Duik Bassel: The Source Code Book
Duik Bassel: The Source Code Book

Author: Nicolas DuFresne

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780244536633

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Duik is a free and open source character rigging and animation tool set. It facilitates character, props, and camera animation. Duik creates rigs which allow the animator to manipulate the characters in a very intuitive way. It has an international success; it is used to create TV series, advertising, motion design, video games, music videos, short movies and feature films. It is used in many companies all around the world. This book contains the complete source code of Duik. It's a manifesto for open source software. It's a way to physically show how open source software is different from other software, to show and explain how important it is, how even this small free software may weigh to change the world. Maybe it's also a work of art. Maybe you can just use it to wedge some furniture.

Duik Bassel - User Guide
Duik Bassel - User Guide

Author: Nicolas Dufresne

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0244836418

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This is the Black and White version of the second edition of the Duik Bassel user guide. Duik is a free script for the Animation software Adobe After Effects. It eases character, props, and camera animation. Duik creates rigs which allow the animator to manipulate the characters in a very intuitive way. Created in 2009 in France, very simple at its beginning, Duik is now very complete and has an international success; it is used to create TV series, advertising, motion design, video games, music videos, short movies and feature films. It is used in many companies all around the world. Duik is free software (open source), since its creation, and the new version Duik Bassel, was financed by a Crowdfunding campaign which was a great success in the beginning of 2017. This success allowed a complete renovation with a lot of new features and improvements, while creating a large international comunity of users.

2021 International Electronics Symposium (IES)
2021 International Electronics Symposium (IES)

Author: IEEE Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781665443470

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Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility, High Voltage Engineering and Insulations Technology, Power Generation Technology, Power System Dynamic, Stability and Control, Power System Protection, Reliability and Security, Electric Power Transmissions and Distributions, Power Electronic Converter Topologies, Design and Control, Switch Mode Power Supplies and UPS, Electric Drives and Electrical Machines, Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Technology, Energy Storage System and Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Measurement and Instrumentations, Nano Technology, Micro Electro Mechanical System, Sensor, RFID, and Electronic Design, Material and Device, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Telecommunication, Information modelling, Knowledge acquisition and accumulation, Knowledge discovery, Knowledge management, Information systems and applications, Human computer interaction and Modelling Social media engineering, E Learning and educational

Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

Author: Katja Kwastek

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0262528290

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An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art. Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike. Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art. Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork and then develops an aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her theory to specific works of interactive media art, including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive installations, and performance—with case studies of works by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby, Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory.

Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media
Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9004308237

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of ‘liquidity’ contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, however, that the idea of ‘liquid’ spaces appeared long before the digital creation of augmented or virtual environments, the contributors to this volume trace its reemerging throughout the history of the visual arts and media. By focusing on selected works of painting and architecture, photography and cinema, video installation and media art, they explore the variability of immersive experiences according to the different media environments and interfaces that constitute the actual sites of historically shifting relations between media and users. Contributors are: Matthias Bauer, Jörg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Krüger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Prümm, Martin Warnke.

People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture
People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture

Author: Tom McEwan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-20

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1846282497

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As a new medium for questionnaire delivery, the Internet has the potential to revolutionize the survey process. Online (Web-based) questionnaires provide several advantages over traditional survey methods in terms of cost, speed, appearance, flexibility, functionality, and usability [Bandilla et al. 2003; Dillman 2000; Kwak & Radler 2002]. Online-questionnaires can provide many capabilities not found in traditional paper-based questionnaires: they can include pop-up instructions and error messages; they can incorporate links; and it is possible to encode difficult skip patterns making such patterns virtually invisible to respondents. Despite this, and the emergence of numerous tools to support online-questionnaire creation, current electronic survey design typically replicates the look-and-feel of pap- based questionnaires, thus failing to harness the full power of the electronic survey medium. A recent environmental scan of online-questionnaire design tools found that little, if any, support is incorporated within these tools to guide questionnaire design according to best-practice [Lumsden & Morgan 2005]. This paper briefly introduces a comprehensive set of guidelines for the design of online-questionnaires. It then focuses on an informal observational study that has been conducted as an initial assessment of the value of the set of guidelines as a practical reference guide during online-questionnaire design. 2 Background Online-questionnaires are often criticized in terms of their vulnerability to the four standard survey error types: namely, coverage, non-response, sampling, and measurement errors.

Filer's Files
Filer's Files

Author: George A. Filer

Publisher: Infinity Pub

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780741428127

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"I know other astronauts share my feelings and we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs!" Astronaut Gordon Cooper: 1985

Giants on Record
Giants on Record

Author: Jim Vieira

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939149800

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Originally published: Glastonbury, Somerset, UK: Avalon Rising Publications, 2015.

The UFO People
The UFO People

Author: Mj Banias

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781786770912

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We are haunted by UFOs. They drift in and out of our culture in movies and on television, on billboards and in books. They are everywhere. However, for one small community, they are much more than the fodder of science fiction storytelling - they alter the entire fabric of reality. Part narrative journey and part cultural study, The UFO People is a challenge to the UFO subculture and the broader public to recognize that UFOs, and the people who study them, challenge societal norms, institutions, and the many ideologies we assume to be true. This book tells the stories of UFO witnesses and experiencers of the paranormal, and ties in interviews and research of some of the most famous and infamous names in the UFO subculture. With critical questions that touch on history, gender, race, culture and philosophy, this book questions the very nature of UFOs and the people who study them. It delves into the reality that the UFO phenomenon, real or not, abandons us to a ghostly realm where nothing should be taken for granted. Take a journey into a curious culture and meet individuals who have been forever changed by the impossible. Meet the UFO people.

Pastoral Theology from a Global Perspective
Pastoral Theology from a Global Perspective

Author: Henry S. Wilson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2005-01-17

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1597520578

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Multi-cultural and global in design, 'Pastoral Theology from a Global Perspective' brings concrete and applicable resources to Christian leaders around the world who are struggling with problems of pastoral care. This practical, easy-to-use approach to pastoral theology is designed to hone pastoral skills in five central areas: -the role of women in church and society -empowering marginalized peoples -economic justice and ecology -reconciliation and peacemaking -caring for human needs Fifteen case studies, accompanied by teaching notes and commentaries, illustrate the diversity and commonalities of pastoral care in different parts of the world: an ordained Indian woman assigned as an associate pastor is threatened by male church members who say she is not permitted to preach from the pulpit or serve the Eucharist; missionaries to Haiti face critical decisions about supplying chemical fertilizer to a destitute hillside village; a Hispanic community considers illegally occupying a government nature reserve to save their community sheep herd; a Ugandan pastor deals with violence and healing in a community struggling to recover from civil war.