COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. IT REVOLUTION AND CAD AS AN IMPORTANT IT-APPLICATION AREA -- 3. PLANNING AND DESIGN AS A PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS AND VITAL ROLE OF COMPUTERS WITH GRAPHICS CAPABILITIES -- 4. UTILITY OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN CAD PERTINENT TO AEC SECTOR -- 4.1. Interactive Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling in AEC CAD -- 4.2. Computer Aided Planning and Design Analysis Using Graphics -- 4.2.1. Urban Development Planning Policy Analysis - A Descriptive Numeric-Graphic Model -- 4.2.2. Urban Planning And Design Analysis Using Numeric-Graphic Model -An Illustrative Example -- 4.3. Computer-Aided Design by Optimisation and Computer Graphics -- 4.3.1. Optimization In Structural Engineering-A Model For Least-Cost Design Of Reinforced Concrete Beam -- 4.3.2. An 'Application Software' For Integrated Computer Aided Optimal Design And Drafting In Structural Engineering (Reinforced Concrete Beam) -- 4.4. Architectural and Engineering Drafting -- 4.5. Participatory Urban Planning and Design Using Operations Research Tools for More Effective Urban Planning Policies -- 4.5.1. FAR & Built-Unit-Cost Interaction- Urban Management And Housing And Urban Development Planning And Design Policy Implications -- 4.5.2. Building-Rise-Density Interaction - Urban Management And Building And Urban Development Planning And Design Policy Implications -- 4.5.3. Need For Integrated Urban Management Approach And Urban Management Education -- 4.6. Integrated Computer Aided Design by Optimization -- 5. GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING IN PLANNING AND DESIGN IN AEC SECTOR -- 5.1. Application of Graphics Programming Using Autolisp - An Example -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX-A.

Subject: Computer-Aided Planning and Design by Optimization -- A Suggestive Course-Content: -- APPENDIX-B -- Chapter 2 THE USE OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP PROGRAM AS A PLANNING TOOL IN THE FIELD OF DEFORMITY CORRECTION SURGERY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FRONTAL PLANE MECHANICAL AXIS PLANNING -- I. Identify the Source of Malalignment -- 1. Mark The Centers Of The Hip, Knee And Ankle Joints -- 2. Mechanical Axis And MAD (Mechanical Axis Deviation) -- 3. Joint Orientation Lines -- 4. Joint Orientation Angles -- II. Identify the Level of the CORA -- 1. Tibial Mechanical Axis Planning -- 2. Femoral Mechanical Axis Planning -- III. Simulating Corrective Osteotomies -- 1. Open Wedge Osteotomy -- 2. Maquet Dome Osteotomy -- 3. Reversed Focal Dome Osteotomy -- 4. Closing Wedge Osteotomy -- CONCLUSION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING IN A SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MATERIAL AND METHODS -- II.1. DICOM File Parsing -- II.2. Image Segmentation and 3D- Visualization -- II.3. Spline Curve Generation -- II.4. Multi-Planar Reconstruction -- II.5. Spatial Search and 3D Distance Computing -- II.6. Cutting -- II.7. Volume Measurement -- II.8. Registration -- II.9. Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) -- III. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- IV. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 IMPROVEMENT PROPOSAL IN THE TREATMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN THE STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION IN INDUSTRIAL ARCHAELOGY -- ANALYSIS OF THE LEARNING OBJECTS -- Projection Systems -- Modeling Techniques -- Rendering -- Radiosity -- Scanline Rendering -- Ray casting -- Ray Tracing -- STRUCTURING OF LEARNING OBJECTS --.

-- -- -- CONCLUSION -- FUNDING -- REFERENCES -- Chapter5OPEN-SOURCEANDFREEWARETOOLSFORCOMPUTERGRAPHICS -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.UnderstandingLicenseIssues -- 2.1.What?Freeware,FreeSoftware,Open-SourceSoftware,Shareware-UnravelingtheSkein -- 2.2.Softwarelicenses -- 3.Open-SourceandFreewareToolsfortheGraphicsPipeline -- 3.1.ModelingandAnimationTools -- 3.2.2DArtwork -- 3.3.GraphicalRenderers -- 3.4.AudioTools -- 3.5.ScriptingLanguages -- 3.6.Version-ControlSystemToolsforProjectManagement -- 3.7.3DEngines -- 4.Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter6DATAREPRESENTATIONFORSCIENTIFICVISUALIZATION:ANINTRODUCTION -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Characteristicsandcommonprocessingofscientificdata -- 3.ScientificDataRepresentationandStorage -- 3.1.ADataModel -- 3.2.StructuredGrids -- 3.3.UnstructuredorIrregularGrids -- 4.SamplingandReconstructionofData -- 4.1.DiscreteFourierTransform(DFT)andtheInverseDFT -- 4.2.GraphicalRepresentationofFunctionsintheFrequencyDomain -- 4.3.TheNyquistRate -- 4.4.LowPassFiltersandtheConvolutionOperation -- 4.5.ReconstructionFilters -- 5.WaveletsTransforms -- 6.Conclusions -- References -- Chapter7ASURVEYONTHEGPUCOMPUTINGREVOLUTION -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.GraphicsHardwareEvolution -- 3.GPUProgrammingforGeneralPurpose -- 3.1.GPGPU:GeneralPurposecomputingontheGPU -- 3.2.GPUComputing -- 4.ComputationalPrimitivesontheGPU -- 4.1.Map -- 4.2.Scatterandgather -- 4.3.Reduction -- 4.4.Scan -- 5.Fieldsofinterest -- 5.1.LinearAlgebra -- 5.2.ImageProcessingandComputerVision -- 5.3.ConferencesandWorkshops -- 6.Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IN VIRTUAL REALITY* -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FRACTAL OBJECTS -- 2.1. The Self-Similarity -- 2.2. The Iterated Function System -- 2.3. L-Systems.

3. FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- 4. FRACTAL GEOMETRY FOR MODELLING VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter9VISUALATTENTIONINCOMPUTERGRAPHICS* -- 1Introduction -- 2HumanVisualSystem -- 2.1HumanVisualFieldandEyeMovements -- 2.2VisualAdaptation -- 3VisualAttention -- 3.1Top-downApproach -- 3.2Bottom-upApproach -- 4VisualAttentioninComputerGraphics -- 4.1RecentResults -- 5ConclusionsandFutureWork -- References -- INDEX -- Blank Page.