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Geometry, Descriptive

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• Geometrical drawing
• Geometry

• Projection

• Axonometric projection
• Cone
• Engineering graphics
• Isometric projection
• Stereotomy

• Descriptive geometry

• 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.

• Nuevo Metodo de Trazado de Plantillas para Trabajos en Laminas Metalicas (in Spanish; Mexico: Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1922), by Francisco Morán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Treatise on Projection (London: R. Groomidge, 1840), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité des Projections des Cartes Géographiques;: Représentation Plane de la Sphère et du Sphéroide (in French; Paris: A. Bertrand, ca. 1866), by Adrien Adolphe Charles Germain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Geometry Unbound (c2006), by Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (PDF with commentary at kskedlayaorg)
• Geometric Topology: Localization, Periodicity and Galois Symmetry (The 1970 MIT Notes) (electronic edition, ca. 2005), by Dennis Sullivan, ed. by Andrew Ranicki (PDF in the UK)
• Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry (2000), ed. by Deirdre Haskell, Anand Pillay, and Charles Steinhorn (PDF files with commentary at msri.org)
• Cours de Géométrie Élémentaire, avec de Nombreux Exercices (second edition, in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils; et al., 1912), by G. Marie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Elementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry, by R. Lachlan (page images at Cornell)
• Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, by A. M. Legendre and Charles Davies, ed. by J. Howard Van Amringe (page images at Cornell)
• The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, and Propositions I.-XXI. of Book XI., and an Appendix on the Cylinder, Sphere, Cone, Etc., With Copious Annotations and Numerous Exercises (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co., 1885), by Euclid and John Casey (page images at Cornell)
• Geometriske Eksperimenter (in Danish; Copenhagen: Jul. Gjellerups Forlag, 1913), by Johannes Hjelmslev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to Mathematics (Reading, MA and London: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1961), by Charles Francis Brumfiel, Robert E. Eicholz, and Merrill Shanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols, by Euclid, ed. by Oliver Byrne and Nicholas Rougeux (JavaScript-dependent illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples, by John Wellesley Russell (page images at Cornell)
• La Recente Geometria del Triangolo (in Italian; Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1900), by Cristoforo Alasia
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry (1911), by John Wesley Young (page images at Cornell)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.