Chapter 2 An Overview of Computer Graphics for Visualization
Alain Fournier and John Buchanan
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORMS the basis for much of scientific visualization. This chapter provides an overview of history and fundamentals of computer graphics for visualization. Topics covered include modeling, transformations, shading, pixel and volume display techniques, and graphics display architecture.
2.1 What is Computer Graphics?
As in every discipline, it is always interesting, if not necessarily fruitful, to ask what defines its content, and what makes it different from other close disciplines. In our case the question is "What Is Computer Graphics?" Another question immediately following is "Why Computer Graphics?"
The first question used ...
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