Pictorial Communication In Real And Virtual Environments - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748400826 ISBN 13: 9780748400829

Publisher: CRC Press, 1993

Synopsis

Advances in the quality and accessibility of computer graphics has provided new pictorial displays and the tools with which to control them. These new display technologies have focused interest on how to design the static and dynamic images they produce to ensure effective communication. This book, based on the conference on Spatial Displays and Spatial instruments held at the Asilomar Conference Centre in 1987, focuses on the geometry of this communication. It is intended to be a source book of theoretical analysis, experimental demonstrations and practical examples from a range of contributors interested in pictorial communication, from medical artists to astronauts. The book offers the theoretical background and practical guidance needed by designers of contemporary 2D and 3D graphical computer interfaces. Its major contribution lies in its outlining of the elements of human perception and motor control which underlie the geometric design of head-mounted graphics for virtual reality displays.

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Synopsis

Current advances in computer processing power and hardware have enabled computer graphics to present new pictorial displays and representations, now popularly understood as virtual reality or VR. Conceived by and elicited from the laboratory responsibility, according to Howard Rheingold's book "Virtual Reality", for the blast-off of VR technology in the mid 1980s, this book analyzes the communication that develops between human users and machines in both real and synthetic environments. The 39 internatioally authored chapters address the perceptual, physiological, scientific and engineering issues that impact on successful pictorial communication. Specific synthetic environments are exemplified in virtual imagery, head-mounted displays and panel munted pictorial display; real but unusual environments are encountered in extreme human activities like space travel.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748400826
• ISBN 13: 9780748400829
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 604
• Editor: Ellis Stephen