| | Amazon.ca: 3D Computer Graphics with CDROM: Books: Alan Watt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Over the course of 16 sections, Watt introduces the concepts and implementation of computer imaging, from "Mathematical Fundamentals of Computer Graphics" to "Representation and Rendering" and ending with "Image-Based Rendering and Photo-Modeling." The last section, devoted to computer animation, includes methods for linked structures, collision detection, and particle animation (to name a few). |
 | | Traditionally computer graphics has created pictures by starting with a very detailed geometric description, subjecting this to a series of transformations that orient a viewer and objects in 3D space, then imitating reality by making the objects look solid and real - a process known as rendering. |
 | | It was one of the first three graphics programming books I bought during the same early career book shopping session, it was definately the most useful of the three and it's stayed with me ever since, where other books have been and gone. |
| www.amazon.ca /Computer-Graphics-CDROM-Alan-Watt/dp/0201398559 (1299 words) |