Product Description

This text offers a comprehensive treatment of computer graphics. It provides the fundamental mathematics used in graphics programs and covers the basics of graphics pipeline, BSP trees and ray tracing. The volume addresses a wide range of advanced topics, including NURBS, animation, colour science, global illumination, subdivision surfaces, virtual reality, visualization and others. The author provides enough detail to implement the ideas presented; the mathematics in the book stress a geometric point of view and are oriented toward clean implementation. Each chapter contains a set of exercises and references for further reading. The intended audience for this work are programmers with an undergraduate-level background in mathematics. "Computer Graphics" is suitable for one- or two-semester courses or for practitioners as a reference. No particular computer language or API is assumed; the book covers the material in a manner that should allow readers to quickly understand implementations in APIs such as OpenGL, Java3D and Direct 3D.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1786297 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 392 pages

About the Author
Peter Shirley is a professor in the computer science department at the University of Utah. He is a member of the Visual Simulation Group, whose work focuses on the creation of images for the human visual system, including static and dynamic imagery for traditional displays and immersive environments. He has held positions at Indiana University and the Cornell Center for Computer Graphics, Game Programming.

Customer Reviews

Rather heavy duty
A heavy dose of maths from A-level to undergrad sort of standard, genuine enough but not necessarily put across the best. A good quantity of examples, but drawings for concepts not always very clear. More heavy duty than the fundamentals mentioned in the title.