Digital Imaging Primer
Digital Imaging targets everyyone with an interest in digital imaging, be they professional or private, who uses even quite modest equipment such as a PC, digital camera and scanner, a graphics editor such as Paint, and an inkjet printer. Uniquely, it is
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Digital Imaging Primer
Digital Imaging Primer
Alan Parkin
Digital Imaging Primer
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Alan Parkin London UK
Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. ISBN 978-3-540-85617-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85619-1
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Preface
This book is about making pictures via a computer. Making pictures, that is to say making marks on a surface to represent things seen or imagined, is an ancient pursuit. Since the earliest times, techniques for making pictures have been in continuous development, branching out in new directions as new tools became available. Over the past 50 years we have seen just such a branching-out in the use of computers for imaging, overlapping, and often over-topping the techniques inherited from the past. Personal computers and their peripherals are modern tools for an ancient task. Nearly all the material in this book can be found in one form or another on the Internet. However, there seems to be room for an integrated treatment which is accessible at entry level, practicable with modest equipment, and fairly deep, leading on to further explorations in many directions. It is offered to scientists, engineers, and students with a computer background but no particular knowledge of digital imaging, and to artists, authors, and amateurs wanting a well-founded introduction to digital imaging and a well-integrated reference source. Readers of any level can dip in wherever they feel inclined, and skip whatever they already know. To this end, the prerequisites are merely possession of current standard equipment and a working knowledge of its use. Standard equipment is taken as:
