By uniquely combining current concepts and practical applications in computer graphics, four well-known authors provide here the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of the field. The important algorithms in 2D and 3D graphics are detailed for easy implementation, including a close look at the more subtle special cases. There is also a thorough presentation of the mathematical principles of geometric transformations and viewing.

In this book, the authors explore multiple perspectives on computer graphics: the user"s, the application programmer"s, the package implementor"s, and the hardware designer"s. For example, the issues of user-centered design are expertly addressed in three chapters on interaction techniques, dialogue design, and user interface software. Hardware concerns are examined in a chapter, contributed by Steven Molnar and Henry Fuchs, on advanced architectures for real-time, high-performance graphics.

The comprehensive topic coverage includes:

- Programming with SRGP, a simple but powerful raster graphics package that combines features of Apple"s QuickDraw and the MIT X Window System graphics library.

- Hierarchical, geometric modeling using SPHIGS, a simplified dialect of the 3D graphics standard PHIGS.

- Raster graphics hardware and software, including both basic and advanced algorithms for scan converting and clipping lines, polygons, conies, spline curves, and text.

- Image synthesis, including visible-surface determination, illumination and shading models, image manipulation, and antialiasing.

- Techniques for photorealistic rendering, including ray tracing and radiosity methods.

- Surface modeling with parametric polynomials, including NURBS, and solid-modeling representations such as B-reps, CSG, and octrees.

- Advanced modeling techniques such as fractals, grammar-based models, particle systems, physically based modeling, and volume rendering.

- Concepts of computer animation and descriptions of state-of-the-art animation systems.

Over 100 full-color plates and over 700 figures illustrate the techniques presented in the book. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes)