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Drawing on an impressive roster of experts in the field, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fifth Edition offers an ideal resource for computer course curricula as well as a user-friendly personal or professional reference. 
Focusing on geometric intuition, this book gives the necessary information for understanding how images get onto the screen by using the complementary approaches of ray tracing and rasterization. It covers topics common to an introductory course, such as sampling theory, texture mapping, spatial data structure, and splines. It also includes a number of contributed chapters from authors known for their expertise and clear way of explaining concepts. 
HIGHLIGHTS\nMajor updates and improvements to numerous chapters, including shading, ray tracing, physics-based rendering, math, and sampling\nUpdated coverage of existing topics\nThe absorption and reworking of several chapters to create a more natural flow to the book \nThe fifth edition of Fundamentals of Computer Graphics continues to provide an outstanding and comprehensive introduction to basic computer graphic technology and theory. It retains an informal and intuitive style while improving precision, consistency, and completeness of material, allowing aspiring and experienced graphics programmers to better understand and apply foundational principles to the development of efficient code in creating film, game, or web designs. 
 About the Author 
Steve Marschner, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA 
Peter Shirley, Purity LLC

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics: International Student Edition

Computers & Technology

Shirley, Peter

Marschner, Steve

Computer Science

A K Peters/CRC Press

Drawing on an impressive roster of experts in the field, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fourth Edition offers an ideal resource for computer course curricula as well as a user-friendly personal or professional reference. Focusing on geometric intuition, the book gives the necessary information for understanding how images get onto the screen by using the complementary approaches of ray tracing and rasterization. It covers topics common to an introductory course, such as sampling theory, texture mapping, spatial data structure, and splines. It also includes a number of contributed chapters from authors known for their expertise and clear way of explaining concepts.
Highlights of the Fourth Edition Include: <ul>
<li>Updated coverage of existing topics</li> <li>Major updates and improvements to several chapters, including texture mapping, graphics hardware, signal processing, and data structures</li> <li>A text now printed entirely in four-color to enhance illustrative figures of concepts</li>
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The fourth edition of Fundamentals of Computer Graphics continues to provide an outstanding and comprehensive introduction to basic computer graphic technology and theory. It retains an informal and intuitive style while improving precision, consistency, and completeness of material, allowing aspiring and experienced graphics programmers to better understand and apply foundational principles to the development of efficient code in creating film, game, or web designs. Key Features <ul>
<li>Provides a thorough treatment of basic and advanced topics in current graphics algorithms</li> <li>Explains core principles intuitively, with numerous examples and pseudo-code</li> <li>Gives updated coverage of the graphics pipeline, signal processing, texture mapping, graphics hardware, reflection models, and curves and surfaces</li> <li>Uses color images to give more illustrative power to concepts</li>
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Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

Programming

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.

Ashikhmin, Michael

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