Computer Graphics Books

Most recent update : Saturday, 16-Aug-2003 03:58:49 MEST

I will introduce some CG books.

• Foley, van Dam, Feiner and Hughes: ``Computer Graphics: Principals and practice 2nd. Ed.,'' Addison wesley, 1990 (revised 1995), Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201848406
  • Covered Area: General.
  • It is good starting point to get in the computer graphics area. (I heard once there is translation to Japanese of this book.) However, but now (2002) this book becomes a little bit old and you should complete some important recent technologies. Missing hierarchical radiosity method, Photon mapping, Image based rendering, many subdivision and parameterization techniques, etc. However, this is a classic and good one.
• Andrew S. Glassner (editor), ``An Introduction to Ray Tracing,'' 1989, Academic Pr; ISBN: 0122861604
  • Covered Area: Ray tracing (Global illumination)
  • This book is good for introduction to computer graphics and also good for someone want to go farther. If you want to write a ray-tracer, this helps good.
• Nakamae Eihachirou and Nishita Tomoyuki, ``3D computer graphics,'' 1986, ISBN4-7856-3064-7 (Japanese)
  • Covered Area: General
  • If you can read Japanese, this book is recommended. Personally, this is one of the best 3DCG book written in Japanese. If you read this and want to see more, read other (sorry but usually no way) English CG books.
• Michael F. Cohen and John R. Wallace, ``Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis,'' Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN: 0121782700
  • Covered Area: Radiosity (Global illumination)
  • If you are in Radiosity area, this and Sillion's book are good starting point.
• François X. Sillion and Claude Puech, Radiosity and Global Illumination, 1994, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; ISBN: 1558602771
  • Covered Area: Radiosity (Global illumination)
  • If you are in Radiosity area, this and Cohen's book are good starting point. If you see this author's name as Franois, set your browser's `charactor set' to ISO-8859-2.