Dr. Cornel K. Pokorny
Computer Science, Graphics and Cryptography
Dr. Pokorny received his Doctorate in Computer Science from Technical University in Vienna, Austria. His research areas are: computer graphics, object oriented design and web programming. Dr. Pokorny’s interests include computer graphics, photorealistic rendering, graphical user interfaces, abstract algebra and cryptography.
Dr. Pokorny is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at California Polytechnic State University, and is now Department Chair at International Technological University.
Before teaching at Cal Poly, he worked for 5 years as Assistant Professor at the Technical University in Vienna, spent one year in Mainland China in linguistic studies and worked for 3 years as a project manager in the German industry. There he developed one of the first Chinese Character Generators for an electronic ink jet printer.
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This book has a dual intent. One is to give an introduction to Computer Graphics by building it up from the basic principles and developing it to a level that represents a mastery of the essential knowledge. The other is to provide a thorough introduction to WebGL, the new powerful graphics API on the internet. WebGL is freely available on major browsers and serves us as the tool for realizing all developed principles and displaying the results. WebGL has the potential to become the main tool for producing high quality and real time computer graphics experience for users of the web. It will be the basis for the development of high level graphics packages that facilitate the creation of 2D and 3D animation, interactive games, visualization for education, and more. It can also be used by anyone who is interested in experimenting with CG – from the beginner to the advanced Computer Graphics professional. The appendix provides a little refresher of the required matrix and vector operations and some explanations of useful JavaScript constructs.
This textbook for an upper-division computer science course or reference for computer professionals provides users of graphic software with the principles behind the art and science. An object-oriented approach is used throughout. Examples are implemented in C++ source code, provided on diskette. Assumes a working knowledge of both college-level mathematics and a high-level programming language. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.