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From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John Forbes Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Books on graphics
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Date: 26 Sep 90 22:16:29 GMT
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In article <cavw=Xy00WAz00nlMs@andrew.cmu.edu> ah2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Aaron Noel Hughes) writes:
>Can anybody recommend several books on graphics to an beginner? Any and
>all replies welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Aaron
>
>"Life Kills"  -A Split Second

At the risk of tooting my own horn, I can recommend "Computer Graphics:
Principles and Practice," by Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes. The fourth
author has a particularly fine name, as you will notice :-). 
   I also recommend heartily the book Graphics Gems, recently much discussed
in this group. I am told that Hill's book on graphics (which is less
encyclopedic than ours) is a very nice introduction, particularly if you want
to be led by the hand through some things. You should also look at the
Frequently Asked Questions posting that appears monthly on this newsgroup
for other sources. 
-John Hughes