Workflows are being rethought and remodelled across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) spectrum. The synthesis of building information modelling (BIM) platforms with digital simulation techniques and increasing access to data, charting building performance, is allowing architects to engage in the generation of new workflows...

While traditional studies of dress and jewelry have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity,...

Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima--a term derived from the words "machine" and "cinema"--records the action in real-time interactive 3D environments, such as those found in video games, to create a cinematic production. No longer solely the province of hard-core...

WordPress guru Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog to give you the tools and know-how needed to build just about anything in WordPress. You’ll discover how to use WordPress as a CMS to power fully-fledged websites, photo galleries, forums,...

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Learn what Spring for Android adds to the Android developer toolkit.
• Learn how to debug your Android...

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 “Wireless Networks and Security” provides a broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in...

Take advantage of the open, tinker-friendly Android platform and make your device work the way you want it to. Quickly create Android tasks, scripts, and programs entirely on your Android device--no PC required. Learn how to build your own innovative Android programs and workflows with tools you can run on Android itself, and tailor the...

• This book offers key solutions and advice to address the hiccups faced when working on Arduino-based IoT projects in the real world
• Take your existing skills and capabilities to the next level by building challenging IoT applications with ease.
• Be the tech disruptor you always...

• Conduct realistic and effective security tests on your network
• Demonstrate how key data systems are stealthily exploited, and learn how to...

3D is everywhere--video games, movie and television specialeffects, mobile devices, etc. Many aspiring artists and animatorshave grown up with 3D and computers, and naturally gravitate tothis field as their area of interest. Bringing a blend of studioand...