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Techniques for computer graphics

David F. Rogers, Rae A. Earnshaw, editors

Springer-Verlag, c1987

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  • : gw

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"Papers for an International Summer Institute on the State of the Art in Computer Graphics, held at the University of Stirling, Scotland, summer 1986, sponsored by the British Computer Society Computer Graphics and Displays Group and the Computer Graphics Society"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Reviews 8 key areas which are focal points for current de-velopments. Theseare Design, Modeling, Image Generatiion,Workstations, VLSI, HCI, Graphics Standards, and ElectronicDocumentation.

Table of Contents

1 Design.- Computer Graphics in Design.- Design in Computer Graphics: A Plea for Visual Literacy.- 2 Modeling.- Computational Geometry and Software Engineering: Towards a Geometric Computing Environment.- The Model for Graphics.- The Beta Spline.- A Model Driven Approach to CAD and Graphic Communication Networks.- Understanding the Preparation and Analysis of Solid Models.- 3.- The Use of Spatial Coherence in Ray Tracing.- Color Reproduction and Illumination Models.- 4 Workstations.- Advanced Engineering/Scientific Graphic Workstations.- 5 Hardware.- VLSI for Graphics.- Specialised Hardware for Computer Graphics.- Polygon Processing for VLSI Pattern Generation.- 6 Human-Computer Interface.- Human Factors of Input and Output Devices.- HCI and Research and Development in User Interface Design.- 7 Graphics Standards.- R & D-Issues and Trends Consequent Upon GKS and Related Standards.- 8 Documentation.- On-line Documentation.- Document Structures for Integrated Text and Graphics.- Author Biographies.

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  • NCID
    BA0117167X
  • ISBN
    • 0387964924
    • 3540964924
  • LCCN
    87009766
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 512 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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