Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
2nd Edition
Published on 19. July 2005
Book
Hardback
652 pages
978-1-56881-269-4 (ISBN)
Description
The second edition of this widely adopted text includes a wealth of new material, with new chapters on Signal Processing (Marschner), Using Graphics Hardware (Willemsen), Building Interactive Graphics Applications (Sung), Perception (Thompson), Curves (Gleicher), Computer Animation (Ashikhmin), and Tone Reproduction (Reinhard).
Maintaining the strengths of the first edition, the authors present the mathematical foundations of computer graphics with a focus on geometric intuition, allowing the programmer to understand and apply those foundations to the development of efficient code.
Maintaining the strengths of the first edition, the authors present the mathematical foundations of computer graphics with a focus on geometric intuition, allowing the programmer to understand and apply those foundations to the development of efficient code.
Reviews / Votes
" ""This book is highly recommended as either a textbook for a course in computer graphics or as a reliable and wide-ranging handbook for those developing graphics applications. The book provides a firm foundation in the field that enables programmers to readily apply its content to a variety of graphics packages across a wide spectrum of platforms."" -Marlin Thomas, May 2006""The book has become a common pendulum of computer graphics that covers all important subjects from scene graphics to l-systems from event governed programming to data visualization in a compact, clear and competent way. "" -Jorn Loviscach, May 2006"
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Natick
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
1179 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56881-269-4 (9781568812694)
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Other editions
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Peter Shirley | Michael Ashikhmin | Steve Marschner
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
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07/2009
3rd Edition
A K Peters
€112.84
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Previous edition
Peter Shirley
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
Book
06/2002
1st Edition
A K Peters
€70.76
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