This book is an introduction to the solution to the problem of interoperability between different engineering software systems.

Written in a friendly, practical style this Cookbook deep-dives into a wide-array of techniques used to create realistic materials and textures.This book is perfect for you if you have used Blender before but are new to the impressive Cycles renderer. You should have some knowledge of the Blender interface, though this is not a strict requirement. If you want to create realistic, stunning materials and textures using Cycles, then this book is for you!

Every chapter starts with a 'mission briefing' section that describes what is to be achieved by the end of the chapter. This is followed with the decisions and steps required to accomplish the mission objective with challenges to take the project further. The scope for the book thus mimics the real-life requirements of a developer and gets you ready to successfully build your own project. If you are a web designer looking to expand your knowledge of 3D graphics concepts and broaden your ex...

Exam Board: CambridgeLevel: KS4Subject: Digital MediaFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Support your teaching of the new Cambridge Technicals 2016 suite with Cambridge Technical Level 3 Digital Media, developed in partnership between OCR and Hodder Education; this textbook covers each specialist pathway and ensures your ability to deliver a flexib...

Foundations of Mobile Media Studies gathers some of the most important texts in this emerging field, offering readers key approaches to understanding our moment and our media. The impact of mobile media is far reaching and this book discusses topics such as human intimacy, social space, political uprisings, labor, mobile phones in the developing world, gender, the mobile device’s impact on reading, mobile television, and mobile photography, among others. This carefully curated col...

Using the versatility and power of MATLAB to apply sophisticated effects to images and videos is easy for novice programmers in any language thanks to this fantastic guide. Also suitable for photographers and video-editors.Key FeaturesApply sophisticated techniques to images and videos in just a few stepsLearn and practice techniques for enhancing and restoring your photographsCreate artistic photographs using simple methodsBook D...

The year 1997 found the members of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) cooperative in an expansive mood. More than 1,000 library leaders attended the OCLC President’s Luncheon in San Francisco, where they celebrated OCLC’s 30th anniversary. There were more than 25,000 libraries participating in the cooperative, including nearly 3,000 libraries in 62 countries outside the U.S., and the WorldCat database contained more than 37 million bibliographic records.Over the next ten yea...

This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.Six particular works by artists of different ...

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scenarios where states have regarded information and its diffusion as productive of modernity and globalization. It is the central argument of this book that the contemporary nation-state, especially in the global South...

This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations. If you are an Oracle database administrator, Museum curator, IT manager, Developer, Photographer, Intelligence team member, Warehouse or Software Architect then this book is for you. It covers the basics and then moves to advanced concepts. This will challenge and increase your knowledge enabling all those who read it to gain a greater understanding of multimedia and how all un...

Over 50 hands-on recipes that will help you develop amazing real-time applications using GPIO, RS232, ADC, DAC, timers, audio codecs, graphics LCD, and a touch screenKey Features\[\*\] This book focuses on programming embedded systems using a practical approach\[\*\] Examples show how to use bitmapped graphics and manipulate digital audio to produce amazing games and other multimedia applications\[\*\] The recipes in this book are written using...

Pinterest is a dream? Is it a symbol? Is it an icon of our imagination or is it simply a social network? And how is it possible to combine Pinterest with the world of books, writers, publishing or even the world of literary blogs? With this brief and important text about Pinterst and its use, Angelo Ricci, author of highly successful ebooks as "Borges aveva un tumblr,"or "Viva Tumblr!" started "Social Media Landscapes". It is one of the most important project of Errant Editions. Short text...