Graphical and digital media applications

This undergraduate-level computer graphics text provides the reader with conceptual and practical insights into how to approach building a majority of the interactive graphics applications they encounter daily.

Audio Anecdotes is a book about digital sound.

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work.

Basics of Game Design is for anyone wanting to become a professional game designer.

This book uses examples in OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language to present the theory and application of shader programming.

Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math.

This book brings the insights of game professionals, DCC creators, hardware vendors, and current researchers together into a collection that focuses on the most underrepresented and critical part of game production: tools development.

Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues.

Creating Games offers a comprehensive overview of the technology, content, and mechanics of game design.

Driven by consumer-market applications that enjoy steadily increasing economic importance, graphics hardware and rendering algorithms are a central focus of computer graphics research.

Written for game programmers and developers, this book covers GPU techniques and supporting applications that are commonly used in games and similar real-time 3D applications.

This book focuses on advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time with any shader language available.

Supported with code examples and the authors' real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind.

Implementing physical simulations for real-time games is a complex task that requires a solid understanding of a wide range of concepts from the fields of mathematics, physics, and software engineering.

This book covers essential tools and techniques for programming the graphics processing unit.

This comprehensive work provides the fundamentals of computer facial animation and brings into sharper focus techniques that are becoming mainstream in the industry.

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

This collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and techniques for those working in the digital audio field.

This collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and techniques for those working in the digital audio field.

Learn to make games that are more fun and engaging!

This book explains how to use the symbolic differentiation system D* for applications in computer games and engineering simulation.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to visual computing, dealing with the modeling and synthesis of visual data by means of computers.

Direct3D 11 offers such a wealth of capabilities that users can sometimes get lost in the details of specific APIs and their implementation.

This book contains short articles that focus on a particular technique, describe a clever trick, or offer practical advice on game engine development.

This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world.

A comprehensive treatment of various approaches to monochrome and digital halftoning.

Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, 3D Graphics for Game Programming presents must-know information for success in interactive graphics.

Culture Specific Items in Chinese to English Video Game Translation aims to investigate the Chinese to English translation of culture-specific items (CSIs) in the localisation of a wuxia role-playing game (RPG).

Advanced Software Applications in Japan

The world is changing.

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity.

Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript.

Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 is a fun and creative approach to learning programming.

Unleash your iPod touch and take it to the limit using secret tips and techniques.

Physics for Flash Games, Animation, and Simulations teaches ActionScript programmers how to incorporate real physics into their Flash animations, games, user interfaces, and simulations.

Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs shows you how to add the power of social networking to your mobile apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer is your gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication.

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity is perfect for those who would like to come to grips with programming Unity.

Windows Live Movie Maker is a small but powerful movie editing application from Microsoft.

This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills.

Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun.

How would you like to share your calendar, access your e-mail, or create and share documents, all online from your smartphone/mobile device, netbook, or desktop?

What the heck is Facebook?

If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you.

Do you like to build things?

Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics.

If you're familiar with the basics of Flash, then The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 will take you further in all aspects of the application, animation, sound, 3D, inverse kinematics, the drawing tools, ActionScript, and much more.

We've all sneaked the odd five minutes here or there playing the latest Flash game that someone sent round the office, but creating those games is trickier than it looks.