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Computers in Art, Design and Animation

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. John Lansdown

    1. Centre for Advanced Studies in Computer Aided Art and Design, Middlesex Polytechnic, Barnet, Herts, UK

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  2. Rae A. Earnshaw

    1. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  4. Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Computer Assistance to the Design Process

      • Philip Steadman
      Pages 153-162

    3. A Theory of Computer-Aided Design: A Possible Approach

      • John Lansdown
      Pages 163-172

    4. Linking Graphics and Inference

      • William Fawcett
      Pages 173-182

    5. Superquadric-based Symbolic Graphics for Design

      • Avon Huxor, Iain Elliot
      Pages 183-194

    6. Designer’s Toolkit

      • James Hennessey
      Pages 195-215

    7. Computer Graphics and Animation for Interior and Industrial Designers

      • Peter P. Comninos
      Pages 216-224
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About this book

The collection of papers that makes up this book arises largely from the joint activities of two specialist groups of the British Computer Society, namely the Displays Group and the Computer Arts Society. Both these groups are now more than 20 years old and during the whole of this time have held regular, separate meetings. In recent years, however, the two groups have held a joint annual meeting at which presentations of mutual interest have been given and it is mainly from the last two of these that the present papers have been drawn. They fall naturally into four classes: visualisation, art, design and animation-although, as in all such cases, the boundaries between the classes are fuzzy and overlap inevitably occurs. Visualisation The graphic potential of computers has been recognised almost since computing was first used, but it is only comparatively recently that their possibilities as devices for the visualisation of complex. and largely ab­ stract phenomena has begun to be more fully appreciated. Some workers stress the need to be able to model photographic reality in order to assist in this task. They look to better algorithms and more resolution to achieve this end. Others-Alan Mackay for instance-suggest that it is "not just a matter of providing more and more pixels. It is a matter of providing congenial clues which employ to the greatest extent what we already know.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Advanced Studies in Computer Aided Art and Design, Middlesex Polytechnic, Barnet, Herts, UK

    John Lansdown

  • University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Rae A. Earnshaw

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computers in Art, Design and Animation

  • Editors: John Lansdown, Rae A. Earnshaw

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4538-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96896-4Published: 23 August 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8868-8Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4538-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 306

  • Topics: Fine Arts, Computer Graphics

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