Integrated Graphic and Computer Modelling by Adrian Thomas

Integrated Graphic and Computer Modelling by Adrian Thomas

Computer languages and computer graphics have become the primary modes of human-computer interaction. This book provides a basic introduction to "Real and Virtual Environment" computer modelling. Graphics models are used to illustrate both the way computer languages are processed and also used to create computer models of graphic displays. Computer languages have been bootstrapped from machine code, to high-level languages such as Java, to animation scripting languages. Integrating graphic and computer models takes this support for programming, design and simulation work, one step further, allowing interactive computer graphic displays to be used to construct computer models of both real and virtual environment systems. The Java language is used to implement basic algorithms for language translation, and to generate graphic displays. It is also used to simulate the behaviour of a computer system, to explore the way programming and design-simulation environments can be put together.

From the reviews:

"The book provides a coherent introduction to the area of computer graphics … and whose original role in communication, design, entertainment and art has broadened to include a wide spectrum of applications… There are two communities of readers for the book. Those who can produce graphics manually, or within a graphics painting or drawing environment … . And those who can program computers and therefore are accustomed to working in this way … . The book is full of color illustrations and Java code." (Agineszka Lisowska, Zentrablatt MATH, Vol. 1153, 2009)

​Adrian Thomas has been fascinated by history ever since his junior school days. He developed his interest in the history of radiology when he was a junior doctor at the Hammersmith Hospital in the 1980s. He has written many articles and book chapters and has co-authored books on the history of radiology, including a biography of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, the inventor of X-ray computed tomography. Adrian is secretary and past-chair of the International Society for the History of Radiology. He is honorary historian at the British Institute of Radiology, and lectures on the history of radiology for the Diploma of the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries. He is past-president of the British Society for the History of Medicine. He is visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University, and has a long-standing interest in role development in radiography.

Francis Duck igraduated in Physics from Nottingham University and joined the Medical Physics Department at University College Hospital, London, in 1966, initiating his lifelong career in medical ultrasound. This took him to Canada and the United States before returning to the United Kingdom to settle in Bath as a medical physicist in the National Health Service. Here, with colleagues from the Physics Department at the University of Bath, he pioneered several innovative developments in ultrasound scanning and also took a leading role in setting international standards for its safe medical use. More recently he has developed his interest in the history of science, and particularly the interface between physics and medicine, culminating in his monograph Physicists and Physicians, which traces three centuries of the contributions from physicists and engineers to medicine. In 2007 he was awarded the MBE for services to health care. He was formerly visiting professor at the University of Bath.

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ISBN 13	9781848001787
ISBN 10	1848001789
Title	Integrated Graphic and Computer Modelling
Author	Adrian Thomas
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer London Ltd
Year published	2008-09-10
Number of pages	685
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