topics in computer graphics: the basics of graphics software and hardware; entertainment topics, including movies and animation; and mathematics, science and engineering topics including scientific visualization, medical applications, and computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing. The book includes a set of profiles written by computer graphics professionals that gives a personal look at the background it takes to work in the field, as well as some of the actual applications of concepts discussed in the technical articles. These professionals are working in scientific visualization, location-based entertainment, animation, knowledge transfer, rendering, graphics hardware and the arts. An extensive list of websites for graphics organizations, demonstration software and graphics hardware and software vendors is also included.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Col.ill.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-99785-7 (9780333997857)
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Persons
JEFFREY J. MCCONNELL has taught at Canisius College since 1983, and is the author of the textbook Analysis of Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (Jones & Bartlett, 2001). He received the I. Joan Lorch Women's Studies Award for his contributions to women at Canisius College and a Robert H. Goddard Fellowship. ANTHONY RALSTON is an Academic Visitor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, which he founded in 1967 and chaired until 1980. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on computer science and related areas, and a frequent contributor to leading books and journals in the field. EDWIN D. REILLY is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Albany. He served as the first chairman of its computer science department when founded in 1967 and as the first director of its computing centre in 1965. He began his career in computing at the National Security Agency in Washington in 1955. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the co-author of the Houghton-Mifflin textbook Pascalgorithms and the Macmillan (US) textbook VAX Assembly Language. DAVID HEMMENDINGER is Associate Professor of Computer Science and department chair at Union College, Schenectady, New York. He has also taught computer science at Wright State University in Ohio. His interests include programming languages, concurrent programming, and formal verification of hardware designs. He began work in computer science in 1981, having previously taught philosophy at the City University of New York and at Antioch and Kenyon Colleges. He has degrees from Harvard (B.A.) and Stanford Universities (M.S. in mathematics), Yale (M.A., Ph.D. in philosophy) and Wright State University (M.S. in computer science).