Contents

Preface

Part One: Introduction to the Medium

1. Line Drawings

2. Continuous Tone and Color

3. The Computer as a Graphics Machine

4. Writing, Compiling, and Executing a Graphics Program

Part Two: Elementary Graphics Programs

5. The Pascal Programming Language

6. Programs to Generate Simple Line Drawings

7. Coordinate Calculations

8. Graphic Vocabularies

9. Repetition

10. Curves

11. Conditionals

12. Hierarchical Structure

Part Three: Advanced Techniques

13. Strong Pictures: Data Structures

14. Transformations

15. Simple Drawing Editors

16. Going On from Here

Appendix: Implementation Details

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index