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The Shadow Matrix

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101165685
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Matrix written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited Laran gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet!

Shadow Matrix

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322697628
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Matrix written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exile's Song

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101165723
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Exile's Song written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by fleeting, nightmarish memories of her childhood on Darkover, Margaret Alton flees her home with her uncommunicative, brooding father to take a job as assistant to musicologist Ivor Davidson, a career that takes her back to Darkover and a terrifying confrontation with the past.

Real-Time Shadows

Author : Elmar Eisemann
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1568814380
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Real-Time Shadows written by Elmar Eisemann and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there have been notable improvements in visual quality and speed, making high-quality realistic real-time shadows a reachable goal. Real-Time Shadows is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of real-time shadow techniques. It covers a large variety of different effects, including hard, soft, volumetric, and semi-transparent shadows. The book explains the basics as well as many advanced aspects related to the domain of shadow computation. It presents interactive solutions and practical details on shadow computation. The authors compare various algorithms for creating real-time shadows and illustrate how they are used in different situations. They explore the limitations and failure cases, advantages and disadvantages, and suitability of the algorithms in several applications. Source code, videos, tutorials, and more are available on the book’s website www.realtimeshadows.com.

Representation Theory

Author : Amritanshu Prasad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316222705
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Representation Theory written by Amritanshu Prasad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the representation theory of symmetric groups, the theory of symmetric functions and the polynomial representation theory of general linear groups. The first chapter provides a detailed account of necessary representation-theoretic background. An important highlight of this book is an innovative treatment of the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence and its dual by extending Viennot's geometric ideas. Another unique feature is an exposition of the relationship between these correspondences, the representation theory of symmetric groups and alternating groups and the theory of symmetric functions. Schur algebras are introduced very naturally as algebras of distributions on general linear groups. The treatment of Schur–Weyl duality reveals the directness and simplicity of Schur's original treatment of the subject. In addition, each exercise is assigned a difficulty level to test readers' learning. Solutions and hints to most of the exercises are provided at the end.

Traitor's Sun

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101157585
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Traitor's Sun written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traitor's Sun continues the epic saga of Darkover, the award-winning series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her most brilliant and popular creation, the Darkover books take readers to a planet torn by rebellion--and struggling for freedom...

Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach

Author : Frank Luna
Publisher : Wordware Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1449633757
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach written by Frank Luna and published by Wordware Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c: A Shader Approach presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. The book is divided into three parts that explain basic mathematical and 3D concepts, show how to describe 3D worlds and implement fundamental 3D rendering techniques, and demonstrate the application of Direct3D to create a variety of special effects. With this book understand basic mathematical tools used in video game creation such as vectors, matrices, and transformations; discover how to describe and draw interactive 3D scenes using Direct3D and the D3DX library; learn how to implement lighting, texture mapping, alpha blending, and stenciling using shaders and the high-level shading language (HLSL); explore a variety of techniques for creating special effects, including vertex blending, character animation, terrain rendering, multi-texturing, particle systems, reflections, shadows, and normal mapping;f ind out how to work with meshes, load and render .X files, program terrain/camera collision detection, and implement 3D object picking; review key ideas, gain programming experience, and explore new topics with the end-of-chapter exercises.

Programming Languages and Systems

Author : Helmut Seidl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642288685
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Programming Languages and Systems written by Helmut Seidl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2012, held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012, in March/April 2012. The 28 full papers, presented together with one full length invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. Papers were invited on all aspects of programming language research, including: programming paradigms and styles, methods and tools to write and specify programs and languages, methods and tools for reasoning about programs, methods and tools for implementation, and concurrency and distribution.

The Imagination Matrix

Author : Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D.
Publisher : Sounds True
ISBN 13 : 1649630034
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Imagination Matrix written by Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading depth psychologist offers a practical approach for vastly expanding your creative resources—and discovering for yourself that even the challenges of our time can be overcome by the power of human imagination. If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that place is here, that time is now. For anyone looking for a new way forward for yourself, your community, and our struggling planet, Professor Stephen Aizenstat offers a powerful message of hope. The trailblazers are people like you—the seekers, creatives, dreamers, doers—who are willing and ready to tap into a collective purpose so vital, so vibrant, so resonant in the world of today. In The Imagination Matrix, Aizenstat shares a step-by-step process to help you gain access to the “source code of imagination”—energizing your capacity to innovate new outcomes, evolve real-world solutions, and nurture your well-being. Here you’ll explore: • Opening the Curious Mind—a new method to engage imagination and wonder • Answering the call of your Innate Genius • Growing your capacities of Imaginal Intelligence • Maintaining your humanity in an increasingly technological world • Claiming your creativity and purpose to meet the pull of the future The Imagination Matrix offers a practical and uniquely personal path for becoming more purposeful, resourceful, and resilient—while developing a profound connection to the creative force that animates and flows through us all.

