People who have been seeking a flashier version of PowerPoint have found it—and it's Prezi. A Web-based, slide-free presentation tool, Prezi allows users to create and give rich, Web-based presentations complete with dynamic content,...

Why use Microsoft Flight Simulator for real-world flight training? Because it gives you the best possible head start and enables you to learn at your convenience. Flight Simulator provides scenario-based training that lets you practice handling almost any situation. It offers...

GRAPHIC DESIGN BASICS combines design principles, history, and current technology to present students a comprehensive introduction to the field of graphic design. Keeping pace with rapid changes in the field of design, while maintaining a consistently high academic quality, the text emphasizes design structure, visual perception and digital...

• Learn to use the facilities provided by D3.js to create data-driven visualizations
• Explore the concepts of D3.js through examples that enable you to quickly create visualizations including charts, network diagrams, and maps
• Get practical examples of visualizations using...

Big data is big news! Every company, industry, not-for-profit,and government agency wants and needs to analyze and leveragedatasets that can quickly become ponderously large. Datavisualization software enables...

From an early age, I wanted to be an artist. I was drawn first to comic books and then to science-fiction literature because of the wondrous images that fed my artistic imagination. When I read Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov as an adolescent, I would spend as much time studying the covers as I did reading the books,...

To say that the graphical imagery in video games is very important to the games industry is a bit of an understatement. The graphics in games are so important that they often can make or break a game's success. It is true that all other aspects of a game are important, but the visuals are at times the main selling point along with game...

• Master every topic on both new 2011 A+ exams.
• Assess your knowledge and focus your learning.
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• Explores current graphics programming techniques including GPU-based...

World History: Patterns of Interaction combines a highly visual approach with primary sources to help all students understand world history and make global connections.
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High-interest, engaging visuals, interactive technology, differentiated instruction, and customized test preparation help make history...

Why aren’t videogames getting better? Why does it feel like we’re playing the same games, over and over again? Why aren’t games helping us transform our lives, like great...