Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling: Implementation & Algorithms

✍ Scribed by Max K. Agoston

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 921
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Possibly the most comprehensive overview of computer graphics as seen in the context of geometric modelling, this two volume work covers implementation and theory in a thorough and systematic fashion. Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling: Implementation and Algorithms, covers the computer graphics part of the field of geometric modelling and includes all the standard computer graphics topics. The first part deals with basic concepts and algorithms and the main steps involved in displaying photorealistic images on a computer. The second part covers curves and surfaces and a number of more advanced geometric modelling topics including intersection algorithms, distance algorithms, polygonizing curves and surfaces, trimmed surfaces, implicit curves and surfaces, offset curves and surfaces, curvature, geodesics, blending etc. The third part touches on some aspects of computational geometry and a few special topics such as interval analysis and finite element methods. The volume includes two companion programs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Preface
Contents
Part I - Basic Computer Graphics
1 - Introduction
2 - Raster Algorithms
3 - Clipping
4 - Transformations and the Graphics Pipeline
5 - Approaches to Geometric Modeling
6 - Basic Geometric Modeling Tools
7 - Visible Surface Algorithms
8 - Color
9 - Illumination and Shading
10 - Rendering Techniques
Part II - Geometric Modeling Topics
11 - Curves in Computer Graphics
12 - Surfaces in Computer Graphics
13 - Intersection Algorithms
14 - Global Geometric Modeling Topics
15 - Local Geometric Modeling Topics
16 - Intrinsic Geometric Modeling
Part III - More on Special Computer Graphics Topics
17 - Computational Geometry Topics
18 - Interval Analysis
19 - The Finite Element Method
20 - Quaternions
21 - Digital Image Processing Topics
22 - Chaos and Fractals
Bibliography
Index
Blibliographic Index
Index of Algorithms