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Real-Time Visual Effects for Game Programming (Gaming Media and Social Effects)

Springer, 2015

This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied in the game...

The Employee Answer Book: Practical Answers to the Top 250 Questions Every Employee Has

Sphinx Publishing, 2009

Not everything that you might think is unfair in the workplace is actually illegal.

In order to fully protect your rights, you must understand them first. The Employee Answer Book, the latest addition to the Answer Book Series, answers real questions from real people. This book discusses federal employment law in detail and touches...

The Joy of Clojure

Manning Publications, 2014

Summary

The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep look at the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond just syntax to show you the "why" of Clojure and how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming...

Modern Robotics: Building Versatile Machines (Milestones in Discovery and Invention)

Chelsea House Publications, 2006

The Milestones in Science and Discovery set is based on a simple but powerful idea—that science and technology are not separate from people’s daily lives. Rather, they are part of seeking to understand and reshape the world, an activity that virtually defines being human.

More than a million years ago, the ancestors of...

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Apress, 2007

Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It’s that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That’s when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees...

Depth Map and 3D Imaging Applications: Algorithms and Technologies

IGI Global, 2011

This book has three editors, and all of us are involved in image processing and computer vision research. We have contributed to the 3D imaging research, especially in the field of passive optical 3D shape recovery methods. Over the last decade, significant progress had been made in 3D imaging research. As a result, 3D imaging...

Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A wireless sensor network (WSN) uses a number of autonomous devices to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions via a wireless network. Since its military beginnings as a means of battlefield surveillance, practical use of this technology has extended to a range of civilian applications including environmental monitoring,...

RabbitMQ Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013

Knowing a reliable enterprise messaging system based on the AMQP standard can be an essential for today’s software developers. This cookbook helps you learn all the basics of RabbitMQ through recipes, code, and real-life examples.

Overview

Create scalable distributed applications with RabbitMQ

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Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Apress, 2008

The year 2005 was a traumatic year for the Java web application development community. It was under fire for the unnecessary “fat” architecture of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) systems compared to the new kids on the block like Ruby on Rails and Django. The search began for Java’s answer to these frameworks. I had an...

Joe Celko's Complete Guide to NoSQL: What Every SQL Professional Needs to Know about Non-Relational Databases

Morgan Kaufmann, 2013

Joe Celko's Complete Guide to NoSQL provides a complete overview of non-relational technologies so that you can become more nimble to meet the needs of your organization. As data continues to explode and grow more complex, SQL is becoming less useful for querying data and extracting meaning. In this new world of bigger and faster...

Time and Petri Nets

Springer, 2013

At first glance the concepts of time and of Petri nets are quite contrary: while time determines the occurrences of events in a system, classic Petri nets consider their causal relationships and they represent events as concurrent systems. But if we take a closer look at how time and causality are intertwined we realize that there are many...

Windows 10 Guidebook: A tour into the future of computing

Jublo IT Solutions, 2015

Windows 10 is really easy to use with this guide – for Windows insiders upgrading from Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10, as well as for first-time users that want to learn about the operating system basics.
Chapters 1 and 2 present the new and changed features in Windows 10. Furthermore, we describe what you have to watch...

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