Intelligent Big Multimedia Databases

Author : Andreas Wichert
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814696668
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Big Multimedia Databases written by Andreas Wichert and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia databases address a growing number of commercially important applications such as media on demand, surveillance systems and medical systems. The book presents essential and relevant techniques and algorithms to develop and implement large multimedia database systems. The traditional relational database model is based on a relational algebra that is an offshoot of first-order logic and of the algebra of sets. The simple relational model is not powerful enough to address multimedia data. Because of this, multimedia databases are categorized into many major areas. Each of these areas are now so extensive that a major understanding of the mathematical core concepts requires the study of different fields such as information retrieval, digital image processing, feature extraction, fractals, machine learning, neuronal networks and high-dimensional indexing. This book unifies the essential concepts and recent algorithms into a single comprehensive volume. Contents:IntroductionMultimedia DatabasesTransform FunctionsCompressionFeature ExtractionLow Dimensional IndexingApproximative IndexingHigh Dimensional IndexingDealing with Text DatabasesStatistical Supervised Machine LearningMultimodal FusionSoftware ArchitectureMultimedia Databases in Medicine Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers and graduate students in databases, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and neural networks. Keywords:Big Data;Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval;Wavelets;Compression;Feature Extractopm;High-Dimensional Indexing;Information Retrieval;Machine Learning

Zandru's Forge

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101141905
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Zandru's Forge written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover.

Combinatorics and Random Matrix Theory

Author : Jinho Baik
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821848410
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Combinatorics and Random Matrix Theory written by Jinho Baik and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last fifteen years a variety of problems in combinatorics have been solved in terms of random matrix theory. More precisely, the situation is as follows: the problems at hand are probabilistic in nature and, in an appropriate scaling limit, it turns out that certain key quantities associated with these problems behave statistically like the eigenvalues of a (large) random matrix. Said differently, random matrix theory provides a “stochastic special function theory” for a broad and growing class of problems in combinatorics. The goal of this book is to analyze in detail two key examples of this phenomenon, viz., Ulam's problem for increasing subsequences of random permutations and domino tilings of the Aztec diamond. Other examples are also described along the way, but in less detail. Techniques from many different areas in mathematics are needed to analyze these problems. These areas include combinatorics, probability theory, functional analysis, complex analysis, and the theory of integrable systems. The book is self-contained, and along the way we develop enough of the theory we need from each area that a general reader with, say, two or three years experience in graduate school can learn the subject directly from the text.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia

Author : Shunsuke Managi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317597877
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia written by Shunsuke Managi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems of climate change, biodiversity and air pollution are clearly growing globally, but more particularly in Asia because of its economic importance and richness in nature. The increasing interest in environmental and resource economics applied in regions of Asia will make this book an outstanding resource to the existing literature, particularly in the fields of environmental and resource economics and the integration of applied content in traditional and agricultural development. At present there is no single handbook or text on the state of current knowledge in environmental economics in Asia or one which offers a comprehensive guide to students and academics on the subjects of environmental economics research. This book will help to fill the gap in the existing literature.

The Matrix

Author : Jonathan Aycliffe
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472112679
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Matrix written by Jonathan Aycliffe and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seek and you shall find... After the death of his beloved wife, Andrew Macleod finds solace in his research in Edinburgh.His interest in the ancient practices of magic is purely academic until the soothingly hypnotic rituals and mysterious ceremonies begin to lure him into a consuming quest for knowledge.When his passion escalates into an obsession for power and mastery, Andrew unwittingly becomes the apprentice of Duncan MyIne, who has a strange hold over him. Though Andrew fears MyIne's menacing tutelage, he allows himself to be drawn deeper into an inner circle of evil.When he finally discovers the demented motivation behind MyIne's interest in him, it is too late for redemption, poised as he is on the edge of the horrific abyss between life and death...

Computer Animation

Author : Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431684336
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Computer Animation written by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computer Vision and Image Processing

Author : Manas Kamal Bhuyan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351248383
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Computer Vision and Image Processing written by Manas Kamal Bhuyan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book familiarizes readers with fundamental concepts and issues related to computer vision and major approaches that address them. The focus of the book is on image acquisition and image formation models, radiometric models of image formation, image formation in the camera, image processing concepts, concept of feature extraction and feature selection for pattern classification/recognition, and advanced concepts like object classification, object tracking, image-based rendering, and image registration. Intended to be a companion to a typical teaching course on computer vision, the book takes a problem-solving approach.

Image Synthesis

Author : Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431680608
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Image Synthesis written by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice is the first book completely dedicated to the numerous techniques of image synthesis. Both theoretical and practical aspects are treated in detail. Numerous impressive computer-generated images are used to explain the most advanced techniques in image synthesis. The book contains a detailed description of the most fundamental algorithms; other less important algorithms are summarized or simply listed. This volume is also a unique handbook of mathematical formulae for image synthesis. The four first chapters of the book survey the basic techniques of computer graphics which play an important role in the design of an image: geometric models, image and viewing transformations, curves and surfaces and solid modeling techniques. In the next chapters, each major topic in image synthesis is presented. The first important problem is the detection and processing of visible surfaces, then two chapters are dedicated to the central problem of light and illumination. As aliasing is a major problem in image rendering, the fundamental antialiasing and motion blur techniques are explained. The most common shadow algorithms are then presented as well as techniques for producing soft shadows and penumbrae. In the last few years, image rendering has been strongly influenced by ray tracing techniques. For this reason, two chapters are dedicated to this important approach. Then a chapter is completely dedicated to fractals from the formal Mandelbrot theory to the recursive subdivision approaches. Natural phenomena present a particularly difficult challenge in image synthesis. For this reason, a large portion of the book is devoted to latest methods to simulate these phenomena: particle systems, scalar fields, volume density scattering models. Various techniques are also described for representing terrains, mountains, water, waves, sky, clouds, fog, fire, trees, and grass. Several techniques for combining images are also explained: adaptive rendering, montage and composite methods. The last chapter presents in detail the MIRALab image synthesis software.