Half-tone perspective drawings by computer

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the sheer increase in demand for the graphic presentation of three-dimensional objects has almost overwhelmed conventional facilities; that is, designers, draftsmen and especially engineering artists. For example, it is important for a designer or architect to quickly describe a three-dimensional object and view it immediately; not as an endless set of engineering drawings, but as if he were viewing the three-dimensional object itself. He should be able to take a distant look at a complicated object, and then view, in detail, any subsection of the object. In other words, he would like to quickly and cheaply simulate and view the thing he is designing.

References

1. A L Fass and A R Amir-Moéz Elements of linear spaces Macmillan Company New York 1962
2. B E Meserve Fundamental concepts of geometry Addison-Wesley Reading Mass 1955
3. L G Roberts Homogenous matrix representation of N-dimensional solids MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Mass
4. L G Roberts Machine perception of three-dimensional solids MIT Lincoln Laboratory 1963 Technical Report no 315 Lexington Mass

Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Computer graphics

    • Shape modeling