The Waite Group 3D Modeling Lab


Book Description

This low-cost package includes all the tools needed to create eye-popping three-dimensional graphics, type, and animation--so readers can make flying logos, architectural renderings, photorealistic "virtual" worlds, or any imaginable 3D image. The enclosed disks contain the powerful animation software program, 3D Workshop, along with dozens of 3D graphics.




Ray Tracing Creations


Book Description

This book/disk package teaches anyone with an IBM PC or compatible how to create 3-D photorealistic images using the powerful, updated ray tracing program POV Ray 2.0 (included). This new edition contains detailed explanations of all the improvements and additions to version 2.0 of POV-Ray, plus an extended reference section.







3D Madness!


Book Description

3D Madness! takes advantage of the growing interest in this area of computer graphics. 3D Madness! includes lots of tips, tricks, and traps as well as a Top 100 Graphics Techniques featured in the text and referenced in a jump table on the inside front cover. The CD-ROM is filled with 3D software. The disk contains a subset of the material on the CD-ROM.




Web Publisher's Construction Kit with VRML/Live3D


Book Description

Thanks to Virtual Reality Modeling Language, users can now do more than jump to web pages--they can jump inside them. This hands-on tutorial gives users detailed guidance on how to program with VRML and how to create 3-D worlds with 3-D software and convert them to VRML. The CD-ROM contains software, objects, textures, WebFX VRML browser, conversion software, and more.




Business Week


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The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook


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Extensively updated and expanded to reach a wide audience hungry for information in the far-reaching field of multimedia, this new edition includes more than 20 chapters on Netscape Communications, multimedia on the Internet, the WWW, HTML and Java.




Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation with Swarm


Book Description

Swarm-based multi-agent simulation leads to better modeling of tasks in biology, engineering, economics, art, and many other areas. It also facilitates an understanding of complicated phenomena that cannot be solved analytically. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation with Swarm provides the methodology for a multi-agent-based modeling approach that i




Black Art of Visual Basic Game Programming


Book Description

The first part of this book covers playing-field design, creating and moving objects using the Windows BitBlt API, detecting collisions, and adding sound, with example code given with each topic. Part 2 covers in-depth everything that game developers should know to create addicting action games. Part 3 contains several game projects.




Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools


Book Description

"This book presents research on the most recent technological developments in all fields of knowledge or disciplines of computer games development, including planning, design, development, marketing, business management, users and behavior"--Provided by publisher.