Computer graphics
Here are entered general works on computer techniques and products used to create graphics for engineering and artistic purposes.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:- Computer art
- Electronic data processing
- Engineering graphics
- Graphic arts
- Image processing -- Digital techniques
- Computer graphics -- Computer programs
- Computer animation
- Graphics processing units
- Icons (Computer graphics)
- Interactive computer graphics
- Automatic drafting
- Graphic data processing
- Graphics, Computer
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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
- 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.
Filed under: Computer art- Artist and Computer (1976), ed. by Ruth Leavitt (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
- Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
- Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Information, Randomness and Incompleteness (second edition, 1990), by Gregory J. Chaitin (Postscript at Maine)
- Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Connie Clare, Maria J. Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- An Introduction to the Theory of Computation (c1989), by Eitan Gurari (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- How to Design Programs (second edition, c2014), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at neu.edu)
- How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (electronic version, 2002), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (illustrated HTML with commentary at htdp.org)
- Introduction to Computing: Explorations in Language, Logic, and Machines (2011), by David Evans (PDF and HTML with commentary at computingbook.org)
- The Best of Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl and Burchanel Green
- Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)
- Open Distributed Systems (1996), by Jon Crowcroft
- Pro Git (second editions, 2014), by Scott Chacon (HTML with commentary at git-scm.com)
- Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (second edition, 2008), by Ross Anderson (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
- The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud (c2008), ed. by Richard N. Katz (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
- Good Data (Theory on Demand #29; Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures, 2019), ed. by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
- Good Data (Theory on Demand #29; Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures, 2019), ed. by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
- RAIRO: Theoretical Informatics and Applications (partial serial archives)
- Theory of Computing (2005-) (full serial archives)
- Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl (partial serial archives)
- The Computer Journal (partial serial archives)
- Computerworld (partial serial archives)
- Compute! (partial serial archives)
- The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization, by Gene I. Rochlin (HTML at Princeton)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.