Graphics Gems V (Macintosh Version) (Graphics Gems - Macintosh) (No. 5) [Hardcover]

Alan W. Paeth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 23, 1995 | Series: Graphics Gems - Macintosh (Book 5)

Graphics Gems V is the newest volume in The Graphics Gems Series.<$> It is intended to provide the graphics community with a set of practical tools for implementing new ideas and techniques, and to offer working solutions to real programming problems. These tools are written by a wide variety of graphics programmers from industry, academia, and research. The books in the series have become essential, time-saving tools for many programmers.

Latest collection of graphics tips in The Graphics Gems Series written by the leading programmers in the field.
Contains over 50 new gems displaying some of the most recent and innovative techniques in graphics programming.
Includes gems covering ellipses, splines, Bezier curves, and ray tracing.
Disk included containing source code from the gems available in both IBM and Macintosh versions.

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About the Author

Alan W. Paeth is a professor of computer science at Okanagan University College in British Columbia. Previously, he was a research scientist specializing in VLSI technology at Xerox PARC. The principle architect of the first operational Pixelplanes silicon, he also fabricated the first Berkeley RISC and SGI Graphics Engine chips. His degrees span three calendar decades and three fields: Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 438 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; Har/Dis edition (May 23, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 012543457X
• ISBN-13: 978-0125434577
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fifth and last in the classic series, May 30, 2000

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This review is from: Graphics Gems V (Macintosh Version) (Graphics Gems - Macintosh) (No. 5) (Hardcover)

I'm the archivist for the free Graphics Gems code base on the web. I do it for free, because this code is so valuable. Others think so, too: there is an average of 100 hits a day on the site. Go look at the online list of what's in this volume to see if it's for you.

Highlights (for me) include polygon/cube intersection testing, a good polygon triangulator, and an entire z-buffering library.

The Mac version just has a different disk in the back - better is to get the code online, which has various bug fixes and improvements.