3D graphics and modelling

This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

Master the art of 3D printing with step-by-step tutorials and DIY projectsAre you ready to join the new industrial revolution?

If you're a developer looking to supplement your own data tools and services, this concise ebook covers the most useful sources of public data available today.

Professional Papervision3D describes how Papervision3D works and how real world applications are built, with a clear look at essential topics such as building websites and games, creating virtual tours, and Adobe's Flash 10.

Praise for Previous Volumes"e;This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers.

The networking capabilities of the Java platform have been extended considerably since the first edition of the book.

The widespread adoption of AI and machine learning is revolutionizing many industries today.

A step-by-step guide to computing and graphics in regression analysis In this unique book, leading statisticians Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg expertly blend regression fundamentals and cutting-edge graphical techniques.

Praise for Previous Volumes"e;This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers.

Light and Skin Interactions immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation.

Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV.

Develops the fundamentals for processing point data into a digital mode and presents algorithms for surface reconstruction.

A complete guide to creating usable, realistic game characters with two powerful tools Creating viable game characters requires a combination of skills.

This proceedings volume contains results presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy - "e;Modeling and Simulation in Science"e; held on April 15-22, 2007, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy.

Die bedeutende kulturelle Rolle der Fotografie und die Vielfalt fotografischer Praxis stehen zunehmend im Fokus wissenschaftlicher Studien.

Many books deal with the techniques of designing, building and testing computer models and simulations, but few have seriously examined what models are based on, their inherent limitations, and their essential role in extending human knowledge.

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, Third Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system and its practical implementation.

This book presents a broad collection of models and computational methods - from atomistic to continuum - applied to crystal dislocations.

This book introduces researchers and advanced students in biology and engineering to methods of optimizing biochemical systems of biotechnological relevance.

Building information modelling (BIM) is revolutionising building design and construction.

Here, the world's most active and productive computational scientists from academia and industry present established, effective and powerful tools for understanding catalysts.

This book gives a broad overview of research on sound simulation driven by a variety of applications.

Hands-on intermediate-to-advanced coverage of the leading 3D software Autodesk Maya is the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, and other genres.

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools.

Master the numerical simulation process required to design, test and support mobile and parallel computing systems.

Essential skills for first-time programmers!

In 1984, additive manufacturing represented a new methodology for manipulating matter, consisting of harnessing materials and/or energy to create three-dimensional physical objects.

This book discusses the computational approach in modern statistical physics in a clear yet accessible way, and works out its intimate relations with other approaches in theoretical physics.

If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you'll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data.

Modern systems contain multi-core CPUs and GPUs that have the potential for parallel computing.

Die Perfektion digitaler Technologien hat uns eine makellose Welt versprochen – doch gerade im Fehlerhaften finden wir eine überraschende Quelle für Kreativität und Inspiration.

Get professional training in 3ds Max from this Autodesk Official Training Guide Extremely popular with video game designers as well as architects, 3ds Max offers integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing tools designed to streamline production.

Diffuse X-ray scattering is a rich (virtually untapped) source of local structural information over and above that obtained by conventional crystal structure determination (crystallography).

Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top-selling book.

How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data?

Written by leading experts from around the world, Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Polymer Science comprehensively reviews the latest simulation techniques for macromolecular materials.

3D Design Basics explores basic three-dimensional options for presenting design ideas, including models, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings.

This book demonstrates how to use multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques available in the IBM SPSS mixed-effects program (MIXED).

This book demonstrates how to use multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques available in the IBM SPSS mixed-effects program (MIXED).

A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the "e;reversibility paradox"e;, with modern tools.

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application.

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second.

State-of-the-art coverage of modern computational methods for the analysis and design of beams Analysis and Design of Elastic Beams presents computer models and applications related to thin-walled beams such as those used in mechanical and aerospace designs, where thin, lightweight structures with high strength are needed.

Hands-on intermediate-to-advanced coverage of the leading 3D software Autodesk Maya is the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, and other genres.

From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives.

In this fifth volume of the authoritative series, the simulation of forest fires, flames, and hydrodynamics is presented in the first three articles.

The widespread adoption of AI and machine learning is revolutionizing many industries today.