In this book, leading architects and landscape architects provide their perspectives on the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts that can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.
This book describes recently developed research methods used to study complex problems in fluid engineering, especially optical flow measurement, flow visualization and numerical methods.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of information retrieval by considering both Text Based Information Retrieval (TBIR) and Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), together with new research topics.
In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.
This book explores the digitization of culture as a means of experiencing and understanding cultural heritage in Namibia and from international perspectives.
This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings?
The book represents the culmination of a hugely successful heritage preservation project initiated by the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology.
In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality.
The primary objective of this book is to provide an easy approach to the basic principles of Engineering Drawing, which is one of the core subjects for undergraduate students in all branches of engineering.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Subdivision Surface Modeling Technology focusing not only on fundamental theories but also on practical applications.
By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century.
This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.
This book presents three projects that demonstrate thefundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition the layoutdesign, evaluation and optimization.
Based on simple examples, this book offers a short introduction to the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, a specialized program for non-linear problems (implicit solver) distributed by the MSC Software Corporation, which is commonly used in academia and industry.
This edited volume comprises select chapters on advanced technologies for 3D printing and additive manufacturing and how these technologies have changed the face of direct, digital technologies for rapid production of models, prototypes and patterns.
Turn your love of video games into a new love of programming by learning the ins and outs of writing code while also learning how to keep track of high scores, what video game heroes and loot boxes are made of, how the dreaded RNG (random number generation) works, and much, much more.
Este libro pretende dar a conocer de forma práctica los aspectos relacionados con el Marketing, la Administración y la Gerencia básica para las mipymes colombianas.
Cuando se trata de diseñar, no sólo se necesita conocer las herramientas y la tecnología a emplear, también se deben tener conocimientos sobre lógica, psicología, sociología, política y cultura, entre otros.
This entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series takes a look at the shooter genre: one that has grown with the times and whose influence can be felt from indie teams to major studios.
Adobe Flash proporciona un sistema para crear animación y objetos interactivos destinados, sobre todo, a las páginas Web de Internet, debido al escaso tamaño que ofrecen las películas resultantes.
La presente edicion es una compilacion complementaria que evidencia el desarrollo de iniciativas investigativas del Departamento de Diseno de la Universidad del Cauca en torno a la disciplina tipografica a nivel regional, nacional e internacional.
En el prefacio a esta segunda edición del ya clásico La invención del Tercer Mundo: Construcción y deconstrucción del desarrollo (1996), el autor afirma que ha llegado la hora de reanudar el debate del postdesarrollo con ahínco.
Este libro es un esfuerzo colaborativo para evidenciar la necesidad y la enorme inquietud existente en investigar y reflexionar alrededor de la animación como fenómeno cultural y social.
The Fourth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based S- tems (SITIS 2008) has been successfully held during the period 30th November to 3rd of December of the year 2008 in Bali, Indonesia.
Human action analyses and recognition are challenging problems due to large variations in human motion and appearance, camera viewpoint and environment settings.
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents.
Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has transcended the discipline of design and is now widely used in business and elsewhere.
This book is primarily intended as a research monograph that could also be used in graduate courses for the design of parallel algorithms in matrix computations.
This book is based on contributions to the Seventh European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication that was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 1999 under the auspices of the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET).
Researchers and educational software developers have talked about building authoring tools for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs), adaptive and knowled- based instructional systems, and other forms of advanced-technology learning environments (ATLEs) ever since these forms of educational software were introduced in the 1970s.
This book contains selected contributions from the 6th CIRP International Seminar on Computer-Aided Tolerancing, which was held on 22-24 March, 1999, at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
This book focuses in particular on Geometrical Product Specification and Verification which is an integrated tolerancing view and metrology proposed for ISO/TC213.
Computer Aided techniques, Applications, Systems and tools for Geometric Modeling are extremely useful in a number of academic and industrial settings.
The advent of the digital era, the Internet, and the development of fast com- puting devices that can access mass storage servers at high communication bandwidths have brought within our reach the world of ambient intelligent systems.
