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Engineering graphics

Here are entered works on the preparation of illustrations for use in the design of engineering products, and in the computation, analysis and presentation of engineering data, including mechanical drawings, freehand sketches and graphical constructions. Works on the use of scales, graph papers, graphs, nomographs and similar graphic devices in engineering computation are entered under Engineering -- Graphic methods.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Geometry, Descriptive
• Mechanical drawing

• Computer graphics

• Graphics, Engineering

• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)
• Grokking the GIMP (2000), by Carey Bunks (illustrated HTML at linuxtopia.org)
• R Graphics Cookbook (second edition, 2024), by Winston Chang (illustrated HTML with commentary at r-graphics.org)
• Compute!'s Second Book of Atari Graphics (1984) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Compute!'s First Book of Atari Graphics (1982) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Compute!'s First Book of Atari (Greensboro, NC: COMPUTE! Books, c1981) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Computer Graphics Primer (1979), by Mitchell Waite (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• GPU Gems 3 (c2008), ed. by Herbert Nguyen (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems 2 (c2005), ed. by Matt Pharr (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems (first edition, c2004), ed. by Randima Fernando (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (c1997), by Michael Abrash (PDF files at gamedev.net)
• Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design (c1984), by Jeffrey Stanton and Dan Pinal (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Inside Macintosh: Imaging With QuickDraw (c1994), by Apple Computer, Inc. (PDF at Apple)
• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual (current version) (illustrated HTML at gimp.org)
• PNG: The Definitive Guide, by Greg Roelofs (HTML at libpng.org)
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (free electronic edition, c2004), by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer (PDF files with commentary at algorithmicbotany.org)
• Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC (1984), by Philip C. Seyer (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• WebGL Insights (Boca Raton et al: CRC Press, c2016), by Patrick Cozzi (PDF with commentary at webglinsights.com)

• Computer Animation Primer (1984), by David Fox and Mitchell Waite (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• GPU Gems 3 (c2008), ed. by Herbert Nguyen (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems 2 (c2005), ed. by Matt Pharr (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems (first edition, c2004), ed. by Randima Fernando (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• D3 Tutorials (original version of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, which is no longer free online), by Scott Murray (illustrated HTML at alignedleft.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Darstellende Geometrie (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1914), by Johannes Hjelmslev
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF page image files at Michigan
• Elements of Descriptive Geometry, by Charles Davies (page images at Cornell)
• Lehrbuch der Darstellenden Geometrie ("Teil I" only volume known to be published, in German; Leipzig: G. J. Göschen, 1906), by Erich Geyger
  • page images at Cornell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Treatise on Projection (London: R. Groomidge, 1840), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aircraft Lofting and Template Layout, With Descriptive Geometry (San Francisco: Aviation press, c1942), by Howard Thrasher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Isometric Drawing: A Treatise on Mechanical Illustrating Dealing With Typical Constructions and Outlining; A Course in the Art (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1911), by Alpha P. Jamison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Projection (London: R. Groomidge, 1840), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two Geometrical Memoirs on the General Properties of Cones of the Second Degree and on the Spherical Conics, by M. Chasles (page images at Cornell)

• Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)

• Fundamentals of Engineering Drawing for Technical Students and Professional Draftsmen (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946), by Warren Jacob Luzadder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineer Draughtsmen's Work: Hints for Beginners (London: Whittaker and Co., 1896), by A Practical Draughtsman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mechanical Drawing Problems for High Schools, Normal Schools and Vocational Schools (Peoria, IL: Manual Arts Press, c1918), by Edward Berg and Emil F. Kronquist (PDF at djm.cc)
• Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Self Taught (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., 1907), by Charles J. Westinghouse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Isometric Drawing: A Treatise on Mechanical Illustrating Dealing With Typical Constructions and Outlining; A Course in the Art (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1911), by Alpha P. Jamison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Why Architects Draw (with new preface; originally c1994), by Edward Robbins (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Study of Architectural Design, With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1926), by John F. Harbeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Color in Sketching and Rendering (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1935), by Arthur L. Guptill, contrib. by John Floyd Yewell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Applied Lettering and Design (New York: Watson-Guptill, c1949), by Rand Holub (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art Monograms and Lettering (revised 5th edition, 3 volumes in 1; 1912), by J. M. Bergling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettering for Commercial Purposes (Cincinnati: Signs of the Times Pub. Co., c1918), by William Hugh Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handwriting for the Broad-Edge Pen: A Teachers' Manual (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1926), by Frances M. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of Alphabets, For Use in Schools (Boston: Ginn and Co., c1908), by H. W. Shaylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.