TRON Book

Even in the intro classes, I try to include SOME decent content (and more about the history than most of the students want to hear). I used to teach a computer graphics programming class. It wasn't very popular, since a lot of the students that signed up for it expected to be able to create commercial quality REAL TIME animated graphics without programming. Only a few of the best students understood the idea of creating primitives, Bressenham's algorithm, etc. It's also a struggle getting people to understand that animation consists of creating one frame at a time, NOT aiming a camera at the screen while a microcomputer renders images at 30 frames per second. Most of the SigGraph demo slides that I had were from the era of beginning to be able to map surface textures onto 3D perspective images. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com www.merritt.edu/~fcisin