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Geometrical drawing

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• Geometrical drawing -- Early works to 1800
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• The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form (London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1842), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Art Geometry: or, Geometrical Drawing Applied to Design (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., 1901), by Frank Steeley and Bernard H. Trotman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)
• Advis Charitables sur les Diverses Oeuvres, et Feuilles Volantes du Sr. Girard Desargues Lyonois (in French; Paris: M. Tavernier, 1642) (PDF at e-rara.ch)

• 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)

• 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; site may give security warning
  • PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine
• 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)

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

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

• 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.