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All the tools you need to create the full range of Visual Basic(r) color graphics applications
Expert Rod Stephens provides you with everything you need to add advanced graphics to your applications in this in-depth introduction to graphic programming with Microsoft Visual Basic. From images using as few as 16 colors to "true-color" applications that use more than 16 million, he shows you how to create the full range of color graphics applications. You'll learn how to use Visual Basic controls to create impressive graphic effects without having to buy expensive add-on products.
This book/CD-ROM package also explains how to integrate imaging, animation, and two- and three-dimensional graphics into an application. And you'll find the tools to manipulate color images, overlay one image on another, build scrolled windows, and much more.
The Second Edition covers:
* New API functions
* Bitmap image morphing
* New algorithms for hidden surface removal
* Print preview with multiple pages and scales
* Image processing, including high color and true color
* Examples of controlling animation using simulation
* New examples that demonstrate shape-distorting transformations
* New examples of fractals and tilings
* Gouraud shading, Phong shading, and texturing
* Ray tracing speed improvements
* Ray tracing for new kinds of objects
The CD-ROM includes:
* More than 400 complete, ready-to-run example programs
* Pictures to use with the example programs
* Images generated by the programs
* Color images of many of the figures from the book
* Source code for all example programs from the First Edition
Synopsis
Nearly all the source code has been revised to take advantage of VB's programming features and to support new color models. Learn new features, including VB's functionality, API functions, analytic geometry, ray tracing, image processing, and shape-distorting transformation. CD include complete source for all ready-to-use examples.
Synopsis
Hier kommt die langersehnte 2. Auflage des Bestsellers Visual Basic Graphics Programming. Rod Stephens unterh lt die Website - vb-helper.com -, die zu den f hrenden Visual Basic Websites z hlt. In den vergangenen 12 Monaten gingen unz hlige Nachfragen von Programmierern ein, wann denn endlich ein Band kommt, der sich mit fortgeschrittener VB Farbgraphik-Programmierung besch ftigt. Und hier ist er: Ein praktischer Leitfaden, der das komplette Spektrum der VB Farbgraphik-Anwendungen abdeckt, angefangen bei 16 Farben bis hin zu High-Colour- oder True-Colour-Anwendungen mit mehr als 256 Farben. Die beiliegende CD-ROM enth lt den sofort einsetzbaren Quellcode f r alle Beispiele aus dem Buch. (cat06/99)
Synopsis
* Source code for all example programs from the First Edition
Description
System requirements for accompanying computer disc: a computer able to run Visual Basics (ie. 486, 450MHz Pentium); CD-ROM drive; 265 MB hard disk space.
About the Author
Rod Stephens is a contract software engineer specializing in graphical user interface, algorithms, and database systems. He has published over 120 articles and nine books including Bug Proofing Visual Basic and Ready-to-Run Visual Basic Algorithms.
Table of Contents
WORKING WITH WINDOWS.
Visual Basics.
Using the API.
Advanced Color.
Advanced Text.
Printing.
IMAGE PROCESSING.
Point Processes.
Area Processes.
ANIMATION.
Bitmap Animation.
Advanced Animation.
TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS.
Fractals and Tilings.
Drawing Curves.
Two-Dimensional Transformations.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS.
Three-Dimensional Transformations.
Surfaces.
Hidden Surface Removal.
Shading Models.
Ray Tracing.
BEYOND THREE DIMENSIONS.
Higher-Dimensional Transformations.
Mathematical Tools.
Index.