Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL [Hardcover]

Georg Glaeser (Author), Hans-Peter Schröcker (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387952721 | ISBN-13: 978-0387952727 | Publication Date: July 31, 2002 | Edition: 2002

This Handbook fills the gaps of Open Geometry by explaining new methods, techniques and various examples. One its main strengths is that it enables the reader to learn about Open Geometry by working through examples. In addition, it includes a complete compendium of all the Open Geometry classes and their methods. Open Geometry will be of great attraction to those who want to start graphics programming.

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From the reviews: "The present book is a comprehensive reference on the practice of geometrics and graphics programming. It is based on and utilizes the industry-standard open-source graphics API, Open GL®. … This handbook is written for both beginners and advanced OPEN GEOMETRY users, using any standard computer operating system … . They will learn how to use these methods and classes and apply them in theoretical and practical applications … as well as create their own easily programmed extensions using C++ language." (G. Ciobanasu, Zentralblatt MATH, Issue 1008, 2003)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 696 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2002 edition (July 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387952721
• ISBN-13: 978-0387952727
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,213,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Space Geometry made easy, November 25, 2005

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Stephen Cray (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL (Hardcover)

The 700 page book is worth reading: It's actually a geometry book that tells you about many geometric details which you might never have heard about before: I did not know, e.g., about a quite useful developable surface named "wobbler" or "oloid", and how one can fold and unfold such surfaces via computer. The book comes with a ready to use software. The user writes little C++-programs that are linked to the library. The code of the librabry is just there to be compiled, and is not very well documented. However, it need not, since the user should only focus on his oder her part. Therefore, templets are provided that can be modified (learning by doing). Within a few hours, one is familiar with the system.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cool geometry book, November 10, 2005

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Thomas Redford "Thread" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL (Hardcover)

Open Geometry is a collection of C++ classes making it easy to program advanced three-dimensional graphics. The classes correspond to geometrical objects like spheres, conics, "path curves", b-spline surfaces etc. Open Geometry is distributed as source code, so you get, e.g., a project to open in Microsoft Visual C++. You can add your own source code to that project (or a copy of it). What makes the book so interesting, are the given 101 well-explained examples. Together with a large number of instructives figures, they build up a geometry book about kinematics, projective geometry, differential geometry etc. This seems to be a missing link between theory and programming practice. I recommend it!!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money - a very bad book, March 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL (Hardcover)

Don't waste your money. This is some of the most unorganized, poorly commented code I've ever seen. Some of the code is in German! The book is in English so silly me, I expected the code to be use English words for variable and function names. An example of their lack of attention to detail is the first example in the book (circumcircle) is not even in try.cpp. Yes, I fixed the example myself, but this is an example of the author's sloppiness. How about file names like a.cpp, b.cpp, c.cpp, etc! This was an ... waste of time for me.