Introduction to Computer Graphics: A Practical Learning Approach

A short history of the book:
teaching is not part of a reseracher's job here at CNR. From time to time, I've taught some courses:

• 2001 - Introduction to A.I.,Trinity College of Dublin
• 2002 - Introduction to A.I.,University of Pisa (assistant)
• 2007 - Phd Course on Mesh and Geometry Processing, University of Pisa
• 2006 - Computer Graphics , University of Siena
• 2007 - Computer Graphics , University of Siena
• 2013 - Phd Course: Shape and Visual Apperance Acquisition for Photo-realistic Visualization, Bertinoro Internation Spring School
• 2018 - Phd Course: Shape Analysis and Geometric Processing

I've developed a teaching in context approach to CG that is aimed to make the students learn while they develop their own client for a car racing game. Basically I wrote down a simple framework taking care of all aspects of a simple car racing game and the student where in charge of doing the rendering...from scratch.
It was a lot of fun and it worked. My collegue Massimiliano Corsini took my place when I left the course and kept using the framework. We then published a paper on our experience:

eNVyMyCar: a Multi-player Car Racing Game for Teaching Computer Graphics The development of a computer game is widely used as a way of conveying concepts regarding Computer Science. There are several reasons for this: it stimulates creativity, it provides an immediate sense of achievement (when the code works), it typically covers all the aspects of an introductory course, and it is easy to find ideas just by looking around and finding stimulation from one's environment and from fellow students. In this paper we present eNVy My Car (NVMC), a framework for the collaborative/competitive development of a computer game, and report the experience of its use.

Then, we met Prof. Sumanta Pattanaik , a renowwed scientist and professional teacher from University of Central Florida and,
along with our collegue Marco Di Benedetto decided to write an introductory book to Computer Graphics.