High-resolution Computer Graphics Using FORTRAN 77

✍ Scribed by Ian O. Angell, Gareth Griffith (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Series: Macmillan Computer Science Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Familiarisation with Graphics Devices and Primitives....Pages 1-22
Data Structures....Pages 23-37
An Introduction to Two-dimensional Co-ordinate Geometry....Pages 38-53
Matrix Representation of Transformations in Two-dimensional Space....Pages 54-77
Techniques for Manipulating Two-dimensional Objects....Pages 78-107
Three-dimensional Co-ordinate Geometry....Pages 108-130
Matrix Representation of Transformations in Three-dimensional Space....Pages 131-150
The Observer and the Orthographic Projection....Pages 151-162
Generation of Model Data....Pages 163-187
Simple Hidden Line and Surface Algorithms....Pages 188-203
Perspective and Stereoscopic Projections....Pages 204-214
A More General Hidden Line Algorithm....Pages 215-225
A More General Hidden Surface Algorithm....Pages 226-235
Three-dimensional Clipping....Pages 236-246
Shading....Pages 247-282
Shadows, Transparent Surfaces and Reflections....Pages 283-301
Analytic Representation of Three-dimensional Space....Pages 302-313
Projects....Pages 314-324
Back Matter....Pages 325-355

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Computer Graphics