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From: jeffry@guinness.bu.edu (Jeffry Nimeroff)
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Subject: Ordering the Graphical Gems book (New Foley).
Keywords: GEMS, Comments about the new Foley...
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Date: 19 Jul 90 21:36:17 GMT
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Hello Readers,
	In volume 3.3 of the RT News, Eric Haines talks about his ordered
copy of Andrew Glassner's Graphics Gems book.  Does anyone have the ISBN
number for the book?  Can it be ordered from Academic Press like Andy's other
book (Intro to RT)?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
	As for the new Foley, it is quite good.  The readability was increased
by 100% over the first version.  I found the chapter on geometric
transformations
particularly interesting because of the ordering change of the multiplication
of the transformation matrix and the position vector.  The reasoning was quite
lucid.  It needed to be since the ordering reversed the notation used in
the previous version.  
	The only qualms I have are the quick overviews provided by the later
chapters and the inclusion of the math as an appendix.  The math in the
appendix should have its own early chapter and be expanded (a la F.S.
Hill).  The later chapters should be expanded at the expense of the
hardware and SGP chapters, or dropped in lieu of saving space.  

Jeffry Nimeroff
Computer Science Department
Boston University
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