Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities.
This new edition is an artist's sourcebook for the visionary in you that wants to master 3D-and have fun in the process....

• Gain an understanding of the machine learning design process
• Optimize machine learning systems for improved accuracy
• Understand common programming tools and techniques for machine...

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition―winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association―provides a thorough overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and of the historical changes in climate during the past three million...

• moves from one mathematical method to the next sustaining reader interest and easing the application of the techniques
• Uses different examples from chemical, civil, mechanical and various...

Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques. Practical parallel rendering provides one of the most practical solutions. This book addresses the basic issues of rendering within a parallel or distributed computing environment, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of...

A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. The C1 Advanced Student's Book consolidates academic study skills. Students' analytical skills are challenged with an increased range of authentic written and spoken academic texts. From essay organisation, taking...

• The first PrimeFaces book that concentrates on practical approaches rather...

• Learn to use Apache Storm and the Python Petrel library to build distributed applications that process large streams of data
• Explore sample applications in real-time and analyze...