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Graphics Gems IV IBM (Graphics Gems - IBM) (No. 4) (Hardcover)

by Paul Heckbert (Editor) "This part of the book contains five Gems on polygons and three on polyhedra..." (more)
Key Phrases: outcode calculation, cubical polygonization, exiting distance, Academic Press, Graphics Gems, New York (more...)

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Graphics Gems IV is the newest volume in the Graphics Gems series. All of the books in the series contain practical solutions for graphics problems using the latest techniques in the field. The books in this series have become essential, time saving tools
for many programmers. Volume IV is a collection of carefully crafted gems which are all new and innovative. All of the gems are immediately accessible and useful in formulating clean, fast, and elegant programs. The C programming language has been used for most of the program listings, although several of the gems have C++ implementations. *IBM version Includes one 3 1/2" high-density disk. System Requirements: 286 or higher IBM PC compatible, DOS 4.0 or higher

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Hardcover: 575 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition (January 15, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123361559
ISBN-13: 978-0123361554
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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This part of the book contains five Gems on polygons and three on polyhedra. Read the first page

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outcode calculation, cubical polygonization, exiting distance, fast convolver, implicit surface function, packed lookup tables, conflicted labels, contextual regions, int numverts, using neighborhood maps, friend int operator, isotropic scale factor, trivial accept, world luminance, clip limit, ideal tiles, four boundary curves, spherical degrees, crossings test, adaptation luminance, excess pixels, parametric cubic curves, adaptive histogram equalization, polygon test, edge preservation

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Academic Press, Graphics Gems, New York, Computer Science, Ken Shoemake, Paul Heckbert, Function Return, Andrew Glassner, Eric Haines, Ching-Kuang Shene, Graphics Interface, Greg Ward, Bilinear Coons Patch Image Warping, Christophe Schlick, Computer Society Press, Euler Angle Conversion, Joe Cychosz, Los Alamitos, Van Loan, Cambridge University Press, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Cornell University, Darwyn Peachey, Englewood Cliffs, John Peterson

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Computer Graphics Using Open GL (2nd Edition) by Francis S. Hill on 5 pages
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by James D. Foley on 5 pages
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press on 4 pages

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential if you can't find it in a library!, August 23, 1998

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This contains my favorite "Graphics Gem", an algorithm for testing whether a polyhedron intersects with a 3-D box or many boxes.

The full set of Graphics Gems is so expensive that I can't bring myself to buy it. Instead, I've looked up gems like that intersection test in a library copy of the book. If you don't have convenient access to it in a library, then you might as well dig up your credit card.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fourth in the classic series, May 30, 2000

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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 point in polygon testing (yeah, I wrote it), the arcball, matrix decomposition, an implicit surface polygonizer, a fast alternate Phong lighting model, and fast embossing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fourth in the classic series, May 31, 2000

By	Eric Haines (Ithaca, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Graphics Gems Iv/Book and Mac Version Disk (The Graphics Gems Series) (No.4) (Hardcover)

Highlights (for me) include point in polygon testing (yeah, I wrote it), the arcball, matrix decomposition, an implicit surface polygonizer, a fast alternate Phong lighting model, and fast embossing.

The Mac version simply has a different disk in it - better is to get the latest code online.

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