We would like to thank our colleagues, friends, and family for their comments and
support while we wrote this book. In particular, Anne Pardoen provided invaluable
moral support. We are grateful to our fellow researchers who gave their consent to have
images from their works included here. Cyril Soler contributed several new illustrative
images.
We were helped a great deal by comments and suggestions on draft versions by
Russell Rushmeier and by anonymous reviewers. We benefited from the rich intellectual
environments we work in at Yale and INRIA. We are indebted to Tiffany Gasbarrini,
Michele Cronin, and the production team at Elsevier for their persistence and hard work
in turning our early drafts into a polished publication.
Each of us spent several years early in our careers working at the Program of Computer
Graphics at Cornell University. Our work, including this book, has been inspired by
the vision and example of our mentors at Cornell, Professor Donald Greenberg and
Professor Kenneth Torrance.