Books

Official CG lecture textbook

• Computer Graphics (Second edition in C)
  by Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker / Ed : Prentice Hall

A really good introduction book on CG at large.
Second Edition, 1997 / ISBN 0-13-530924-7

This lecture is mainly inspired from that book, the main difference is that we will explore the same concepts in Java, when the author did it in Fortran and C

From quite trusty source, it looks like that book is the one that has been used Visual Python developer Guido van Rossum to develop the software graphic pipeline of VPython!

Java

• Core Java / Volume I Fundamentals
  by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell / Publisher: Sun

• Core Java / Volume II Advanced Features
  by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell / Publisher: Sun

• Java Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media and Visualization
  by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni and Michael Barlow / Publisher: SAMS

An all new one, with a part on Java3D.

Computer Graphics

• Computer Graphics : Principles and Practice
  by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes / Publisher: Addison-Wesley

A reference on that subject.
Second Edition, 1993 / ISBN 0-201-12110-7

• 3D Computer Graphics
  by Alan H. Watt / Publisher: Addison-Wesley

3D specific.
Third Edition, 2000 / ISBN : 0 201 39855 9

• 3D Games Volume One : Real-time Rendering and Software Technology
  by Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo / Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Game oriented.
First Edition, 2001 / ISBN : 0201-61921-0

• Introduction to Computer Graphics
  by N. Krishnamurthy

Very practical one

Java 3D

• Java Programming Techniques for 2D, 2.5D, 3D, and Networked Games
  by Dr. Andrew Davison / Not Yet Published, but available on line (Beta status)

• Essential Java 3D
  by Ian Palmer

An introduction book to Java 3D. Not really good, but at least, it exists.

• 3D User Interfaces with Java 3D
  by Jon Barrilleau

A large part of that book is on user interface principles and on their categorization. The second part only is on Java3D

• Java 3D API Jump-Start
  by Aaron E. Walsh and Doug Gehringer / Publisher: Prentice Hall

Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper, 266 pp.
ISBN: 0-13-034076-6

Mathematics

• Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics
  By Eric Lengyel / Publisher: Charles River Media, INC

First Edition 2002 / ISBN : 1-58450