Fundamentals of Computer Graphics - Hardcover

Marschner, Steve; Shirley, Peter

 
9781568814698: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568814690 ISBN 13: 9781568814698
Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2009

Synopsis

With contributions by Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Gleicher, Naty Hoffman, Garrett Johnson, Tamara Munzner, Erik Reinhard, Kelvin Sung, William B. Thompson, Peter Willemsen, Brian Wyvill.

The third edition of this widely adopted text gives students a comprehensive, fundamental introduction to computer graphics. 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.

New in this edition:

  • Four new contributed chapters, written by experts in their fields: Implicit Modeling, Computer Graphics in Games, Color, Visualization, including information visualization
  • Revised and updated material on the graphics pipeline, reflecting a modern viewpoint organized around programmable shading.
  • Expanded treatment of viewing that improves clarity and consistency while unifying viewing in ray tracing and rasterization.
  • Improved and expanded coverage of triangle meshes and mesh data structures.
  • A new organization for the early chapters, which concentrates foundational material at the beginning to increase teaching flexibility.

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    About the Author

    Peter Shirley is a principal research scientist at NVIDIA and an adjunct professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He has held positions at Indiana University and the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University.

    Steve Marschner is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University.

    From the Back Cover

    The third edition of this widely adopted text gives students a comprehensive, fundamental introduction to computer graphics. 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.New in this Edition Four new contributed chapters, written by experts in their fields: Implicit Modeling, Computer Graphics in Games, Color, Visualization Revised and updated material on the graphics pipeline Expanded treatment of viewing that improves clarity and consistency while unifying viewing in ray tracing and rasterization Expanded coverage of triangle meshes and mesh data structures

    "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

    Publisher
    A K Peters/CRC Press
    Publication date
    2009
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    1568814690
    ISBN 13 
    9781568814698
    Binding
    Hardcover
    Edition number
    3
    Number of pages
    752