warner@orca.UUCP (Ken Warner) (04/12/85)
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Can any one give me a pointer to books on solids modeling and/or
ray tracing? What books are the "bibles" in this field?
Ken Warner
...{ucbvax,decvax}!tektronix!orca!warnerken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (04/16/85)
In article <1441@orca.UUCP> warner@orca.UUCP (Ken Warner) writes: >Can any one give me a pointer to books on solids modeling and/or >ray tracing? What books are the "bibles" in this field? One of the bibles for computational geometry is Faux and Pratt's book, called "Computation Geometry for Design and Manufacture", published in the U.K. by Ellis Horwood Limited, and in the U.S. by John Wiley & Sons. It is more oriented towards surfaces than solids, though. -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,hplabs,nsc,seismo,spar}!turtlevax!ken ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPA
lmiller@ucla-cs.UUCP (04/20/85)
Faux and Pratt's book is not very easy reading. John Wiley has just come out with a super new book, very thorough, on solid modelling. Unfortunately, the author's name escapes me, but I reviewed a pre-publication version about 18 months ago, and I recommend it highly. Larry Miller UCLA Computer Science Dept.
mouli@cavell.UUCP (Bopsi ChandraMouli) (04/23/85)
The following reference may be of interest to you. I am posting the abstract of the papert too so that you can decide(depending on your needs and interests) whether it is worth searching for. Geometric Modelling : a survey by A. Baer, C. Eastman and M. Henrion. Computer Aided Design volume 11 page 253-272. "Computer programs are being developed to aid the design of physical systems ranging from individual mechanical parts to entire buildings or ships. These efforts highlight the importance of computer models of three deminsional objects. Issues and alternatives in geometric modelling are discussed and illustratred with comparisons of 11 existing modelling systems, in particular coherently- structured models of polyhedral solids where the faces may be either planar or curved. 4 catogories of representations are distinguished: data representations that store full, explicit shape information; definition languages with which the user can enter descriptions of shapes into the system and which can constitute procedural represenations; special subsets of the information produced by application programs; and conceptual models that define the logical structure of the data representation and/or definition language." Bopsi Chandramouli ihnp4!alberta!cavell!mouli