Graphics Programming with Perl Book for Perl Mongers]

[Ian Taite]

I'd be interested to know how much of this is usable on NT/2K systems; I've
got no experience of compiling from scratch under Windows.
Ian.
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> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:56:37 -0400
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> Manning Publications announces the release of:
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> Graphics Programming with Perl
> By Martien Verbruggen
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> Greenwich, Connecticut, May 2002 - Graphics Programming with Perl is a
> guide
> to the graphics and imaging modules and tools available to the Perl
> programmer. It covers subjects ranging from drawing pictures and dynamic
> graphics for web pages to rendering three-dimensional scenes and
> manipulating individual image pixels. The text is liberally illustrated
> with
> example code and programs that show how to achieve common, and sometimes
> not
> so common, graphics programming tasks. For the even less common tasks, the
> book shows developers how to write their own modules.
>
> What's Inside -
> * How to create charts and graphs
> * Serving graphics content to the WWW with CGI
> * How to modularize your graphics code, and re-use it
> * Code to manipulate image pixels (and how to do it fast)
> * How to work with text in graphics
> * A complete reference for Image::Magick
> * Usable examples on adding watermarks to images, creating thumbnails,
> dynamic web pages with charts, building convolution filters; a web photo
> album, 3D animation with OpenGL and Renderman
>
> About the Author -
> A developer, architect and systems administrator, Martien Verbruggen is
> the
> author of the GD::Graph charting module and the GD::Text modules. He is a
> regular contributor to the Perl Usenet groups. Martien lives in Sydney,
> Australia, with his wife and daughter.
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> Graphics Programming with Perl
> ISBN 1930110-022
> By Martien Verbruggen
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