The History of Visual Magic in Computers How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR /

• Main Author: Peddie, Jon. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia systems.; Computer graphics.; Computer aided design.; Architectural design.; Science (General).; Engineering design.; Computer Science.; Computer Graphics.; Graphic Design.; Popular Science, general.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Engineering Design.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4932-3

If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuits behaved liked people and wondered, How do they do that? , �then youve experienced the magic of 3D worlds generated by a...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Rae Earnshaw
• Foreword by Mark Fihn
• Preface
• Introduction: The History of 3D in Computers
• Getting to 3D
• Developing the 3D Software
• Developing the Applications
• Developing the Computer
• Development of 3D Controllers
• Development of Displays: Getting to See 3D
• Stereoscopic 3D in Computers
• The Future
• Index.