[comp.graphics] Textbook for graphics wanted

barad@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) (02/06/89)

I would like to find some good textbooks on computer graphics.
Specifically, I am interested in image formation/rendering, fractal
geometry, and graphics environments (X-windows).  I doubt I will find
these 3 topics in the same book(s), but I'm interested in just what
books are being used as textbooks in many graphics classes.  I know
about SIGGRAPH proceedings and about some IEEE tutorials on Graphics.

If I get enough replies, I post a summary.  Thanks in advance.


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Herb Barad	[Signal & Image Processing Laboratory]
		[Electrical Engineering Dept. - Tulane Univ.]
INTERNET:	barad@ee.tulane.edu
USENET:		barad@bourbon.uucp

waynec@lion.cis.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Carlson) (02/07/89)

In article <133@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu> barad@bourbon.UUCP (Herb Barad) writes:
 >I would like to find some good textbooks on computer graphics.
 >Specifically, I am interested in image formation/rendering, fractal
 >geometry, and graphics environments (X-windows).  I doubt I will find
 >these 3 topics in the same book(s), but I'm interested in just what
 >books are being used as textbooks in many graphics classes.  I know
 >about SIGGRAPH proceedings and about some IEEE tutorials on Graphics.
 >
 >If I get enough replies, I post a summary.  Thanks in advance.
 >
 >
 >-- 
 >Herb Barad	[Signal & Image Processing Laboratory]
 >		[Electrical Engineering Dept. - Tulane Univ.]
 >INTERNET:	barad@ee.tulane.edu
 >USENET:		barad@bourbon.uucp

Take a close look at 

Anderson and Burton, "Computer Graphics Curricula:A Survey of PhD
Granting Departments", Computer Graphics, V22,#2, Apr 88, pp94
for a discussion of courses and textbooks used.

We use Berger for our Intro course and Rogers for our 2nd course;
our Upper level courses use the IEEE Tutorial on Image Synthesis
and Geometric Modeling by Mortenson.