Graphical and digital media applications

Make the Web Work for YouYou know how to design.

Web Design Inspiration at a GlanceVolume 2 of The Web Designers Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work.

Inspiring Web Design at a GlanceThe Web Designer's Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more.

This book takes a real-world, in-depth journey through the game-design process, from the initial blue sky sessions to pitching for a green light.

Get Real-World Insight from Experienced Professionals in the OpenGL CommunityWith OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and WebGL, real-time rendering is becoming available everywhere, from AAA games to mobile phones to web pages.

This hands-on guide takes you through the complete process of Unity iOS game development.

GPU Pro3, the third volume in the GPU Pro book series, offers practical tips and techniques for creating real-time graphics that are useful to beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.

Good or bad level design can make or break any game, so it is surprising how little reference material exists for level designers.

How can video games be fun and immerse players in fantastic worlds where anything seems possible?

Shadow Algorithms Data Miner provides a high-level understanding of the complete set of shadow concepts and algorithms, addressing their usefulness from a larger graphics system perspective.

This book, written and edited by members of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Game Writing Special Interest Group, follows the acclaimed Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing to deliver practical advice from seasoned veterans on the special challenges of writing for first-person shooter games (FPS), role-playing games (R

This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment.

Using Unreal Engine 3, the authors teach aspiring game makers the fundamentals of designing a computer game.

The author takes readers on an in-depth walkthrough of the Torque Game Engine---one of the most popular, powerful, and easy to use game engines available today.

Multiplayer Gaming and Engine Coding for the Torque Game Engine shows game programmers how to get the most out of the Torque Game Engine (TGE), which is an inexpensive professional game engine available from GarageGames.

For the first time in history, Microsoft has opened up its exclusive gaming platform to anyone who is interested in creating console games.

With the increase in computing speed and due to the high quality of the optical effects it achieves, ray tracing is becoming a popular choice for interactive and animated rendering.

Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and real-time rendering.

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.