U.S. Navy Illustrator Draftsman 3 & 2 Volume 1 Equipment, Volume Standard Drafting Practices, Volume 3 Executionable Practices And Volume 4 Presentations Graphics
U.S. Navy Illustrator Draftsman 3 & 2 Volume 1 Equipment, Volume Standard Drafting Practices, Volume 3 Executionable Practices And Volume 4 Presentations Graphics

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Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones

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Total Pages: 1722

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Equipment. This is an overview of general shop administration, available equipment, required operator adjustments, and equipment maintenance. Knowing the capabilities and limitations of the equipment before creating artwork is essential. Standard Drafting Practices And Theory. Industry standards for composition, geometric construction, general drafting practices, technical drawings, perspective projections, and parallel projections are foundational material on which all executionable practices rely. Executionable Practices. These chapters cover the theory of color, photography, computer-generated art, figure drawing, cartooning, animation, mediums, lettering, and airbrush. These are the skills a successful DM must master. Presentations Graphics. Copy preparation, audiovisual presentations, television graphics, and displays and exhibits are end products and will influence the how and why DMs do business.

The History of Visual Magic in Computers
The History of Visual Magic in Computers

Author: Jon Peddie

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1447149327

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If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuits behaved liked people and wondered, “How do they do that?”, then you’ve experienced the magic of 3D worlds generated by a computer. 3D in computers began as a way to represent automotive designs and illustrate the construction of molecules. 3D graphics use evolved to visualizations of simulated data and artistic representations of imaginary worlds. In order to overcome the processing limitations of the computer, graphics had to exploit the characteristics of the eye and brain, and develop visual tricks to simulate realism. The goal is to create graphics images that will overcome the visual cues that cause disbelief and tell the viewer this is not real. Thousands of people over thousands of years have developed the building blocks and made the discoveries in mathematics and science to make such 3D magic possible, and The History of Visual Magic in Computers is dedicated to all of them and tells a little of their story. It traces the earliest understanding of 3D and then foundational mathematics to explain and construct 3D; from mechanical computers up to today’s tablets. Several of the amazing computer graphics algorithms and tricks came of periods where eruptions of new ideas and techniques seem to occur all at once. Applications emerged as the fundamentals of how to draw lines and create realistic images were better understood, leading to hardware 3D controllers that drive the display all the way to stereovision and virtual reality.

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Author: André Heck

Publisher: Springer Science & Business

Published: 2004-10-19

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9789812384324

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This book is the fifth volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). These OSA Books are intended to cover a large range of fields and themes. In practice, one could say that all aspects of astronomy-related life and environment are considered in the spirit of sharing specific expertise and lessons learned. This book offers a unique collection of chapters dealing with socio-dynamical aspects of the astronomy (and related space sciences) community: characteristics of organizations, strategies for development, operational techniques, observing practicalities, educational policies, public outreach, publication studies, research communication, evaluation procedures, research indicators, national specificities, contemporary history, and so on. The experts contributing to this book have done their best to write in a way understandable to readers not necessarily hyperspecialized in astronomy while providing specific detailed information and sometimes enlightening ‘lessons learned’ sections. The book concludes with an updated bibliography of publications related to socio-astronomy and to the interactions of the astronomy community with the society at large. This book will be most usefully read by researchers, teachers, editors, publishers, librarians, sociologists of science, research planners and strategists, project managers, public-relations officers, plus those in charge of astronomy-related organizations, as well as by students aiming at a career in astronomy or related space science. The book includes a CD-ROM containing the visionary and fascinating work of L. Pešek as a space artist. "More than anything else, Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy is about change, recording where we've been and how we have evolved, and extrapolating to where we will be in the coming decades." Caty Pilachowski, outgoing President of the AAS