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by: Peter Shirley, Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Gleicher, Stephen Marschner, Erik Reinhard, Kelvin Sung, William Thompson, Peter Willemsen See Larger Image List Price: $94.00 Our Price: $92.12 You Save: $1.88 ( 2%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $43.99 Third Party New Price: $72.41 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6 EAN: 9781568812694 ISBN: 1568812698 Label: A K Peters, Ltd. Manufacturer: A K Peters, Ltd. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 662 Publication Date: 2005-07 Publisher: A K Peters, Ltd. Sales Rank: 609683 Studio: A K Peters, Ltd. Related Items: OpenGL(R) Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL(R), Version 2.1 (6th Edition) (OpenGL) OpenGL(R) Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL(R), Version 2 (5th Edition) (OpenGL) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) Introduction to Algorithms Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition see more Editorial Review: Product Description: The second edition of this widely adopted text includes a wealth of new material, with new chapters on Signal Processing (Marschner), Using graphics hardware (Willemsen), Writing graphics applications (Sung), Perception (Thompson), Curves (Gleicher), Animation (Ashikhmin), and Tone reproduction (Reinhard). Maintaining the strengths of the first edition, the authors present the mathematical foundations of computer graphics with a focus on geometric intuition, allowing the programmer to understand and apply those foundations to the development of efficient code. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - focuses on algorithms, not hardware or animation Shirley's book could be compared to the classic graphics text by Foley and van Dam. Shirley focuses more on the key algorithms for graphics. Whereas Foley also goes into describing some of the hardware. Shirley also stays away from some low level methods, that were first devised when the first raster and vector displays were coming on the market. For example, there's nothing here about Bresenham's algorithm, for drawing a circle without recourse to trig functions. The latter exact a heavy time penalty ... Read More Rating: - Not much to say This book was sufficient enough for the class I used it for. It has very few errata compared to most text books. Rating: - Good book, but beware the reflection algorithm All and all I've been very pleased with this book, however, do not trust the reflection algorithm in the ray tracer chapter. It should be a minus, not a plus. Rating: - Helpful: errata page Though this text provides the reader with a thorough treatment of the basic and advanced topics of today's graphics algorithms and techniques, some errors pop up here and there which might be problematic when trying to program according to the book, or trying out the execution of an algorithm. An errata page has been provided by the writer which might be useful to readers of this text; it can be found at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~shirley/fcg/errata I hope this helps some people out. I, for one, started ... Read More Rating: - One of CG API-independent Books I use this book as a textbook for 3D Computer Graphics course. Before using this book, I've used Donald Hearns' and Jim Foley's. Compare to those two, I think this book cover the basic material without even touching API. This is what I like about this book. On every chapter, there is an FAQ about materials covered. It also has an exercises for us to do, unfortunately no answers. It could also be very helpful, if there are Internet links on each chapter for us to ponder or if we would want to go ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Computer Science - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Graphics & Visualization Computer Science - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Software Engineering - Computer Science - Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - Information Systems