Advanced Graphics with the BBC Model B Microcomputer

✍ Scribed by Ian O. Angell, Brian J. Jones (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Graphics Operations of the BBC Model B Microcomputer....Pages 1-23
2 From Real Coordinates to Pixels....Pages 24-43
3 Two-Dimensional Coordinate Geometry....Pages 44-57
Matrix Representation of Transformations on Two-Dimensional Space....Pages 58-79
Character Graphics on the BBC Microcomputer....Pages 80-107
Diagrams and Data Graphs....Pages 109-131
Three-Dimensional Coordinate Geometry....Pages 133-149
Matrix Representation of Transformations on Three-Dimensional Space....Pages 150-160
Orthographic Projections....Pages 161-181
Simple Hidden Line and Hidden Surface Algorithms....Pages 182-195
Perspective and Stereoscopic Projections....Pages 196-208
A General-Purpose Hidden Surface and Hidden Line Algorithm....Pages 209-221
Teletext Graphics, Mode 7....Pages 222-241
Advanced Programming Techniques....Pages 243-264
A Worked Example of a Video Game....Pages 265-271
Projects....Pages 272-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-276

✦ Subjects

Computer Graphics; Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters