This book is intended for Spectrum owners who are competent BASICprogrammers, but who are complete beginners in computer graphics. It contains the elementary ideas and basic information about pixel and 2-D graphics that need to be understood before the more involved concepts of character and 3-D graphics can be mastered. A software cassette containing the programs in the book is available. See inside the back of the book for details.
At the 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC-16) in Taormina,
which took place in June 2003, we launched the idea to edit a new journal, named
Plasma Processes and Polymers, and published by Wiley-VCH. The purpose was to
collect under the same cover the great majority of articles dealing with plasma processing
of...
PostgreSQL is one of the most successful open source databases available. It is arguably also the most advanced, with a wide range of features that challenge even many closed-source databases.
This book is intended to be a practical guide to PostgreSQL v7.1.x, though most of the book should also apply to earlier and future releases of...
Discover how easy it is to design and build responsive, cross-platform apps with the Enyo open source JavaScript framework. With this revised and expanded edition, Enyo contributor Roy Sutton gets you started with the framework’s core object-oriented features, including its modular design, reusable and extensible components,...
My dentist said, ‘I’ve just given you a lethal injection.’
He explained that the novocaine he’d just injected into my jaw was fatal – or would be if it went into a vein. Where it was, in the muscle, the injection was safe.
In researching this book, I discovered that poisons are used as beauty aids...
Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work's investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, AÖyurveda, and Tantra-three Hindu...
Communication protocols form the operational basis of computer networks and telecommunication systems. They are behavior conventions that describe how communication systems interact with each other, defining the temporal order of the interactions and the formats of the data units exchanged – essentially they determine the...
