If you already know your way around Photoshop and Painter and want to use these amazing programs to take your skills further, this book is for you! Much more than a simple "how-to" guide, Susan Ruddick Bloom takes you on a full-fledged journey of the imagination and shows you how to create incredible works of fine art. Supplemented...

The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated...

This 5 volume MRW (Major Reference Work) is entitled "Computer Aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems". A brief summary description of each of the 5 volumes will be noted in their respective PREFACES. An MRW is normally on a broad subject of major importance on the international scene. Because of the breadth of a major...

The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated...

Over the last few decades, energy minimization methods have become an established paradigm to resolve a variety of challenges in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition. While traditional approaches to computer vision were often based on a heuristic sequence of processing steps and merely allowed a very limited...

Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science – leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/ undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation, based on biological and physical...

Twenty-one years ago, I read a book that changed my life. Today I hope to write a book that will change yours. This is not a self-help book or some form of new philosophy. This book is the gateway to the inner sanctums of game programming, past and present. Bold words, I know, but I believe in this book with my whole heart. To someone...

Every so often, a technology comes along that changes the way we go about our everyday business. This technology is called a disruptive technology and has such a significant benefit or improvement that people are willing to change their normal way of doing things to incorporate the new technology. Virtualization is one of those disruptive...

Layout concerns the placement of text and image elements within a design. How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another and within the overall design scheme, will affect how the content is viewed and received by the readers, as well as their emotional reaction towards it. Layout can help or hinder the receipt of...

Microsoft Offi ce 2010 is the leading software package for communicating and organizing everything you need for work, school, or home. Microsoft Offi ce 2010 is available in three versions: Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional. This book covers all three versions of Microsoft Offi ce 2010, so you can use it with any of...

Computational intelligence is a fast-moving, multidisciplinary field - the nexus of diverse technical interest areas that include neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Keeping up with computational intelligence means understanding...