In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs--existing and future--as a whole. Clear structure, numerous historical references, and hundreds of illustrations make this framework both accessible to the nontechnical professional and broadening for the experienced computer-aided designer. The book will be especially valuable to anyone who is ready to expand their work in CAD beyond production drafting systems. The new second edition adds chapters one merging technologies, such as the Internet, but the book's original content is as valid as ever. Thousands of design students and practitioners have made this book a standard.
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In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs—existing and future—as a whole. Clear structure, numerous historical references, and hundreds of illustrations make this framework both accessible to the nontechnical professional and broadening for the experienced computer-aided designer. The book will be especially valuable to anyone who is ready to expand their work in CAD beyond production drafting systems. The new second edition adds chapters one merging technologies, such as the Internet, but the book’s original content is as valid as ever. Thousands of design students and practitioners have made this book a standard.
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William J. Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Malcolm McCullough is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University School of Design.
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spatial set operations, room polygons, virtual design studios, spatial clashes, computer drafting system, digital design media, drafting systems, file translators, voxel representations, traditional drafting, bitmapped images, geometric database, sweep operations, translation paths, wireframe model, construction plane, viewing parameters, synthesized image, technical drafting, design exploration, regulating lines, task controllers, task automation, inexpensive personal computers, solid modelers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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New York, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Hong Kong, John Wiley, United States, Los Angeles, World Wide Web, Andries van Dam, Plan Proportion, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Height of Rectangle, Principles of Computer-Aided Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Addison Wesley, Computing Surveys, Daniel Thalmann, Digital Image Processing, John Hughes, Oxford University Press, Patrick Purcell, The Electronic Design Studio, Total Int, University of California Press New!
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