Diagrams, organizational charts, flowcharts, even floor plans — they’re all types of business graphics. Only one tool does ’em all: SmartDraw. SmartDraw For Dummies shows you how this business graphics software helps you make boring presentations exciting and how to create graphics that can help you sell, manage, inform, motivate, and more.You’ll learn how to set up the program, navigate its somewhat unique interface, and work with SmartDraw’s thousands of templates. You d...

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A complete guide to creating usable, realistic game characters with two powerful toolsCreating viable game characters requires a combination of skills. This book teaches game creators how to create usable, realistic game assets using the power of an open-source 3D application and a free game engine. It presents a step-by-step approach to modeling, texturing, and animating a character using the popular Blender software, with emphasis on low polygon modeling and an e...

This book provides you with step-by-step exercises covering the various systems of CryENGINE and comprehensively explains their workings in a way that can be easily understood by readers of any skill level to help you develop your very own CryENGINE games.This book is intended for developers looking to harness the power of CryENGINE, providing a good grounding in how to use the engine to its full potential. The book assumes basic knowledge of the engine and its editor in non-programming ar...

Bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) is back with an amazing new collection of Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks, including how to create the same exact effects you see every day in magazines, on TV, at the movies, and on the Web. It's more of those eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects that made Scott's previous version an award-winning worldwide smash hit!But this isn't just an update to his previous book--these are 100% ALL NEW EF...

Do you find yourself wondering what the fuss is about a delta 3D printer? Perhaps you’ve decided to buy one but all of your 3D printing friends are busily perfecting their Cartesian printers. Maybe you find yourself stymied by the fact that your delta printer has very different needs for setup, configuration, calibration, and maintenance than Cartesian printers.3D Printing with Delta Printers contains detailed descriptions of the innovative delta design including unique ha...

Launched just a few months back, Windows 8 caused a commotion in the IT industry. It is said to be the most dynamic operating system launched by Microsoft. Windows 8 is different and far more exciting than its predecessors. It has innumerous features and utilities that are not only unique but also very user friendly.The fact that you are reading this book implies that you probably have already experienced Windows 8 and are looking for ways to explore more of it.Well you hav...

This book provides a view of low-rank and sparse computing, especially approximation, recovery, representation, scaling, coding, embedding and learning among unconstrained visual data. The book includes chapters covering multiple emerging topics in this new field. It links multiple popular research fields in Human-Centered Computing, Social Media, Image Classification, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Big Data, and Human-Computer Interaction. Contains an overview of the low-rank and s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2016, held in Hannover, Germany, in September 2016.The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing, learning, optimization, segmentation, applications, image analysis, motion and tracking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Images, Patch-MI 2016, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2016, in Athens, Greece, in October 2016.The 17 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.The main aim of the Patch-MI 2016 workshop is to promote methodological advances within the medical imaging field, with various applications in ima...

With the continued application of gaming for training and education, which has seen exponential growth over the past two decades, this book offers an insightful introduction to the current developments and applications of game technologies within educational settings, with cutting-edge academic research and industry insights, providing a greater understanding into current and future developments and advances within this field.Following on from the success of the first volume in 201...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Chinese Conference, IVS 2016, held in Beijing, China, in October 2016.The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on low-level preprocessing, surveillance systems; tracking, robotics; identification, detection, recognition; behavior, activities, crowd analysis.