Introduction to Computer Graphics

by David J. Eck

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Introduction to Computer Graphics covers the fundamentals of computer graphics and computer graphics programming. This book is meant for use as a textbook in a one-semester course that would typically be taken by undergraduate computer science majors in their third or fourth year of college.

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Publisher
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Subjects
Engineering, Computer Science
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Preface
  7. 1: Introduction
  8. 1.1: Painting and Drawing
  9. 1.2: Elements of 3D Graphics
  10. 1.3: Hardware and Software
  11. 2: Two-Dimensional Graphics
  12. 2.1: Pixels, Coordinates, and Colors
  13. 2.2: Shapes
  14. 2.3: Transforms
  15. 2.4: Hierarchical Modeling
  16. 2.5: Java Graphics2D
  17. 2.6: HTML Canvas Graphics
  18. 2.7: SVG- A Scene Description Language
  19. 3: OpenGL 1.1- Geometry
  20. 3.1: Shapes and Colors in OpenGL 1.1
  21. 3.2: 3D Coordinates and Transforms
  22. 3.3: Projection and Viewing
  23. 3.4: Polygonal Meshes and glDrawArrays
  24. 3.5: Some Linear Algebra
  25. 3.6: Using GLUT and JOGL
  26. 4: OpenGL 1.1- Light and Material
  27. 4.1: Introduction to Lighting
  28. 4.2: Light and Material in OpenGL 1.1
  29. 4.3: Image Textures
  30. 4.4: Lights, Camera, Action
  31. 5: Three.js- A 3D Scene Graph API
  32. 5.1: Three.js Basics
  33. 5.2: Building Objects
  34. 5.3: Other Features
  35. 6: Introduction to WebGL
  36. 6.1: The Programmable Pipeline
  37. 6.2: First Examples
  38. 6.3: GLSL
  39. 6.4: Image Textures
  40. 6.5: Implementing 2D Transforms
  41. 7: 3D Graphics with WebGL
  42. 7.1: Transformations in 3D
  43. 7.2: Lighting and Material
  44. 7.3: Textures
  45. 7.4: Framebuffers
  46. 7.5: WebGL Extensions
  47. 8: Beyond Realtime Graphics
  48. 8.1: Ray Tracing
  49. 8.2: Path Tracing
  50. 9: Programming Languages
  51. 9.1: The Java Programming Language
  52. 9.2: The C Programming Language
  53. 9.3: The JavaScript Programming Language
  54. 10: Blender- A 3D Modeling Program
  55. 10.1: Blender Basics
  56. 10.2: Blender Modeling
  57. 10.3: Blender Animation
  58. 11: Gimp and Inkscape for 2D Graphics
  59. 11.1: Gimp - A 2D Painting Program
  60. 11.2: Inkscape - A 2D Drawing Program
  61. 12: Listing of Sample Programs
  62. 12.1: Java Graphics2D Examples
  63. 12.2: HTML Canvas 2D Examples
  64. 12.3: Scalable Vector Graphics Examples
  65. 12.4: OpenGL 1.1 Examples
  66. 12.5: Three.js Examples
  67. 12.6: WebGL Examples
  68. 12.7: Live Demos
  69. 13: Glossary
  70. 13.1: Glossary
  71. Back Matter
  72. Index
  73. Index
  74. Glossary
  75. Detailed Licensing