The Computer Graphics Companion offers a comprehensive collection of articles written by selected specialists and spanning a wide range of topics in computer graphics.  Illustrated with an extensive color section, the book covers:

• The basics of gaphic software and hardware
• Entertainment topics such as animation, movies and games
• Mathematics, science, and engineering topics, including scientific visualization, medical applications and computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing.
• Other applications of computer graphics in the arts, the World Wide Web, and desktop publishing
• A comprehensive list of web sites for graphic organizations, demonstration software and graphics hardware and software vendors

The book also features autobiographical profiles written by computer graphics professionals, giving a personal insight into what it takes to work in the field and some of the practical applications of graphics concepts.

Authoritative but accessible, the Computer Graphics Companion is an essential introduction to the field of computer graphics and its applications.

Thoroughly revised for a one-semester course, this well-known and highly regarded book is an outstanding text for undergraduate discrete mathematics. It has been updated with new or extended discussions of order notation, generating functions, chaos, aspects of statistics, and computational biology. Written in a lively, clear style that talks to the reader, the book is unique for its emphasis on algorithmics and the inductive and recursive paradigms as central mathematical themes. It includes a broad variety of applications, not just to mathematics and computer science, but to natural and social science as well. A manual of selected solutions is available for sale to students; see sidebar. A complete solution manual is available free to instructors who have adopted the book as a required text.