Morphs, mallards, and montages

Computer-aided imagination

Andrew Glassner

328 pages, parution le 29/09/2004

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Résumé

This book is for everyone who's interested in computer graphics and how it can take us on exciting journeys powered by imagination and a love of discovery and invention.

Each chapter investigates a unique topic and gives you the tools to continue that exploration on your own.

Examine the possibilities of:

Pop-up books and cards
Reconstructing shredded documents
Crop circles
Weaves and Tartans
Morphing images and much more!

Browse and enjoy the array of visual ideas or roll up your sleeves and write your own code.

L'auteur - Andrew Glassner

Andrew Glassner

works in the Next Media Group at Microsoft Research. He is the author of the two-volume bible, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, as well as the author of 3D Computer Graphics: A User's Guide for Artists and Designers, the creator of the Graphics Gems series, and the editor of An Introduction to Ray Tracing. He has served as chair of the Siggraph '94 Papers Committee, founding editor of Journal of Graphics Tools,and editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics. Recent work includes Chicken Crossing, a 3D animated short film, and Dead Air, an interactive game for group play on the Internet.
Andrew also enjoys writing fiction,playing jazz piano, painting,hiking, and kayaking. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sommaire

Introduction
Interactive pop-up card design
Picking up the pieces
Duck!
Getting the picture
Digital weaving
Image search and replace
Venn and now
DMorph
Everyday computer graphics
About face
Rolling your own
Synthetic cubism
Crop art
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	AK Peters
Auteur(s)	Andrew Glassner
Parution	29/09/2004
Nb. de pages	328
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	909g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781568812311
ISBN13	978-1-56881-231-1