Books

• Books that were used in preparing this seminar were:
  
  
  • Foley, James D., Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes and Richard L. Phillips, Introduction to Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1994.
    ISBN 0-201-60921-5
    Call number: T385.I538 1994
    
    
  • Kerlow, Isaac Victor, The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Imaging, Van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1996.
    ISBN 0-442-01896-7
    Call number: T385.K45 1996
    
    
  • Lathrop, Olin, The Way Computer Graphics Works, Wiley Computer Publishing, 1997.
    ISBN 0-471-13040-0
    Call number: T385.L382 1997
    
    
  • Mortenson, M. E., Computer Graphics: An Introduction to the Mathematics and Geometry, Industril Press Inc., 1989.
    ISBN 0-8311-1182-8
    Call number: T385.M668 1988
    
    
  • Watt, Alan H., 3D Computer Graphics, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 2nd. ed., 1993.
    ISBN 0-201-63186-5.
    Call number: T385.W3778 1993
    
    
• Additional titles that may be of interest include:
  
  
  • Farin, Gerald, Curves and Surfaces for Computer Aided Geometric Design (2nd ed.), Academic Press, 1990.
    ISBN 0-12-249051-7
    
    
  • Watt, Alan H. and Mark Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1992.
    ISBN 0-201-54412-1
    Call number: T385.W378 1992
    
    

Web resources:

• JAVA3D - scene graph API for JAVA programmers.
  
  http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/index.html
  
  
• OpenGL - widely adopted graphics API.
  
  http://www.opengl.org/
  
  
• VRML Repository - SDSC VRML information organized by topic, searchable.
  
  http://www.web3d.org/vrml
  
  
• IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer - Dataflow visualization system
  
  www.opendx.org
  
  
• Visualization Toolkit (VTK) - Visualization toolkit classes for use with C++, Tcl/TK, JAVA
  
  public.kitware.com/VTK
  
  
• SIGGRAPH - ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics
  
  www.siggraph.org
  

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