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Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics—Concepts and Implementation

Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics: Concepts and Implementation

by Kelvin Sung, Peter Shirley and Steven Baer

2008 (571 pages)

ISBN:9781568812571

Providing conceptual and practical insights into a majority of the interactive graphics applications readers encounter daily, this text guides them in developing a software library that will support fast prototyping of moderately complex applications.

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Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics—Concepts and Implementation
Preface
List of Tutorials
Introduction
Part I - Elements of Interactive Programs
Chapter 1	-	Event-Driven Programming
Chapter 2	-	Working with GUI APIs
Chapter 3	-	A Simple Graphics Program
Chapter 4	-	Working with Graphics APIs
Chapter 5	-	The Model-View-Controller Architecture
Chapter 6	-	Applying to Real-World Applications
Part II - Essential Concepts—Presented in 2D
Chapter 7	-	Attributes and Behaviors of Primitives
Chapter 8	-	Transformation Operators
Chapter 9	-	Combining Transformation Operators
Chapter 10	-	Coordinate Systems
Chapter 11	-	Hierarchical Modeling
Chapter 12	-	Making the Applications Interesting
Part III - The Third Dimension
Chapter 13	-	A Simple 3D Application
Chapter 14	-	The Camera
Chapter 15	-	Working with the Camera
Chapter 16	-	Graphics Programming in 3D
Appendix A	-	Material and Illumination
Appendix B	-	Vectors
Appendix C	-	Summary of Library Version Changes