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Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs

Apress, 2019

This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time...

Game Programming Gems 8

Course Technology PTR, 2010

Welcome to the eighth edition of the Game Programming Gems series, started by Mark DeLoura in 2000. The first edition was inspired by Andrew Glassner‘s popular Graphics Gems series. Since then, other Gems series have started, including AI Gems and a new series focused on the capabilities of programmable graphics, the ShaderX series....

Game Programming Gems 6 (Book & CD-ROM)

Charles River, 2006

Welcome to the sixth volume of the Game Programming Gems series. With team sizes constantly expanding, developers are finding themselves pushed to become increasingly specialized. This makes it important to have cutting-edge, ready-to-use material in your specialization, as well as resources that you can call upon if you need to work outside your...

Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2008 (Frommer's Complete Guides)

Frommers, 2007

Québec spent 2007 gearing up for its 400th anniversary party. New Year’s Eve (Dec 31, 2007) is the official kickoff, but most events take place from June to September 2008. The waterfront has been spruced up, museums are mounting special anniversary-related exhibits, and shows featuring the Cirque du Soleil and other performers...

Rails 4 Application Development: Hotshot

Packt Publishing, 2014

Build simple to advanced applications in Rails 4 through 10 exciting projects

Overview

Build interesting application scenarios with Rails 4

Upgrade your knowledge for the latest changes in the Rails framework

Follow the project-based approach to building applications from...

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy

Apress, 2008

Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of...

Game Programming Golden Rules (Game Development Series)

Charles River, 2004

Writing computer games is hard. Games today are complex projects that involve large teams of specialized artists and programmers. These teams are perpetually pushing technology beyond its boundaries and stretching their skills to the max. To alleviate these problems, Game Programming Golden Rules presents a series of nine "Golden Rules"...

The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic : Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

Peachpit Press, 2006

If you're looking for an easy way to work fast in Photoshop CS2, congratulations, you've found it! Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the NAPP, shows you how to use the power of automation to instantly save time, money, and frustration. Once you master these powerful tools, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them....

Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Power Users: Advanced Capabilities and Techniques

Apress, 2010

Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Power Users: Advanced Capabilities and Techniques is for Mac OS X users who want to go beyond the obvious, the standard, and the easy. If want to dig deeper into Mac OS X and maximize your skills and productivity using the world’s slickest and most elegant operating system, then this is the book for...

UML for Java Programmers

Prentice Hall, 2003

All the UML Java developers need to know

You don't use UML in a vacuum: you use it to build software with a specific programming language. If that language is Java, you need UML for Java Programmers. In this book, one of the world's leading object design experts becomes your personal coach on UML 1&2 techniques and best practices...

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger : Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

This serious, but fun, down-and-dirty book will let you make Tiger purr, ensuring that your Macs appearance, speed, usability, and security settings are what you want. Author Scott Knaster:

Shows you how to speed it up, lock it down, or pull back the curtains.

Dives into default system settings,...

The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz

Visible Ink Press, 2014

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used...

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