| Programmable GPUs provide the processing horsepower necessary to render realistic graphics in real time, but this has put a new burden on graphics programmers. They now need to have an in-depth understanding of lights and surface propertiex before they can use the capablities of the GPU.
About the Author
Kelli Dempski is the author of Rea- Time Rendering Tricks and Techniques in DirectX (Premier Press) and Focus on Curves and Surfaces (Premier Press). A researcher at Accenture’s Technology Labs for nine years, his work involves developing ideas and prototypes for multimedia, virtual reality, augmented reality, and interactive TV, including work in the areas of photorealistic rendering and interactive techniques.
Emmanuel Viale is an accomplished programmer/CG artist known for writing his own advanced raytracing program. |
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 Sick Building Syndrome: in Public Buildings and Workplaces
This volume throws light on the Sick Building Syndrome in Libraries and other public buildings, and the extent to which it is influenced by the internal environment of libraries. One of the signs of this disease is that the person suffers from a set of symptoms closely related to his/her presence in the building, without the identification of... | | Clinical Psychopharmacology: An Update
This book provides practical information on how to use various psychotropic drugs in clinical practice, focusing on their mechanisms of action on receptors and enzymes in the brain. Divided into 11 chapters, it covers all main drug classes, with a dedicated chapter each on special populations and upcoming drugs. All the drugs... | | Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
We live in a world that is rich in data, ever increasing in scale. This data comes from many di erent
sources in science (bioinformatics, astronomy, physics, environmental monitoring) and commerce (customer
databases, nancial transactions, engine monitoring, speech recognition, surveillance, search). Possessing
the knowledge as to... |
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