Computer graphics is being used to an increasing extent in the biological disciplines. As hardware costs drop and technological developments intro- duce new graphics possibilities, researchers and teachers alike are becoming aware of the value of visual display methods. In this book we introduce the basics of computer graphics from the standpoints of both hardware and software, and review the main areas within biology to which computer graphics have been applied. The com- puter graphics literature is vast, and we have not been able to give a full course on graphics techniques in these pages....