本书介绍了设计与使用计算机图形学系统所必须的基本原理，讨论了图形学系统硬、软件及其应用，列举了C语言描述了编程实例以展示图形学算法的实现及应用，探讨了PHIGS、PHIGS+、GKS以及其他图珍库的特征。与第1版相比，在反走样、分形及其他物体表示法、光线跟踪、样条曲线及表面、光昭模型、表面绘制法和计算机动画制作方面本书有较大扩充，新增：虚拟现实、图形学算法的并行实现、超二次曲面、BSP树、形状文法、粒子系统、基于物理的模型、科学计算可视化、商业可视化、分布式光线跟踪、辐射度、变形以及有益于对图形学应用的各种数学方法的探讨。 本书既可作为本科生和研究生的教材，也可作为图形学专业人员的参考书。

computer graphics remains one of the most exalting and rapidly growing eomputer fields. Since the appearance of the first edition of this book, computer graphics has now become a common element in user interfaces, data visualization, television commercials, motion pictures, and many, many other applications. Hardware devices and algorithms have been developed for improving the effectiveness, realism, and speed of picture generation, and the current trend in computer graphics is to incorporate more physics principles into three-dimensional graphics algorithms to better simulate the complex interactions between objects and the lighting environment. Software Standards Significant improve...