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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: nice little new graphics book
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Date: 11 Sep 90 17:02:19 GMT
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In article <1990Sep8.023346.1099@techbook.com= jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
=In article <2064@med.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Richard Ottolini) writes:
=>"The Algorithm Beauty of Plants" by Prusinkiewicz and Lindmayer.
=>A collection of algorithms for botanical modeling, programs and pretty pictures.
=>The algorithms are mostly of the fractal variety.
=
=Lots of color plates and a good bibliography.  The first chapter explains
=L (for Lindenmayer) systems and then goes on to model trees, plant organs,
=cellular layers, etc.  There's a chapter on the fractal aspects of plants and
=a little appendix on the lab programs they used, including a nice shot of a
=Silicon Graphics screen.  I suspect that a lot of these may end up as holiday
								       ^^^^^^^
=presents.

I hope that is not a negative comment.
There is a whole slew of new computer graphics books that try to survey the
domain.
It was refreshing to see one that concentrates on a small aspect, and does so
in a thorough and beautiful manner.  (I did get a little bored only seeing
L-system mathematics.)
The first fractal graphics books were like this until they exhausted the subject.

I hope to see other monographs like this about narrow, artistic subjects in
graphics.