The Computer Graphics Companion offers a comprehensive collection
of articles written by selected specialists and spanning a wide
range of topics and applications in computer graphics.
It brings together all the articles related to computer graphics
included in the Encyclopedia of Computer Science along with further
material, unique to this companion volume. Additional articles on
colour and design are included as well professional profiles and
web resources.
Enhanced with a section of colour illustrations, the book gives
a general introduction to computer graphics, software, hardware,
design, colour and image processing and then focuses on key
application areas:
Entertainment ? covering areas such as animation, movies
and games
Science and engineering - including scientific visualisation,
biocomputing, medical imaging, diagnostic techniques, geographic
information systems and computer-aided design in engineering and
manufacturing
Other applications of computer graphics ? reviewing
diverse topics, such as virtual reality, multimedia, the internet,
desktop publishing and simulation
The book also features:
Autobiographical profiles by computer graphics professionals,
giving a personal insight into working in the field, some of the
practical aspects of their current work and their thoughts on the
future for graphics.
An extensive list of web sites for graphics organisations,
demonstration software and graphics hardware and software
suppliers
Authoritative but accessible, the Computer Graphics Companion is
an essential introduction to the field of computer graphics and its
applications.
Author Biography:
Jeffrey J. McConnell, Professor of Computer Science and
department chair, has been on the faculty of Canisius College,
Buffalo, since 1983 and is the author of the textbook Analysis
of Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (Jones &
Bartlett, 2001).
Anthony Ralston is an Academic Visitor in the Department
of Computing at Imperial College, London, and Professor Emeritus in
the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, which he founded in 1967 and chaired until 1980.
He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on computer
science and related areas, and a frequent contributor to leading
books and journals in the field. He has served as president of the
American Federation for Information Processing Societies and the
Association for Computing Machinery. He is a recipient of the
ACM?s Distinguished Service Award, a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
Edwin D. Reilly is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
at the State University of New York at Albany. He served as the
first chairman of its computer science department when founded in
1967 and as the first director of its computing center in 1965.
Prior to that time, he served in computer management positions at
the General Electric Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady,
NY. He began his career in computing at the National Security
Agency in Washington in 1955. He holds the Ph.D. in physics from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently president of his
consulting firm Cybernetic Information Systems. He is the
co-author of the textbooks Pascalgorithms (Houghton-Mifflin)
and VAX Assembly Language (Macmillan, US). He is a member of
the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computer Society,
the American Physical Society, the Mathematical Association of
America, Sigma Xi, and the America Association for the Advancement
of Science.
David Hemmendinger is Associate Professor of Computer
Science and department chair at Union College, Schenectady, New
York. He has also taught computer science at Wright State
University, Ohio. His interests include programming languages,
concurrent programming, and formal verification of hardware
designs. He began work in computer science in 1981, having
previously taught philosophy at the City University of New York,
and at Antioch and Kenyon Colleges. He has degrees from Harvard
(B.A.) and Stanford Universities (M.S. in mathematics), Yale (M.A.,
Ph.D. in philosophy) and Wright State University (M.S. in computer
science). He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the
Association for Computing Machinery, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma
Xi.
