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Teach graphics using excel in place of a graphing calculator
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Volume 38 ,  Issue 4  (December 2006) table of contents
COLUMN: Reviewed papers table of contents
Pages: 61 - 63  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISSN:0097-8418
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Authors
Torben Lorenzen  Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Abdul Sattar  Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Excel spreadsheets were developed to teach the underlying math in a computer graphics course including reviewing basic linear algebra operations, tracing a series of OpenGL transformations, and creating Bezier curves and surfaces with forward differences. Each spreadsheet contains an English overview of the mathematical process and the numerical result of each sub step thus providing a high level of abstraction. Double clicking a numerical result shows the underlying equation and operands used. The authors recommend using Excel in place of a graphing calculator in a computer graphics course.


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R. Jones, "CS398 - Design and Implementation of Computer Games, Homework", <http://www.cs.colby.edu/~rjones/courses/cs398/lectures/matrix.html>, 1999.
 
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K. Hoff, "Derivation of Incremental Forward-Difference Algorithm for Cubic Bezier Curves using the Taylor Series Expansion for Polynomial Approximation", <http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hoff>, 1995.
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Torben Lorenzen , Joseph Michaud, Teach 2D graphics concepts with an OpenGL graphing program, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.37 n.2, June 2005  [doi>10.1145/1083431.1083463]

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Keywords:
Excel, graphics, graphing calculator, linear algebra

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