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From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Foley and van Dam book II
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Date: 18 Jul 90 18:22:37 GMT
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In article <25553@mimsy.umd.edu> rmr@tove.cs.umd.edu (Randy M. Rohrer) writes:
>
>        The new edition of "Foley and van Dam" is available.
>I just received it directly from Addison Wesley last Thursday.
>It should be appearing in bookstores at any time.

It's here!

>It is very good, a complete re-write of the earlier version. 
       ^^^^ ^^^^
Agreed.  Although they obviously couldn't go into great detail on a lot
of things, they sure tried to cover (almost) everything!  

>            approx. 1200 pp., 21 chapters plus an
>            appendix which reviews mathematics for 
>            computer graphics.

It's _only_ 1174 pages... %( %)

A memorable specification:

   (on polygon interior conventions)
   "Another rule is the nonexterior rule... if we think of the curve
    as a fence, the interior is the region in which animals can be 
    penned up." [p. 965]

I'm having a little trouble implementing from their description %> ...
   
Is there an email address where readers can submit corrections?  On page
716, there are two references [FOUR88] and [FIUM89] that do not appear
in the bibliography at the end of the book.  I'm pretty sure that the
second is Fiume's book "The Mathematical Structure of Raster Graphics,"
but I'm not sure on the Fournier reference.

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