Leendert Ammeraal Pengarang

This edition continues the main theme of the first edition, that is, graphics programming in Java, with plenty of source code available to the reader. The new edition has, however, been updated as follows: 1) The contents of some chapters have been updated, as a result of the authors’ years of classroom experience and recent feedback from our students. 2) An instructor’s manual has been created to include lecture slides and answers to exercise questions. 3) Chapter 8 has been replaced by a new chapter covering the topic of fractals. 4) A beta version of a companion software package has been added, which demonstrates the working of different algorithms and concepts introduced in the book. 5) More illustrative examples have been included in several chapters and various minor errors in the first edition have been corrected. Over the past few years, Java has evolved into more powerful programming environments. The most notable development related to computer graphics is its support for 3D graphics. Many application examples illustrated in this book could be readily implemented using Java 3D without any understanding of the internal working of the implementation, which we consider undesirable for computer science students. We therefore believe that this textbook continues to serve as an indispensable introduction to the foundation of computer graphics, on which many application program interfaces (APIs) and graphics libraries could be developed, and more importantly, how they are developed.