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| Introduction | |
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| Working with Windows | |
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| Visual Basics | |
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| Visual Basic Coordinate Systems | |
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| Custom Coordinates | |
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| Coordinate Overflow | |
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| Scale Conversions | |
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| Size and Positioning | |
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| Interior Sizing | |
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| The Move Method | |
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| Graphic Container Controls | |
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| Line Method | |
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| Circle Method | |
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| PaintPicture Method | |
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| PSet Method | |
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| Point Method | |
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| Print Method | |
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| Scrolled Windows | |
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| Scrolled Window Controls | |
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| When to Draw | |
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| AutoRedraw Property | |
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| Paint Events | |
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| Redrawing During Resize Events | |
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| Controlling Controls | |
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| Text Properties | |
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| Other Graphic Properties | |
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| Graphical Controls | |
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| Image Control | |
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| Label Control | |
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| Line Control | |
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| Shape Control | |
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| Color | |
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| RGB Colors | |
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| System Colors | |
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| Decomposing Colors | |
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| QBColor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Using the API | |
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| The Genie | |
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| Using the API | |
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| Identifying the Routine | |
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| Defining Data Structures | |
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| Declaring the Routine | |
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| Calling the Routine | |
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| Useful API Functions | |
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| Drawing | |
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| Drawing Attributes | |
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| Metafiles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Advanced Color | |
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| Color Models | |
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| Bitmaps | |
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| Device-Dependent Bitmaps | |
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| Device-Independent Bitmaps | |
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| Color Palettes | |
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| Static Colors | |
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| Inverting Static Colors | |
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| Colors in Visual Basic | |
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| Summary | |
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| Advanced Text | |
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| Multiple Colors and Fonts | |
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| Text Metrics | |
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| CreateFont Function | |
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| Height | |
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| Width | |
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| Escapement | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Weight | |
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| Italic, Underline, StrikeOut | |
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| CharacterSet | |
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| OutputPrecision | |
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| ClipPrecision | |
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| Quality | |
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| PitchAndFamily | |
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| Face | |
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| Standard Fonts | |
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| Programming with CreateFont | |
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| Curved Text | |
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| Centering Rotated Text | |
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| Editable Text | |
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| Summary | |
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| Printing | |
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| Printer Objects | |
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| Selecting a Printer | |
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| Printer Properties | |
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| Printer Control Methods | |
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| The PrintForm Method | |
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| High-Resolution Printing | |
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| Printing Text | |
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| Print Preview | |
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| Multipage Print Preview | |
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| Printer Scale Properties | |
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| Scaling Objects to Fit | |
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| High Resolution PrintForm | |
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| Summary | |
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| Image Processing | |
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| Point Processes | |
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| Obtaining Images | |
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| Programming Tools | |
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| LoadPicture | |
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| LoadImage | |
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| SavePicture Routine | |
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| Point and PSet Functions | |
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| Point Processes | |
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| Grayscale | |
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| Complement | |
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| Brightness | |
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| Color Balance | |
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| Contrast | |
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| Binary Contrast Enhancement | |
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| Multiple Image Processing | |
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| Image Subtraction | |
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| Image Averaging | |
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| Image Compositing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Area Processes | |
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| Spatial Filtering | |
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| Initializing Kernels | |
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| Low-Pass Filters | |
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| Unsharp Masking | |
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| High-Pass Filters | |
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| Edge Detection | |
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| Embossing | |
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| Restricting an Operation Using a Mask | |
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| Summary of Spatial Filters | |
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| Rank Filters | |
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| Geometric Transformations | |
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| Bilinear Interpolation | |
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| A Transformation Framework | |
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| Enlargement | |
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| Reduction | |
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| Cheating with LoadImage | |
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| Rotation | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Complex Reflection | |
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| Shape-Distorting Transformation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Animation | |
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| Bitmap Animation | |
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| Animation Basics | |
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| Timing Is Everything | |
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| Timing in Visual Basic | |
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| Fast Display | |
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| Timer Controls | |
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| Clock Watching | |
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| Displaying Files Directly | |
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| Storing Image Bits | |
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| The Need for Speed | |
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| Drawing Animation | |
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| Clear and Redraw | |
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| Save and Restore | |
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| Using the API | |
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| Summary | |
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| Advanced Animation | |
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| Controlling Animation | |
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| Simulation | |
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| Scripts | |
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| Sprites | |
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| Tweening and Morphing | |
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| Tweening | |
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| Morphing | |
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| Specialized Animation | |
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| Scene Transitions | |
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| Screen Savers | |
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| Animating Program Icons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Two-Dimensional Graphics | |
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| Fractals and Tilings | |
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| Fractals | |
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| Trees | |
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| Snowflakes | |
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| Space-Filling Curves | |
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| Gaskets | |
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| The Mandelbrot Set | |
