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Discovering Saints in Britain
Av John Vince
Häftad, 2001
111 kr
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This book tells the life stories of the more familiar saints, the associated folklore, the patronage, the emblems, the place names, the shrines and the festivals. There is a calendar of saints' days.
Discovering Horse Brasses
Av John Vince
Häftad, 2010
91 kr
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Horse brasses are flat, generally round, ornaments for decorating the harness of draught horses. First devised as charms to keep the animal safe, brasses later became purely decorative. This book traces the history of horse brasses, from the plain, simple early examples through to the more advanced …
Rotation Transforms for Computer Graphics
Av John Vince
Häftad, 2011
681 kr
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Rotation transforms are used everywhere in computer graphics from rotating pictures in editing software, to providing an arbitrary view of a 3D virtual environment. Although the former is a trivial operation, the latter can be a challenging task. Rotation Transforms for Computer Graphics covers a …
Rotation Transforms for Computer Graphics
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2011
877 kr
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Rotation transforms are used everywhere in computer graphics from rotating pictures in editing software, to providing an arbitrary view of a 3D virtual environment. Although the former is a trivial operation, the latter can be a challenging task. Rotation Transforms for Computer Graphics covers a …
Introduction to Virtual Reality
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2011
813 kr
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During the last decade the word virtual became one of the most exposed words in the English language. Today we have virtual universities, virtual offices, virtual pets, virtual actors, virtual museums, virtual doctors - and all because of virtual reality. So what is virtual reality? Essentially, …
Quaternions for Computer Graphics
Av John Vince
Inbunden, 2011
920 kr
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Introduction.-Number Sets and Algebra.-Complex Numbers.-The Complex Plane.-Quaternion Algebra.-3D Rotation Transforms.-Quaternions in Space.-Conclusion.
Quaternions for Computer Graphics
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2011
913 kr
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton was a genius, and will be remembered for his significant contributions to physics and mathematics. The Hamiltonian, which is used in quantum physics to describe the total energy of a system, would have been a major achievement for anyone, but Hamilton also invented …
Handbook of Computer Animation
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2012
1670 kr
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One of the challenges facing professionals working in computer animation is keeping abreast of the latest developments and future trends - some of which are determined by industry where the state-of-the-art is continuously being re-defined by the latest computer-generated film special effects, …
Advances in Modelling, Animation and Rendering
E-bok, 2012
3013 kr
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"Advances in computer technology and developments such as the Internet provide a constant momentum to design new techniques and algorithms to support computer graphics. Modelling, animation and rendering remain principal topics in the filed of computer graphics and continue to attract researchers …
Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments
Av John Vince, Andries Van Dam m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
3013 kr
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Rae Earnshawand John A. Vince --_. . _----- 1 Introduction The USPresident''s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)recently advised the US Senate of the strategic importance of investing in IT for the 21st century, particularlyin the areas of software,human-computer interaction, …
Digital Content Creation
E-bok, 2012
2174 kr
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The very word "digital" has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition. Even the prefix digital, when associ ated with familiar sectors such as radio, television, photography and telecommunications, has reinvented these industries, and provided a unique opportunity to …
Essential Computer Animation fast
How to Understand the Techniques and Potential of Computer Animation
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2012
588 kr
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Computer Animation is now worlds away from its early beginnings when programs merely mimicked the hand drawn cartoon process. Its now regularly used for creating wonderful special effects in major movies like Titanic, Toy Story, Antz and Bugs Life. John Vince tells you all about: The basic …
Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media
E-bok, 2012
739 kr
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As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use …
Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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Although the computer''s life has been relatively short, it has brought about an information revolution that is transforming our world on a scale that is still difficult to comprehend. This digital convergence is shaping society, technology and the media for the next millennium. Areas as diverse as …
High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation
Proceedings of the International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Swansea 3–4 July 1995
Av John Vince, Peter Townsend m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
1502 kr
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This book contains mainly a selection of papers that were presented at the International Workshop on High Performance Computing/or Computer Graphics and Visualisation, held in Swansea, United Kingdom on 3-4 July 1995. The workshop was sponsored by the HEFCWI Initiative on ·Parallel Computing - …
Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments
Av Rae Earnshaw, Richard Guedj m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
2252 kr
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Rae Earnshawand John A. Vince --_. . _----- 1 Introduction The USPresident's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)recently advised the US Senate of the strategic importance of investing in IT for the 21st century, particularlyin the areas of software,human-computer interaction, scalable …
Digital Content Creation
Häftad, 2012
1691 kr
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The very word "digital" has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition. Even the prefix digital, when associ ated with familiar sectors such as radio, television, photography and telecommunications, has reinvented these industries, and provided a unique opportunity to …
Handbook of Computer Animation
Av John Vince
Häftad, 2013
1242 kr
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One of the challenges facing professionals working in computer animation is keeping abreast of the latest developments and future trends - some of which are determined by industry where the state-of-the-art is continuously being re-defined by the latest computer-generated film special effects, …
Advances in Modelling, Animation and Rendering
Häftad, 2012
2252 kr
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"Advances in computer technology and developments such as the Internet provide a constant momentum to design new techniques and algorithms to support computer graphics. Modelling, animation and rendering remain principal topics in the filed of computer graphics and continue to attract researchers …
Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use …
Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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Although the computer's life has been relatively short, it has brought about an information revolution that is transforming our world on a scale that is still difficult to comprehend. This digital convergence is shaping society, technology and the media for the next millennium. Areas as diverse as …
Essential Virtual Reality fast
How to Understand the Techniques and Potential of Virtual Reality
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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Essential Virtual Reality fast tells you what is and isn VR! John Vince provides a potted history of Virtual Reality and explains in easy-to-understand terms what computer graphics are and how they are integral to VR systems. You''ll see how important it is to understand the part human factors have …
Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization
Av John Dill, Rae Earnshaw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1691 kr
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The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications. Visualization is concerned with exploring data and information graphically in such a way as to gain information from the data and …
Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization
Av Pak Chung Wong, John Vince m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
2127 kr
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The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications. Visualization is concerned with exploring data and information graphically in such a way as to gain information from the data and …
Digital Media: The Future
E-bok, 2013
1459 kr
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This volume presents state-of-the-art research from a wide area of subjects brought about by the digital convergence of computing, television, telecommunications and the World-Wide Web. It represents a unique snapshot of trends across a wide range of subjects including virtual environments; virtual …
Essential Mathematics for Computer Graphics fast
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2013
1209 kr
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Baffled by maths? Then don''t give up hope. John Vince will show you how to understand many of the mathematical ideas used in computer animation, virtual reality, CAD, and other areas of computer graphics. In ten chapters you will rediscover - and hopefully discover for the first time a new way of …
Matrix Transforms for Computer Games and Animation
Av John Vince
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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Matrix transforms are ubiquitous within the world of computer graphics, where they have become an invaluable tool in a programmer’s toolkit for solving everything from 2D image scaling to 3D rotation about an arbitrary axis. Virtually every software system and hardware graphics processor uses …
Matrix Transforms for Computer Games and Animation
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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Matrix transforms are ubiquitous within the world of computer graphics, where they have become an invaluable tool in a programmer’s toolkit for solving everything from 2D image scaling to 3D rotation about an arbitrary axis. Virtually every software system and hardware graphics processor uses …
Calculus for Computer Graphics
Av John Vince
E-bok, 2013
813 kr
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Students studying computer animation and computer games have to be familiar with geometry, matrices, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curves and surfaces, and as computer graphics software becomes increasingly sophisticated, calculus is also being used to resolve its associated problems. …
