22 products

In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative titled SONG OF TWO WORLDS, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After decades

COLLADA is a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an open standard Digital Asset schema for interactive 3D applications. This book explains in detail how to use the COLLADA technology in a project

...covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work...includes examples of techniques for achieving common effects.

Ties together applied mathematics, applied statistics, and engineering by applying general theories and concepts to the specific and familiar example of the human face. Includes fully worked out examples of two approaches

...provides short articles on current research and development that deal with the production, capture, and manipulation of sound by computers.

Like virtual reality, augmented reality is becoming an emerging platform in new application areas for museums, edutainment, home entertainment, research, industry, and the art communities using novel approaches which have taken augmented

Data structures and tools from computational geometry help to solve problems in computer graphics; these methods have been widely adopted by the computer graphics community yielding elegant and efficient algorithms. This book

...explores the structure and implementation of software packages

Consider this -- Robots will one day be able to write poetry and prose so touching that it will make men weep compose symphonies that rival the work of Mozart judge a

...comprises an imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner

This book is a compilation of the most important and widely applicable methods for evluating and approximating integrals. It is an indispensable time saver for engineers and scientists needing to evaluate integrals