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The Computer Animation Dictionary: Including Related Terms Used in Computer Graphics, Film and Video, Production, and Desktop Publishing Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Roncarelli, Robi (Author)
ISBN: 0387970223     ISBN-13: 9780387970226
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $104.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 1989
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Desktop Applications - Design & Graphics
- Art
Dewey: 700
LCCN: 89-11300
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.44 lbs) 124 pages
 
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Dr AIvy Ray Smith Executive Vice President, Pixar The pOlyglot language of computer animation has arisen piecemeal as a collection of terms borrowed from geometry, film, video, painting, conventional animation, computer graphiCS, computer science, and publishing - in fact, from every older art or science which has anything to do with pictures and picture making. Robi Roncarelli, who has already demonstrated his foresight by formally identifying a nascent industry and addressing his Computer Animation Newsletter to it, here again makes a useful contribution to it by codifying its jargon. My pleasure in reading his dictionary comes additionally from the many historical notes sprinkled throughout and from surprise entries such as the one referring to Zimbabwe. Just as Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was a major force in stabilizing the spelling of English, perhaps this one will serve a similar purpose for computer animation. Two of my pets are "color" for "colour" and "modeling" "modelling", under the rule that the shorter accepted spelling is always preferable. Robi, are you reading this?] Yes, AIvy ] Now I commend this book to you, whether you be a newcomer or an oldtimer.