Graphical and digital media applications

The Mathematical Basis of the UNISURF CAD System deals with the mathematics involved in the use of the UNISURF CAD System.

Computer-aided Design Techniques deals with the tools used in computer-aided design, problems associated with software development for design, and techniques applied in the development of the REDAC system.

Capability-Based Computer Systems focuses on computer programs and their capabilities.

The heart of any system that simulates the physical interaction between objects is collision detection-the ability to detect when two objects have come into contact.

What do you do when your learners know what to do but still aren't doing it?

Games are poised for a major evolution, driven by growth in technical sophistication and audience reach.

"e;Game Feel"e; exposes "e;feel"e; as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet.

Dave Eberly's 3D Game Engine Design was the first professional guide to the essential concepts and algorithms of real-time 3D engines and quickly became a classic of game development.

The first edition of 3D Game Engine Design was an international bestseller that sold over 17,000 copies and became an industry standard.

The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data that are useful for beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.

Game AI Pro2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) in games, drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field.

Its scale, flexibility, cost effectiveness, and fast turnaround are just a few reasons why crowdsourced testing has received so much attention lately.

Written as the successor to Virtual World Design: Creating Immersive Virtual Environments, this book carries the ideas brought forward in its predecessor to new levels of virtual world design exploration and experimentation.

Is the art for your video game taking too long to create?

Expert Guidance on the Math Needed for 3D Game ProgrammingDeveloped from the authors' popular Game Developers Conference (GDC) tutorial, Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Third Edition illustrates the importance of mathematics in 3D programming.

Every animated film and video game production spends a large percentage of its resources and time on advancing the quality of the digital characters inhabiting the world being created.

Most tools developers want to improve the user experience but are not given the time, lack the techniques, or don't know where to begin.

Scholars and professionals from all over the world, across experience levels and the gender and sexuality spectrum, share experiences and analysis of romance and sexuality in video games.

Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects IndustryIn Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software.

Teach Your Students How to Create a Graphics ApplicationIntroduction to Computer Graphics: A Practical Learning Approach guides students in developing their own interactive graphics application.

Character rigging is the method with which you create a system for animating a character.

Physics forms the basis for many of the motions and behaviors seen in both the real world and in the virtual worlds of animated films, visual effects, and computer games.

A practical introduction, the second edition of Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics shows you how to animate fully three-dimensional incompressible flow.

Computer games represent a significant software application domain for innovative research in software engineering techniques and technologies.

The Key to Fully Understanding the Basics of a 3D WorldProminently used in games, movies, and on television, 3D graphics are tools of creation used to enhance how material and light come together to manipulate objects in 3D space.

See How to Unobtrusively Incorporate Good Teaching into Your Game's MechanicsLearn to Play: Designing Tutorials for Video Games shows how to embed a tutorial directly into your game design mechanics so that your games naturally and comfortably teach players to have fun.

This book addresses the new interaction modalities that are becoming possible with new devices by looking at user interfaces from an input perspective.

Integrating hands-on guidance with theoretical game design concepts, this book gives readers a solid foundation in game development.

See Why Blender Is Right for Your Studio's PipelineBlender for Animation and Film-Based Production explores why Blender is ideal for animation films.

Understand Video Games as Works of Science Fiction and Interactive Stories Science Fiction Video Games focuses on games that are part of the science fiction genre, rather than set in magical milieux or exaggerated versions of our own world.

The world is becoming increasingly mobile.

Complete Coverage of the Current Practice of Computer GraphicsComputer Graphics: From Pixels to Programmable Graphics Hardware explores all major areas of modern computer graphics, starting from basic mathematics and algorithms and concluding with OpenGL and real-time graphics.

Complete Coverage of the Current Practice of Computer GraphicsComputer Graphics: From Pixels to Programmable Graphics Hardware explores all major areas of modern computer graphics, starting from basic mathematics and algorithms and concluding with OpenGL and real-time graphics.

In GPU Pro5: Advanced Rendering Techniques, section editors Wolfgang Engel, Christopher Oat, Carsten Dachsbacher, Michal Valient, Wessam Bahnassi, and Marius Bjorge have once again assembled a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming.

This book addresses microwave chemistry at both the physical and molecular level.

The Definitive Game Narrative Guide is the ultimate start and end point for storytelling in video games.

Ableton Live 9 is a groundbreaking music production and performance application whose uniquely nonlinear and incredibly flexible features set it far apart from all the other digital audio applications.

Power Tools for Studio One 2 is an introduction to the newest and one of the most interesting Digital Audio Workstation programs: PreSonus Studio One.

The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, reader reception and more.

The information environments that modern society requires us to master and engage in are based in literacy and digital communication.

This is an introductory textbook focusing on games (specifically interaction and graphics) as a pathway into programming.

I spent the first twenty six years of my life in Rome.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

This book is the third in a series of books collecting the best papers from the three main regional conferences on electronic system design languages, HDLCon in the United States, APCHDL in Asia-Pacific and FDL in Europe.

Design automation of electronic and hybrid systems is a steadily growing field of interest and a permanent challenge for researchers in Electronics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

This book aims at providing a view of the current trends in the development of research on Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems.

System-on-a-Chip (SOC) integrated circuits composed of embedded cores are now commonplace.

Embedded core processors are becoming a vital part of today's system-on-a-chip in the growing areas of telecommunications, multimedia and consumer electronics.