Morphs, Mallards, and Montages:
Computer-Aided Imagination
Morphs cover In 1996 I started writing a regular column for the magazine IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Morphs, Mallards, and Montages is the third collection of my columns, bringing together three year's worth of articles. They've all been updated and revised for this gathering, and will include new material that wasn't able to make it into the columns because of space restrictions. Because I believe in the power of visuals as well as the power of words, the book contains over 900 figures.

The idea that graphics is fun is reflected in the book's subtitle, Computer-Aided Imagination. The cover is a notebook-style collage of some illustrations from different chapters, evoking the idea of a notebook. .

You can read notes on the original columns, plus the ones that haven't yet been collected, here.

It's inevitable that any time you create new material, you'll also create new errors! I've corrected the errors from the original columns, but if a couple of glitches slipped into the new material, you'll be able to get the list of errata here.

I had a lot of fun writing this book, and I hope people will enjoy reading it. The book is published by AK Peters. You can buy the book in most bookstores, as well as online in outlets like Amazon. This book is a sequel to my first collection, Andrew Glassner's Notebook, and the second collection, Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook.

Here's the table of contents:

Preface
1 Designing and Building Pop-Up Cards
2 Reconstructing Shredded Documents
3 Ducks and Waves
4 Curious Pictures
5 Digital Weaving and Building A Digital Loom
6 Image Search and Replace
7 Venn Diagrams for Lots of Variables
8 Metamorphosis in 3D
9 Everyday Computer Graphics
10 Fonts Fonts Fonts!
11 Spirograph Unleashed
12 The Geometry of Crop Circles
Index