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From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John Forbes Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Foley, vanDam, Feiner, Hughes book Pictures
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Date: 20 Jul 90 00:17:26 GMT
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In article <11787@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>Is figure 5.6 really figure 5.8 and
>figure 5.7 really figure 5.6 and
>figure 5.8 really figure 5.7?
>

OOPS--Yes, your renumbering is correct. Thanks for catching it. 

>
>Mathematically and algorithmically, I think this book will be great for
>out undergraduate and 1st graduate course in graphics.  

Thank you.

>                                                         I wish
>some of the systems references were a little more up to date.
>i.e.  Not much on the X window system (especially Interviews).  Microsoft
>windows is hardly mentioned (is it?).
>

It's true that not too many of the details of the X window system are
discussed, and Microsoft windows may not even get a mention. But the general
topic of window managers, and even some details on how to implement them,
*are* covered. It's tough to know what to say about such things, except "There's
this system out there. The books that describe it are longer than this one. If
you really care, you'll go read them." Oh, it's true we should have said
something about the networking aspects of X, but then where do you stop? We
were already at 1200 pages and several years behind scheduled publication 
date. You can't imagine the agony of watching people in comp.graphics ask,
repeatedly, "When is the new edition of Foley and van Dam coming out?"

-John Hughes