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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: Foley, vanDam, Feiner, Hughes book Pictures
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Date: 20 Jul 90 00:26:47 GMT
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This volume is nice.
The unevenness is due to the fact the text is somewhere between being an
edited collection of reprints (four main authors and a half dozen
additional contributing authors) and a single author textbook.

In article <11787@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>Is figure 5.6 really figure 5.8 and
>Mathematically and algorithmically, I think this book will be great for
>out undergraduate and 1st graduate course in graphics.  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?).

Due to space, the volume had to choose the examples that were the most
educationally innovative.  InterViews should have been covered.
XWindows and MWindows are engineering successes but aren't the most
innovative IMHO.
The book did have graphical examples that were generated with 1990 software,
particularly the RenderMan suite.