Graphics Gems V (IBM Version)

Preface

Alan Paeth,     Kelowna, British Columbia

As with previous volumes of the Graphics Gems series, this book ultimately serves a number of purposes. First, it provides a recognized, moderated forum of computer graphics dialogue, allowing emerging techniques to come to light before a large audience. Where possible, it places evolving methods within their historical context through its choice of entries and through interactions between the technical editor and each contributor. My emphasis on the latter, which took the form of providing citations lists, related articles, and copyediting for many authors, proved to be both a major undertaking and a rewarding task.

Second, the book serves as a means of dissemination and distribution of this ...