Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible
Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible

Author: Peter M. Plantec

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 9781568848419

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Learn the tips and techniques you'll need to take the plunge into the exciting visual world of 3D animation. From beginner to broadcast pro, this guide presents a complete overview of 3d graphics and trueSpace, offers expert tips for visualizing 3D on a 2D surface, and more. Sure to educate and amaze trueSpace users, the CD-ROM includes a fully functional version of trueSpace.

Virtual Humans
Virtual Humans

Author: Peter M. Plantec

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780814472217

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"Foreword by Ray Kurzweil, author, The Age of Spiritual Machines ""Virtual humans"" may seem like something out of science fiction, but they are already here. Companies use them as website hosts, individuals use them as personal assistants, and people interact with them in computer games, educational applications, and many other arenas. The possibilities are limitless, but the most amazing thing is that anyone can create a ""V-human"" from scratch. Virtual Humans gives not just start-to-finish instructions for designing a charming synthetic person, but also a CD-ROM containing the tools and techniques to make it real. Readers will learn how to: * create their own authentic and engaging personalities * apply VH technology to business and individual projects * add synthetic voices and realistic faces to virtual humans * use personality psychology and humor in character design * design advanced emotion expression engines This book-and-CD package is the first of its kind and a landmark on a par with the first build-your-own-Web-site products. Readers will be among the first to create ultra-realistic, versatile V-human personalities, and will start well ahead of what is soon to be a tidal wave of worldwide interest."

Inside TrueSpace 4
Inside TrueSpace 4

Author: Frank Rivera

Publisher: New Riders Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 716

ISBN-13: 9781562059576

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Written by a leading trueSpace expert, this professional level book is for 3D graphics professionals who want to master the skills necessary to stand out in a highly competitive industry. The CD-ROM contains valuable shareware plug-ins, various sample textures and models, exercise files, and a trueSpace 4 demo.

Creating Web Sites Bible
Creating Web Sites Bible

Author: Phillip Crowder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-06-23

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13: 0470372591

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Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting-edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one-stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more Brand-new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools Hands-on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs

Creating Web Sites Bible
Creating Web Sites Bible

Author: David A. Crowder

Publisher: Wiley Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13:

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Jam-packed with more than 800 pages of expert advice and hands-on guidance, this book has everything readers need to build their own cutting-edge Web sites A one-stop resource that delivers the scoop on everything from HTML, tables, and forms to JavaScript and Flash Brand-new chapters cover getting attention with Google AdWords, building Yahoo! and Amazon.com stores, creating great eBay auctions, and getting paid with PayPal Includes new information on designing with cascading style sheets, syndicating a site with RSS, building a blog, and more

Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible
Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible

Author: Brian Underdahl

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-09-03

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13:

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Whether readers are novices or experienced users, the step-by-step tutorials and reference resources in this book will help them get the most out of Director.

Photoshop 3 for Windows 95 Bible
Photoshop 3 for Windows 95 Bible

Author: Deke McClelland

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13:

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Here's the ultimate hands-on reference for artists, designers, and anyone who works with today's leading image editing software. McClelland covers everything from Photoshop fundamentals to extensive coverage of advanced features and techniques. The book contains everything you'll need to know about specifying colors, retouching, corrective filtering and cropping. McClelland, a bestselling author, has written over 30 books about desktop publishing and graphics.

The Computer Graphics Manual
The Computer Graphics Manual

Author: David Salomon

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-09-18

Total Pages: 1559

ISBN-13: 0857298860

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This book presents a broad overview of computer graphics (CG), its history, and the hardware tools it employs. Covering a substantial number of concepts and algorithms, the text describes the techniques, approaches, and algorithms at the core of this field. Emphasis is placed on practical design and implementation, highlighting how graphics software works, and explaining how current CG can generate and display realistic-looking objects. The mathematics is non-rigorous, with the necessary mathematical background introduced in the Appendixes. Features: includes numerous figures, examples and solved exercises; discusses the key 2D and 3D transformations, and the main types of projections; presents an extensive selection of methods, algorithms, and techniques; examines advanced techniques in CG, including the nature and properties of light and color, graphics standards and file formats, and fractals; explores the principles of image compression; describes the important input/output graphics devices.