[MATRIX-SIG] books on plotting

[Paul Taney, Computer Specialist, Reston, VA]

Aaron Watters wrote:

> Is there a standard book on the topic of plotting?  It might provide
>  a framework for discussion.

What is plotting?  I think of paper products when you say that.

There are 2 books on computational geometry that might help with this;
especially mapping sparce matricies (coords) to spatial data 
structures (range-trees, convex hulls, etc.)

"Computational Geometry", Preperata and Shamos, Springer, 85

"Computational Geometry in C", J O'Rourke, Cambridge, 93  
code may still be at 131.299.64.23, /pub/compgeom

AW (No not you Aaron, the _publisher) has a series (5) on OpenGL and
Inventor;  see esp. _The Inventor Mentor_ if you want to get with
VRML.  SGI Inventor is the mother of VRML97.  Also see the Java3D
spec...

And of course the Graphics Gems series of 5 from AP.  Also see the GIS 
shelf at Computer Literacy (or wherever) esp. Unwin; he's got a site 
somewhere in .uk.


Hope this helps,
paul


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