A standard approach to producing documents that include illustrations consists in typesetting text with specialized typesetting software (such as TEX) and inserting illustrations created with different, equally specialized software. To better integrate the illustrations into the typeset page, it would be nice to be able to produce or modify them directly with the typesetting software. Drawing g...

With the fast development of Visualization Technology, massive data need to be converted into intuitive graphics in more and more areas, such as in oil and geological exploration fields. In order to achieve highly efficient visualization of 2D seismic data, the following important methods are employed to improve the speed of rendering. The first method is to process massive data in point coordi...

1 Joaquin A. Vila, Illinois State University, Applied Computer Science Department 5150, Normal, IL 61790-5150 [email protected] Janet D. Hartman, Illinois State University, Applied Computer Science Department 5150, Normal, IL 61790-5150 [email protected] Abstract -The introduction of high speed computers with excellent graphic rendering capabilities and software that takes advantage of...

Texture mapping has traditionally been used to add realism to computer graphics images. In recent years, this technique has moved from the domain of software rendering systems to that of high performance graphics hardware. But texture mapping hardware can be used for many more applications than simply applying diffuse patterns to polygons. Wesurvey applications of texturemapping including simpl...

In order to realize the systematic planning for teaching demonstration, this article proposed a teaching demonstration system based on .Net. The system adopted the techniques of Windows forms and serialization, Windows tree controls and the type and level of algorithm, component interface, advanced realization of windows graphics device interface, graphics drawing application programming interf...

To see is to believe. A picture is often worth a thousand words in everyday communication settings. A graphical representation actually “talks” in such communication, integrated with some other representation systems like spoken language. Because of its power, however, a graphical representation can affect the way people grasp a target situation it describes. This paper presents an empirical in...

A hundred years ago officers entering the Royal Navy took an exam where they had to draw a mouse-trap. At the time there was much discussion, and some despair, about competence, and about teaching. For amateurs, drawing manuals provided instructions on how to render a still life in 3D, or draw a running figure, tasks that would now be effortless given current software. Today much debate about d...