Calculus for Computer Graphics

• Main Author: Vince, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Computer graphics.; Computer science-Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Computer Graphics.; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science.

Students studying different branches of computer graphics have to be familiar with geometry, matrices, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curves and surfaces and as computer graphics software becomes increasingly sophisticated, calculus is also being used to resolve its associated problems....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Functions
• Limits and Derivatives
• Derivatives and Antiderivatives
• Higher Derivatives
• Partial Derivatives
• Integral Calculus
• Area Under a Graph
• Are Length and Parameterisation of Curves
• Surface Area
• Volume
• Vector-Valued Functions
• Tangent and Normal Vectors
• Continuity
• Curvature
• Conclusion. .