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Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max: Thinking Outside of the Box

Focal Press, 2008

Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max is a practical guide for intermediate- to advanced-level 3ds Max modelers, covering techniques that will signifi cantly impact the quality of your models as well as work fl ow and productivity. This volume covers Poly-Modeling extensively, while also touching on other methods of modeling that can be implemented in your...

Ray Tracing from the Ground Up

AK Peter, 2007

Computer graphics involves simulating the distribution of light in a 3D environment. There are only a few fundamentally different algorithms that have survived the test of time. They can be loosely classified into projective algorithms and image-space algorithms. The former class projects each geo metric primitive onto the...

Mapping Antarctica: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery (Springer Praxis Books)

Springer, 2013

Antarctica was to be the greatest discovery of them all! It was never to be a tripping over of a piece of useless land: the Greek philosophers had predicted a polar land- mass of geophysical importance! The question was rather whether or not man could bridge the "torrid equatorial zone" that was thought to separate the...

JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms: An Introduction to Understanding and Implementing Core Data Structure and Algorithm Fundamentals

Apress, 2019

The motivation for writing this book was the lack of resources available about data structures and algorithms written in JavaScript. This was strange to me because today many of the job opportunities for software development require knowledge of JavaScript; it is the only language that can be used to write the entire stack, including the...

Theory of Fun for Game Design

O'Reilly, 2013

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why...

Twilight of the Machines

Feral House, 2008

“John Zerzan can now credibly claim the honor of being America’s most famous anarchist. His writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious.”—Derrick Jensen, Utne Reader

The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting...

3ds max 6 Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Whenever I withdrew to the computer room, my wife would say that I was off to my “fun and games.” I would flatly deny this accusation, saying that it was serious work that I was involved in. But later, when I emerged with a twinkle in my eye and excitedly asked her to take a look at my latest rendering, I knew that she was right....

The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating

Oneworld Publications, 2017

"The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales. This irreverent and intelligent expose brings sanity and good sense to one of life's great pleasures." âSteven Pinker, author of Angels of Our Better Nature

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Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory, and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits

Springer, 2000

Today's electronic design and test engineers deal with several types of subsystems, namely, digital, memory, and mixed-signal, each requiring different test and design for testability methods. This book provides a careful selection of essential topics on all three types of circuits. The outcome of testing is product quality, which means `meeting...

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

Addison Wesley, 2010

Essential C# 4.0 is a well-organized,“no-fluff” guide to all versions of C# for programmers at all levels of C# experience. This fully updated edition shows how to make the most of C# 4.0’s new features and programming patterns to write code that is simple, yet powerful.

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BIRT: A Field Guide (3rd Edition) (Eclipse Series)

Addison Wesley, 2011

Application development tools and technology have come a long way since the late 1970s, when I took my first job out of college in Hewlett-Packard Company’s IT (Information Technology) department. Of course, IT was not the term we used to refer to the discipline back then; our preferred acronym was EDP (Electronic Data Processing).

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Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

People have a hard time communicating, and also have a hard time finding business knowledge in the environment. With the sophistication of search technologies like Google, business people expect to be able to get their questions answered about the business just like you can do an internet search. The truth is, knowledge management is primitive...

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