Computer Graphics: Programming, Problem Solving, and Visual Communication

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This work was supported by National Science Foundation grant DUE-9950121. All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations in this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The author also gratefully acknowledges sabbatical support from California State University Stanislaus and thanks the San Diego Supercomputer Center, most particularly Dr. Michael J. Bailey, for hosting this work and for providing significant assistance with both visualization and science content. Ken Brown, a student of the author’s, provided invaluable and much-appreciated assistance with several figures and concepts in this manuscript. The author also thanks students Ben Eadington, Jordan Maynard, and Virginia Muncy for their contributions through examples, and a number of others for valuable conversations and suggestions on these notes.