Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!prestonm From: prestonm@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Martin Preston) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: phigs/phigs+ references Keywords: phigs phigs+ Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 08:53:10 GMT References: <1991Mar20.013929.7036@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar21.024352.18147@dsd.es.com> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 38 In <1991Mar21.024352.18147@dsd.es.com> rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes: >press. Try giving some of the major technical publishing houses >(Springer-Verlag, Wiley, Addison-Wesley, etc.) a call and see what >they say. >There are at least 2 books on PHIGS coming out. Last year at SIGGRAPH90 >both Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall said they would have books out by >the end of the year... Prentice Hall now says "very soon". Addison >Wesley is a little more specific: first week of March in UK and first >week of April in the US. The title will be " A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO >PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS" >I've heard rumors of rumors of two others, but nothing specific. It >would be great to hear about any others coming out... As far as i'm aware the 'Practical Introduction' book is out in the UK at the moment,as it was written by several guys here at Manchester. I don't have any numbers or anything but try looking out for a mainly white hardback book,with several film style strips running across it with various stills in the movie cells. The authors are... T.Howard W.T.Hewitt R.Hubbold K.M.Wyrwas I'll remain tactfully silent about the quality of it as one of them is currently my supervisor. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | " Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon | | this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic | | greeting. Speak i charge you.." - Macbeth,Act I,Scene III |