John Vince MTech, PhD, CEng, FBCS
National Centre for Computer Animation
Bournemouth University, UK
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Vince, John (John A.)
Geometry for computer graphics : formulae, examples and proofs
1. Computer graphics 2. Geometry – Data processing
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516′.0028566
ISBN 1852338342
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