Computer Graphics: Programming, Problem Solving, and Visual Communication

The materials that are linked from this page (whether the page is online or on CD) are designed to support an introductory computer graphics course that focuses on programming interactive computer graphics applications based on scene-graph modeling and a current graphics API. It emphasizes graphical problem solving and visual communication and is intended to be a sound introduction to computer graphics for computer science students, a course for a computational science program, or a service course for science, mathematics, and engineering students. A draft manuscript textbook for this course has been developed to support this approach. The manuscript is continually in development and the latest set of course materials may be found at the author’s online site . In addition to a graphics programming focus, the manuscript includes materials on visual communication and on science applications that are novel in an introductory course, and I hope you will find these of interest. The manuscript includes evaluation pages for both instructors and students, and whether you download the manuscript for your own course use or simply for your information, I would greatly appreciate your sending me your comments. I am glad to acknowledge especially the contributions of Dr. Michael J. Bailey of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and of Ken Brown, my student at CSU Stanislaus, as well as other students at CSU Stanislaus and San Diego State University, to these materials.

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