Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach With Opengl
By Edward Angel.
Description
This introductory text recognizes that beginners learn computer graphics more quickly by doing it. Taking a top-down approach, the book gets you started early writing interesting 3D graphics programs. Each chapter is built around a non-trivial application program. In this programming context, key principles and techniques are explained as needed and in increasing detail.To enable this approach, the book first describes an important application programmer's interface-OpenGL-a graphics library now available on most platforms, from high-end graphics workstations to PCs. This high-level in...
ISBN(s)
0201855712, 9780201855715