Computer Graphics

DESAI, APURVA A.

2008年10月 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

關於本電子書

This text not only covers all topics required for a fundamental course in computer graphics but also emphasizes a programming-oriented approach to computer graphics. The book helps the students in understanding the basic principles for design of graphics and in developing skills in both two- and three-dimensional computer graphics systems.

Written in an accessible style, the presentation of the text is methodical, systematic and gently paced, covering a range of essential and conceivable aspects of computer graphics, which will give students a solid background to generate applications for their future work.

The book, divided into 11 chapters, begins with a general introduction to the subject and ends with explaining some of the exciting graphics techniques such as animation, morphing, digital image processing, fractals and ray tracing. Along the way, all the concepts up to two-dimensional graphics are explained through programs developed in C.

This book is intended to be a course text for the B.Tech/M.Tech students of Computer Science and Engineering, the B.Tech students of Information Technology and the M.Sc. students pursuing courses in Computer Science, Information Science and Information Technology, as well as the students of BCA and MCA courses.

Key Features :

Fundamentals are discussed in detail to help the students understand all the needed theory and the principles of computer graphics.

Extensive use of figures to convey even the simplest concepts.

Chapter-end exercises include conceptual questions and programming problems.

關於作者

APURVA A. DESAI, Ph.D., is Professor and Head, Depart-ment of Computer Science, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. He has been teaching computer graphics, data structures, artificial intelligence, software engi-neering, operations research, applications software, and Java both at graduate and postgraduate levels. Dr. Apurva Desai has published many research papers and also attended many national and inter-national conferences and workshops.