《计算机图形学》与大多数传统的计算机图形学教材不同，它仅简要介绍交互式计算机图形学方面的基本知识，主要侧重于介绍计算机图形学在数学及其他科学领域的应用，解决实际问题。《计算机图形学》按照计算机图形学的传统顺序介绍视觉交流、视图变换和投影处理、建模、绘制、光照、着色处理，以及OpenGL API如何实现基本概念和技术，使学生理解并学会使用图形API实现图形操作，为观察者创造有效的图像。

本书介绍三维的计算机图形学，特别强调基本原理和计算机图形学中数学。它包含有描述如何使用跨OpenGL平台的编程环境，还含有光线跟踪软件包的源代码（相应的软件可从本书的网站免费下载）。 本书内容涉及全面处理变换和视图，光照和明暗模型，插值与均值，贝塞尔贡线和B样条曲线，射线追踪和福射，射线交点测试，也涉及不包含深度的纹理映射和色彩理论。本书还涵盖动画片制作，包括四元组、定向以及逆向运动学。在附录中复习矢量和矩阵方面数学知识。 本书读者对象是高年级大学生或低年级研究生，也可自学。需要具有计算和矢量的基本知识。OpenGL编程部分要求C或C++编程知识。本书涉及OpenGL的一些重要特性，可以与其他OpenGL编程的书联合使用。

Includes Complete Coverage of the OpenGL(r) Shading Language! Today's OpenGL software interface enables programmers to produce extraordinarily high-quality computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, color images, and programmable shaders. OpenGL(r) Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL(r), Version 4.3, Eighth Edition, has been almost completely rewritten and provides definitive, comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Shading Language. This edition of the best-selling "Red Book" describes the features through OpenGL version 4.3. It also includes updated information and techniques formerly covered in OpenGL(r) Shading Language (the "Orange Book"). For the first time, this guide completely integrates shader techniques, alongside classic, functioncentric techniques. Extensive new text and code are presented, demonstrating the latest in OpenGL programming techniques. OpenGL(r) Programming Guide, Eighth Edition, provides clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and techniques, including processing geometric objects with vertex, tessellation, and geometry shaders using geometric transformations and viewing matrices; working with pixels and texture maps through fragment shaders; and advanced data techniques using framebuffer objects and compute shaders. New OpenGL features covered in this edition include * Best practices and sample code for taking full advantage of shaders and the entire shading pipeline (including geometry and tessellation shaders) * Integration of general computation into the rendering pipeline via compute shaders * Techniques for binding multiple shader programs at once during application execution * Latest GLSL features for doing advanced shading techniques * Additional new techniques for optimizing graphics program performance

Computer animation and graphics--once rare, complicated, and comparatively expensive--are now prevalent in everyday life from the computer screen to the movie screen. Interactive Computer Graphics is the only introduction to computer graphics text for undergraduates that fully integrates OpenGL(R) and emphasizes application-based programming. Using C and C++, the top-down, programming-oriented approach allows for coverage of engaging 3D material early in the course so students immediately begin to create their own 3D graphics. Low-level algorithms (for topics such as line drawing and filling polygons) are presented after students learn to create graphics. This book is suitable for undergraduate students in computer science and engineering, for students in other disciplines who have good programming skills, and for professionals.

《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》对OpenGL以及OpenGL实用函数库进行了全面而又权威的介绍，素有“OpenGL红宝书”之誉。《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》的上一个版本覆盖了到OpenGL 2.1版的内容。本版涵盖了OpenGL 3.0和3.1的最新特性。《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》以清晰的语言描述了OpenGL的功能以及许多基本的计算机图形技巧，例如创建和渲染3D模型、从不同的透视角度观察物体、使用着色、光照和纹理贴图使场景更加逼真等。另外，《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》还深入探讨了许多高级技巧，包括纹理贴图、抗锯齿、雾和大气效果、NURBS、图像处理子集等。此外，《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》还对一些重要的主题进行了讨论，例如提高性能、OpenGL扩展以及跨平台技术等。《Open GL编程指南(原书第7版)》内容详实，讲解生动，图文并茂，是OpenGL程序员的绝佳编程指南。