Jim Blinn's Corner: Dixty Pixels (Paperback)

"All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion." Jim Blinn
Jim Blinn is Back
Dirty Pixels is Jim's second compendium of articles selected from his award-winning column, "Jim Blinn's Corner," in "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications." Here he addresses topics in image processing and pixel arithmetic and shares the tricks he's uncovered through years of experimentation.
Writing in the inimitable, engaging style for which he's famous, Jim's easy-to-understadn explanations and solutions make abstract concepts accessible to a broad audience. Dirty Pixels is an invaluable resource for anyone in the computer graphics field.
Teapots and More
Jim's contributions to computer graphics include the Voyager Fly-by animations of space missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus; "The Mechanical Universe," a 52-part telecourse of animated physics; and the computer animation of Carl Sagan's PBS series "Cosmos." Jim developed many graphics techniques now in widespread use, among them bump mapping, environment mapping, and blobby modeling."

General

Imprint:	Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	Jim Blinn
Dimensions:	235 x 187 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-55860-455-1
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia Promotions
LSN:	1-55860-455-3
Barcode:	9781558604551

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