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From: markv@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering)
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Subject: Re: Graphics Texts etc.
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In article <101880023@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
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>What is a good text for teaching undergraduate computer graphics?  I am
>familiar with Foley and VanDam, and Neumann and Sproull.  Are there any
>others that I should consider?  I'd hate to be using Foley and VanDam
>just because it is the standard--it ought to also be the best.

Perhaps the newest Foley et. al., but certainly the old one was not the 
greatest, although it was perhaps standard.  I actually like Neumann and
Sproull better than the old Foley, but the new one is very good, and 
has many exercises which are illuminating.

Another books that I consider good is Watt's book ("Fundamentals of Computer
Graphics"?  I don't have it in front of me).  It covers raytracing and 
color and some other fairly non-mainstream topics pretty well, although the
pseudocode in the book is too abstract to be of any real use in implementation.
Still, its nice.

If I were to choose a text, I probably would use the Foley et. al., because
it is excellent and because everyone will want to have a copy ANYWAY if they
are in computer graphics.