Morphs, Mallards, and Montages

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Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook In 1996 I started writing a regular column for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. This book is my third collection of those columns, bringing together three year’s worth of articles. They’ve all been updated and revised for this gathering, and many chapters include new material that wasn’t able to make it into the columns because of space restrictions. Because I believe in the power of visuals as well as the power of words, the book contains over 900 figures! The book was beautifully produced and published by AK Peters.

The idea that graphics is fun is reflected in the book’s subtitle, Computer-Aided Imagination. In this collection, we look at a whole new batch of fun and interesting topics related to computer graphics. They include how to reconstruct documents from the strips produced by a shredder, how to build your own digital loom for weaving new textiles, how to write a program to help you design and build your own real pop-up cards, and even how to understand how crop circles are made, and how to go out and make your own formation for real!

The cover is a notebook-style collage of some illustrations from different chapters, evoking the idea of a notebook.

Here’s the table of contents:

  • Preface
  • 1 Designing and Building Pop-Up Cards
  • 2 Reconstructing Shredded Documents
  • 3 Ducks and Waves
  • 4 Curious Pictures
  • 5 Digital Weaving and Building A Digital Loom
  • 6 Image Search and Replace
  • 7 Venn Diagrams for Lots of Variables
  • 8 Metamorphosis in 3D
  • 9 Everyday Computer Graphics
  • 10 Fonts Fonts Fonts!
  • 11 Spirograph Unleashed
  • 12 The Geometry of Crop Circles
  • Index

The book is available at all your favorite booksellers, such as Amazon.