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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection ... Read more

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Over 100 full-color plates and over 700 figures illustrate the techniques presented in the book. The authors provide a unique combination of current concepts and practical applications. Important algorithms in 2D and 3D graphics are detailed for easy implementation. Computer graphics are explored from the perspective of the user.Amazon.com Review
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice is the mostexhaustive overview of computer graphics techniques available. Thistextbook's 21 chapters cover graphics hardware, user interfacesoftware, rendering, and a host of other subjects. Assuming a solidbackground in computer science or a related field, ComputerGraphicsgives example programs in C and provides exercises at theend of each chapter to test your knowledge of the material. The guidehas over 100 beautiful, four-color photographs that illustrateimportant topics and algorithms, such as ray tracing and bump maps,and also inspire you to acquire the skills necessary to producethem. Encyclopedic in its coverage, the book has a good table ofcontents so that you can immediately turn to information on thez-Buffer algorithm or the chapter on animation. ... Read more

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This is a bible for computer graphics. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn computer graphics knowledge base.

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If you're a beginner looking for a book which has example code you can test out and try, either forget it or be prepared for some headache.

I can speak on my experience, I have a GNU/Linux system, the SRGP library which is used by this book only supports a display depth of 8bpp, which means you'll most likely need to reconfigure your X server to some extent - the examples/library will crash at higher display depths.

But there is no doubt that the techniques and principles explained throughout can be applied using other toolkits, as the book explicitly says that the facilities contained in the example libraries are common to many other graphics libraries.

A quick note on the quality of the library code, it appears to be pre-ANSI C and contains a few modern no-nos, which can lead to crashes.

If you're looking for a book to merely use as a reference or for theory then this is what this book is, and as one other reviewer said, you could probably just borrow a copy of the book and xerox the bibliography to refer to the papers it sources information from.

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Except for the chapters on raster algorithms, this book is just an extended bibliography. It has no material on texturing, for example, just a reference to the original paper on it. The math isn't that mature either, and the chapter on Perspective Projections is a pedagogical atrocity. Instead of buying this book, just go to your local univ. library and xerox the bibliography; then, lookup the articles on topics you're interested in.

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This book is a great book for general knowledge but all of the chapters that deal with talking about hardware is badly outdated. I got this book mostly for algorithms. I got much more then what I expected but most of everything I needed was there. Its a very good book for learning about line drawing, and polygon rasteration algorithms. Don't expect anything up to date like shaders though. ... Read more

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John Roth has had a long and very productive career in bacterial genetics and has influenced many in the field through his teaching and research. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, and in the year in which he is to receive the prestigious Thomas Hunt Morgan Award from the Genetics Society of America, a number of his students and colleagues have assembled a collection of essays in bacterial genetics in his honor. These essays are designed to be interesting reading for all those working in or interested in bacterial genetics, and they examine topics in some of the areas in which John Roth has worked, including gene expression and regulation; physiology and metabolism; chromosomes, genomes and evolution; and applications of microbial genetics to such things as antibiotic resistance and the quest for new vaccines. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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I never read a book that kept me awake at night until now. All of The Spark's characters; Ruddy, Sister Farah, Bowman, come to life, and the realistic possibilities of the pent-up anger the blacks had for the whites, and the deep-seeded suspicions the whites had of blacks brought out in this story left me feeling cold and thrilled. I love Hughes' writing. It's a combination of John Grisham and Stephen King. I hope he continues his Bowman character in his next book. The Spark destroyed many beliefs that I had about my 'white prespective' of the current race relations in this country. It also destroyed a full-day at the beach. I stayed inside to read and never left my room ... Read more

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Functional Programming is a relatively new area of computer science. These proceedings contain 25 papers representing an excellent snapshot of the current state of functional programming and are written by the leading computer scientists in this aera. In some universities, a functional programming language is used as the introductory teaching language and computer architectures are being designed and investigated to support functional languages. ... Read more

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This book contains 80 brief cases based on excerpts from annual reports of real companies.Case requirements are both procedural and conceptual in character.Procedural aspects typically involve working backwards from financial statements to analyses of transactions.Conceptual aspects involve reflecting on the rationale for an accounting treatment and/or the consequences of a change in that treatment.Ideally suited for the first level MBA course in financial accounting, undergraduate course in Financial Accounting and Intermediate Accounting. ... Read more