Computer Graphics - Softcover

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. This 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. This 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. Fundamentals are discussed in detail to help the students understand all the needed theory and the principles of computer graphics. It features extensive use of figures to convey even the simplest concepts. Chapter-end exercises include conceptual questions and programming problems.

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 engineering, 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 international conferences and workshops.