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| Julia Sets | |
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| Strange Attractors | |
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| Tilings | |
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| Summary | |
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| Drawing Curves | |
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| Lines and Circles | |
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| Parametric Curves | |
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| DrawCurve | |
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| Rotating Points | |
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| Curve Fitting | |
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| Polynomial Curve Fitting | |
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| Linear Least Squares | |
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| Quadratic Least Squares | |
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| Higher-Order Least Squares | |
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| Parametric Curve Fitting | |
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| Hermite Curves | |
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| Bezier Curves | |
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| Higher-Order Bezier Curves | |
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| B-Splines | |
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| Closed B-Splines | |
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| Summary | |
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| Two-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Modeling Two-Dimensional Objects | |
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| Windows and Viewports | |
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| Panning and Zooming | |
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| Aspect Ratios | |
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| Windows and Viewports in Visual Basic | |
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| Zooming and Panning in Visual Basic | |
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| Two-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Simple Transformations | |
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| Combining Transformations | |
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| Transformation Matrices in Visual Basic | |
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| Vector and Matrix Operations in Visual Basic | |
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| Transforming Objects | |
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| Shape-Distorting Transformations | |
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| Treating Types of Transformation Differently | |
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| Display Data Structure | |
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| Quadtrees | |
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| Locating Objects | |
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| Quadtrees in Visual Basic | |
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| A Quadtree Implementation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Three-Dimensional Graphics | |
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| Three-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Simple Transformations | |
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| Homogeneous Coordinates | |
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| Vector and Matrix Operations in Visual Basic | |
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| Translation | |
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| Scaling | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Right-Handed Coordinates | |
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| Rotation | |
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| Inverse Transformations | |
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| Projections | |
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| Parallel Projection | |
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| Perspective Projection | |
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| Summary of Projections | |
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| Perspective Viewing | |
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| Composing Transformations | |
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| Scaling without Translation | |
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| Reflection across an Arbitrary Plane | |
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| Rotation around an Arbitrary Line | |
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| Projection onto an Arbitrary Plane | |
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| The UP Vector | |
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| Using Subroutine m3Project | |
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| Spherical Coordinates | |
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| Three-Dimensional Objects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Surfaces | |
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| Simple Surfaces | |
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| Grids | |
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| The Hi-Lo Algorithm | |
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| The Z-Order Algorithm | |
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| Fractal Surfaces | |
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| Parametric Surfaces | |
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| Bezier Surfaces | |
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| B-Splines | |
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| Surfaces of Transformation | |
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| Extruded Surfaces | |
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| Surfaces of Revolution | |
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| Other Surfaces of Transformation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Hidden Surface Removal | |
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| Backface Removal | |
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| Finding Surface Normals | |
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| Testing Angles with Normals | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Convex Solids | |
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| Backface Removal in Visual Basic | |
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| Depth-Sort | |
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| Nonconvex Solids | |
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| Surfaces Revisited | |
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| Summary | |
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| Shading Models | |
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| The Physics of Lighting | |
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| Diffuse Reflection | |
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| Ambient Light | |
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| Distance | |
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| Specular Reflection | |
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| Smooth Shading | |
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| Gouraud Shading | |
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| Phong Shading | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ray Tracing | |
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| A Brief Warning | |
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| Ray-Tracing Basics | |
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| Ray Tracing in Visual Basic | |
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| Calculating Hit Color | |
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| Tracing Rays | |
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| Performance | |
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| Bounding Volumes | |
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| Scanline Culling | |
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| Other Objects | |
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| Planes | |
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| Disks | |
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| Polygons | |
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| Checkerboards | |
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| Cylinders | |
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| Recursive Ray Tracing | |
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| Reflected Light | |
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| Transparent Surfaces | |
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| Assumptions | |
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| Adaptive Depth Control | |
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| Texture Mapping | |
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| Normal Perturbation | |
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| Environment Mapping | |
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| Special Environment Mapping | |
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| Summary | |
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| Beyond Three Dimensions | |
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| Higher-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Temporal Projection | |
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| Spatial Projection | |
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| Four-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Homogeneous Coordinates | |
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| Translation | |
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| Scaling | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Rotation | |
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| Inverse Transformations | |
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| Projections | |
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| Rotating a Hypercube | |
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| Folding a Hypercube | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mathematical Tools | |
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| Vectors and Matrices | |
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| Vector Arithmetic | |
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| Vector Length | |
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| Dot Product | |
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| Projection of a Vector onto a Vector | |
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| Cross Product | |
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| Matrix-Vector Multiplication | |
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| Matrix-Matrix Multiplication | |
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| Transformation Matrices | |
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| Two-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Three-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Four-Dimensional Transformations | |
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| Spherical Coordinates | |
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| Distances | |
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| Point-to-Point | |
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| Point-to-Line | |
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| Point-to-Plane | |
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| Line-to-Line | |
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| Plane-to-Plane | |
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| Platonic Solids | |
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| Regular Solids | |
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| Duals | |
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| Tetrahedron | |
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| Cube | |
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| Octahedron | |
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| Dodecahedron | |
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| Icosahedron | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |