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  title info:
    title: Integrated Graphic and Computer Modelling
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Adrian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 685 p. online resource.
  abstract: The area of Computer Graphics has evolved over time and its original role in communication, design, entertainment and art has broadened to include a wide spectrum of applications including education, computer games, films and videos, medical applications, geographic information systems and much else besides. There has long been a need for a comprehensive book that provides a coherent introduction to this fast-moving area, and Adrian Thomas's beautifully illustrated and well-written work does just that. Full colour throughout, the book explores programming language developments from machine code to more natural language forms, and the basic display operations and commands needed to create effective computer graphic systems. As the visual presentation of real and virtual environments becomes more and more the norm in application systems, a clear understanding of the theory that underpins these techniques is required of all students and practitioners studying and working on large computer systems. A particular example is provided showing how interactively building a graphic model of a system can be used to construct a matching computer model of the system capable of demonstrating its behavior. This illustrates a powerful new range of design and simulation tools that arise from integrating computer and graphic modeling schemes. Containing detailed programming examples along with an exploration of alternative algorithms to illustrate design options when building computer systems, this book provides a unique introduction to the complexities of integrating graphic and computer modeling and will be welcomed by all those interested in the way computers can be programmed to create images and environments.
  table of contents: Models: Language, Graphic, Analogue, Scale, Mathematical & Computer Models -- Computer Languages: & Java Programming -- Programming Development Environment for Graphics -- Conditional Action-Spatial Searching & Problem Solving -- Display System and Hardware Programming Primitives -- Computer Hardware and Low Level Machine Language Programming -- Intermediate, Assembler Language Programming Macro Expansions, and Expression Translation -- Higher Level Languages – Translation, Interpretation and Scripting -- Primitive, Raster- Infill Operations: Line Interpolation -- Area Fill, Masks, Circles and Thick Line Interpolation -- Parametric Line Interpolation & Keyframe Infill “Inbetweening” Film Animation -- Geometry, Algebras, Co-ordinate Systems, and Transformations -- Spatial Relationships Overlap & Adjacency: Point to Line to Area -- Spatial Relationships Overlap & Adjacency Polygon on Polygon -- Spatial Relationships Overlap & Adjacency Rectangle-Rectangle Window on Window -- GUI: Graphic User Interfaces: Control Design Animation & Simulation Systems.
  note: by Adrian Thomas.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: User interfaces (Computer systems)
  subject:
    topic: Computer graphics
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Graphics
  subject:
    topic: Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
  classification: T385
  classification: 006.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781848001794
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-179-4
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