The Book's Companion Webpage

Alexei Sourin
Computer Graphics: From a Small Formula to Cyberworlds
3rdedition, ISBN 9789810692346
 Pearson Prentice Hall, Singapore, 383 pages, 2012

This book provides foundations of computer graphics theory, hardware and programming, as well as outlines how computer graphics problems can be solved in major application areas. Each foundation chapter of the book offers exercises and quizzes with model solutions. The theoretical concepts are illustrated with very useful programming exercises. This book offers case studies of the commonly available and de facto standard graphics software—POV-Ray, OpenGL, GLUT, VRML and X3D—which let the readers apply theoretical principles into practice without requesting expensive hardware and software solutions. Supplementary reading and sources of information on computer graphics and its applications, including the Book’s Companion Web Page, are provided as well. 

The softcover book is available in NTU book store and NTU library.

This book is a revised and amended edition of the book “Computer graphics: from a small formula to virtual worlds”
which was printed in 2004 and 2005. Besides overall revisions and corrections of the text, the third part of the book
is significantly enlarged by adding more programming exercises on function-based shape modeling and building cyberworlds.

Book cover

Contents

Preface

Index

Chapter 13

sample.c

Source code of the simple OpenGL/GLUT application.

demo.exe

Parametric metamorphoses demo program (requires GLUT dll).

fsm.zip

Zipped file with the MS Visual C files of the interactive shape modeling program and its executable file.

carving.pov

Function-defined model of a carved board exported to POV-Ray scene file.

Chapter 14

Virtual Campus

A web page of the Virtual Campus of NTU.

scene.zip

3D Studio MAX and VRML files of the interactive scenes.

myworld.zip

Frame-set Blaxxun Contact files for setting up a shared VRML community.
Colab Web-based Shape Modeling Software

Previous editions

Alexei Sourin
Computer Graphics:From a Small Formula to Cyberworlds
2nd edition, ISBN 9810677030
PearsonPrentice Hall, Singapore, 385 pages, 2006

 

Typos in the book

 

Alexei Sourin
Computer Graphics: From a Small Formula to Cyberworlds
1st edition, ISBN 9810675518
Pearson Prentice Hall, Singapore, 362 pages, 2005

 

Typos in the book

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Alexei Sourin
Computer Graphics: From a Small Formula to Virtual Worlds
ISBN 9812447431
PearsonPrentice Hall, Singapore, 280 pages, 2004, 2005

Typos in the 2004 print of the book

Typos in the 2005 print of the book

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