This lecture note covers the following topics: Introduction to Graphics, Curves, Transformations, Coordinate Free Geometry, 3D Objects, Camera Models, Visibility, Basic Lighting and Reflection, Basic Ray Tracing, Radiometry and Reflection, Distribution Ray Tracing, Parametric Curves And Surfaces and Animation.
Quickly master AutoCAD 2008 using this practical guide—no matter your skill level. AutoCAD author and expert George Omura presents the basics of AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 and offers clear explanations, a task-based approach, and pages of real-world examples and exercises to make this thorough book more valuable and useful than ever.
Showing you how to understand many of the mathematical ideas used in computer animation, virtual reality, CAD, and other areas of computer graphics. In thirteen chapters you will rediscover - and hopefully discover for the first time a new way of understanding - the mathematical techniques required to solve problems and design computer programs for computer graphic applications....
