1. Timothy Pratt – Charles Bostian & Jeremy Allmuti, Satellite Communications, John Willy
& Sons (Asia) Pvt. Ltd. 2004.
2. Wilbur L. Pritchars Henri G.Suyder Hond Robert A.Nelson, Satellite Communication
Systems Engineering, Pearson Education Ltd., Second edition 2003.
3. M.Richharia, Satellite Communication Systems Design Principles, Macmillan Press Ltd.
Second Edition, 2003.
AV479
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
(3‐ 0 ‐ 0) 3 credits
Graphics hardware and display devices; graphics primitives‐ drawing lines and curves; 2d and 3d
transformations; segments and their applications; generating curves, surfaces and volumes in
3d, wire‐frame models, Bezier and spline curves and surfaces; geometric modeling‐ elementary
geometric algorithms for polygons, boundary representations, constructive solid geometry,
spatial data structures; hidden surface and line elimination; rendering‐ shading, light models,
realistic image synthesis techniques, textures and image‐based rendering; video games and
computer animation.
Text/Reference Books:
1. Foley, van Dam, Feiner and Hughes, Computer Graphics (Principles and Practice),
Addisen Wesley.
2. D Hearn and P M Baker, Computer Graphics, Printice Hall of India.
3. D F Rogers, Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, McGraw Hill.
4. D F Rogers, Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, McGraw Hill.
5. Edward Angele, Interactive Computer Graphics, A top‐down approach with Op [