The most complete, extensive, and accessible guide for LightWave 8. Inside Lightwave 8 is chock full of step-by-step tutorials on every topic LightWave users need to know. It is also clear, well-organized and easy to use--essential for a comprehensive book when you need to find answers to their questions quickly. Dan Ablan, award-winning animator and LightWave author, offers Inside LightWave X to get you up-to-speed and enhances productivity with NewTek's LightWave 3D software. No other LightWav...
Kai's Power Tools 3: Visual QuickStart Guide focuses on the bestselling plug-in set that allows users to achieve stunning visual effects in a today's top graphics programs. KPT 3's expanded and enhanced collection of plug-ins gives users the ability to manipulate text and images in artistic ways. Its effects can be seen in publishing, advertising, graphics, web design, and even animation. Kai's Power Tools are used with Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, FreeHand, and other programs that support...
Flash 4 Hands-on-training (Lynda Weinman's Hands-on-training S.)
by Lynda Weinman
-- Written by a best-selling author, renowned teacher, sought-after speaker, and leading Web designer.-- Offers the ideal way to learn this terrific Web tool, thanks to hands-on classroom-proven exercises combined with support from the CD-ROM.Macromedia Flash is the industry-standard tool that enables users to create graphics, animation, and interactivity for expressive, imaginative Web sites. Version 4 has been substantially updated, with an interface that's more in line with those for other Ma...
Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.0 for Windows Illustrated
by Katherine Murray
Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)
by Barbara Brundage
After more than two years, Adobe has finally released a new version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac. Version 6 packs a lot more editing firepower than iPhoto, and this Missing Manual puts every feature into a clear, easy-to-understand context - something that no other book on Elements does! "Photoshop Elements 6" is perfect for scrapbooking, making email-ready slideshows, and creating Web galleries. It has lots of new features such as Guided Edit for performing basic editing tasks, an improved...
Classical and Discrete Differential Geometry
by David Xianfeng Gu and Emil Saucan
This book introduces differential geometry and cutting-edge findings from the discipline by incorporating both classical approaches and modern discrete differential geometry across all facets and applications, including graphics and imaging, physics and networks. With curvature as the centerpiece, the authors present the development of differential geometry, from curves to surfaces, thence to higher dimensional manifolds; and from smooth structures to metric spaces, weighted manifolds and compl...
Introduction to Text Visualization (Atlantis Briefs in Artificial Intelligence, #1)
by Nan Cao and Weiwei Cui
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. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept of information visualization and visual analysis, followed by a brief survey of the field of text visualization and commonly used data models for converting document into a structured form for visualiza...
Computer Animation Techniques
Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)
by Chris Grover
Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You've come to the right guide. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all the code for you. With this book, you'll be designing great-looking web elements in no time. The important stuff you need to know: Get to know the workspace. Learn how Adobe Edge Animate performs its ma...
A Hybrid Approach for Power Plant Fault Diagnostics (Studies in Computational Intelligence, #743)
by Tamiru Alemu Lemma
This book provides a hybrid approach to fault detection and diagnostics. It presents a detailed analysis related to practical applications of the fault detection and diagnostics framework, and highlights recent findings on power plant nonlinear model identification and fault diagnostics. The effectiveness of the methods presented is tested using data acquired from actual cogeneration and cooling plants (CCPs). The models presented were developed by applying Neuro-Fuzzy (NF) methods. The book off...
Web Recommendations Systems
by K. R. Venugopal, K. C. Srikantaiah, and Sejal Santosh Nimbhorkar
This book focuses on Web recommender systems, offering an overview of approaches to develop these state-of-the-art systems. It also presents algorithmic approaches in the field of Web recommendations by extracting knowledge from Web logs, Web page content and hyperlinks. Recommender systems have been used in diverse applications, including query log mining, social networking, news recommendations and computational advertising, and with the explosive growth of Web content, Web recommendations hav...
This book gathers selected papers presented at the conference "Advances in 3D Image and Graphics Representation, Analysis, Computing and Information Technology," one of the first initiatives devoted to the problems of 3D imaging in all contemporary scientific and application areas. The aim of the conference was to establish a platform for experts to combine their efforts and share their ideas in the related areas in order to promote and accelerate future development. This second volume discusses...
Advanced Global Illumination, Second Edition
by Philip Dutre, Philippe Bekaert, and Kavita Bala
This book provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a theoretical basis for the algorithms presented. Topics include: - Physics of light transport - Monte Carlo methods - General strategies for solving the rendering equation - Stochastic path-tracing algorithms such as ray tracing and light tracing - Stochastic radiosity including photon density estimation and hiera...
The Cinema 4D 9 Handbook provides a complete introduction to the powerful and affordable C4D program, and teaches the fundamental principles of 3D. In this completely updated edition, users will find insightful tips and techniques for maximizing C4D and learning the vast array of new features in version 9, including interface enhancements like the new HUD and modeling shortcuts. Also covered are the new modeling procedures including N-Gons and auto-selection, tweak-selection, along with subpoly...
Dig into Visio 2003-and discover how you can really put your business diagrams and technical drawings to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds all in concise, fast-answer format. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks, and challenge yourself to new levels of Visio mastery! Explore better ways to visualize your business-from organization charts and floorplans to bus...
New Trends in Neural Computation (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #686)
Neural computation arises from the capacity of nervous tissue to process information and accumulate knowledge in an intelligent manner. Conventional computational machines have encountered enormous difficulties in duplicatingsuch functionalities. This has given rise to the development of Artificial Neural Networks where computation is distributed over a great number of local processing elements with a high degree of connectivityand in which external programming is replaced wi...
In this fully updated edition, readers will learn professional cinematic techniques to create their own effective, professional multimedia presentations. The text explains QuickTime--the digital-video standard developed by Apple Computer--as well as the crafts of moviemaking and editing.