Morphs, Mallards, and Montages: Computer-Aided Imagination

by Andrew Glassner

Overview

This book is for everyone who's interested in computer graphics and how it can take us on exciting journeys powered by imagination and a love of discovery and invention. Each chapter investigates a unique topic and gives you the tools to continue that exploration on your own. Examine the possibilities of: - Pop-up books and cards - Reconstructing shredded documents - Crop circles - Weaves and Tartans - Morphing images and much more! Browse and enjoy the array of visual ideas or roll up your sleeves and write your own code.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568812311
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/23/2004
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Andrew Glassner Glassner created and edited the Graphics Gems series and the book An Introduction to Ray Tracing. He is also the author of the two-volume text Principles of Digital Image Synthesis. Glassner has written a regular column for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications since 1996. Those columns have been collected in three books, Andrew Glassner's Notebook, Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook, and Morphs, Mallards, and Montages.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Chapter 1 Interactive Pop-Up Card Design. Chapter 2 Picking Up The Pieces. Chapter 3 Duck!. Chapter 4 Getting The Picture. Chapter 5 Digital Weaving. Chapter 6 Image Search and Replace. Chapter 7 Venn And Now. Chapter 8 DMorph. Chapter 9 Everyday Computer Graphics. Chapter 10 About Face. Chapter 11 Rolling Your Own. Chapter 12 Synthetic Cubism. Chapter13 Crop Art.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Serious CG professionals and researchers have long admired the work of Andrew Glassner, whose columns have graced the pages of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications for nearly a decade. In this full-color book, he’s revised, expanded, and updated his favorites. The result: a wonderfully imaginative tour of advanced CG techniques and algorithms -- and a look at how one of the field’s most interesting minds goes about solving difficult, intriguing problems.

Glassner’s range is formidable: His projects range from pop-up cards to 3D morphing, typography metrics to Spirograph-like pictures, synthetic cubism to visual logic, crop circles to digital weaving. His knowledge -- about CG and the rest of the world -- is deep. And his enthusiasm is extremely contagious. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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