Techniques for Computer Graphics
Published on 10. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 512 pages
978-1-4613-8715-2 (ISBN)
Description
Reviews 8 key areas which are focal points for current de- velopments. Theseare Design, Modeling, Image Generatiion, Workstations, VLSI, HCI, Graphics Standards, and Electronic Documentation.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
VIII, 512 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
814 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-8715-2 (9781461387152)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-8713-8
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David F. Rogers | Rae Earnshaw
Techniques for Computer Graphics
International Summer Institute on State of the Art Computer Graphics : Papers
Book
10/2001
Springer
€85.55
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Content
1 Design.- Computer Graphics in Design.- Design in Computer Graphics: A Plea for Visual Literacy.- 2 Modeling.- Computational Geometry and Software Engineering: Towards a Geometric Computing Environment.- The Model for Graphics.- The Beta Spline.- A Model Driven Approach to CAD and Graphic Communication Networks.- Understanding the Preparation and Analysis of Solid Models.- 3.- The Use of Spatial Coherence in Ray Tracing.- Color Reproduction and Illumination Models.- 4 Workstations.- Advanced Engineering/Scientific Graphic Workstations.- 5 Hardware.- VLSI for Graphics.- Specialised Hardware for Computer Graphics.- Polygon Processing for VLSI Pattern Generation.- 6 Human-Computer Interface.- Human Factors of Input and Output Devices.- HCI and Research and Development in User Interface Design.- 7 Graphics Standards.- R & D-Issues and Trends Consequent Upon GKS and Related Standards.- 8 Documentation.- On-line Documentation.- Document Structures for Integrated Text and Graphics.- Author Biographies.