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Effective Web Animation : Advanced Techniques for the Web
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Provides an overview of computer animation techniques and detailed instructions for creating complex, yet efficient, animation using GIF, JavaScript, and Macromedia Flash. The book focuses on methods for minimizing file size as well as techniques for reducing time spent on the tedious process of creating individual frames. Full-color screen shots illustrate techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM features sample code, demos, and working Photoshop animations which can be plugged into existing Web.
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(Rating: 9.6 Votes: 2)
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography
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The subjects of photography and computers have tremendous breadth and depth. Understanding either one can be a challenge, especially if you're a beginner. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography does an excellent job of breaking the ice as it introduces readers to photography, computers, and digital cameras.
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(Rating: 9.1 Votes: 3)
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Real-Time Rendering
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Presents algorithms for use in three-dimensional computer-aided design, simulation, virtual reality worlds, and games. Focusing on the graphics pipeline, the book has chapters on transforms, optimization, visual appearance, polygon manipulation, collision detection, and special effects. Also included are texture algorithms, intersection methods, and speed-up techniques. The book concludes with a section on hardware, including case studies of various graphics systems.
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(Rating: 8.9 Votes: 3)
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Digital Character Animation 2 : Essential Techniques
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Grounded in the basics of traditional cell animation, Digital Character Animation 2, Volume I: Essential Techniques provides the necessary information to create convincing computer-generated characters in 3D. This step-by-step, full color guide applies conventional character animation techniques such as walk cycles and lip sync to computer animation, along with tips for giving your characters the illusion of life. Volume I is the first of two volumes and is geared to more entry level animators,... read more
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(Rating: 8.7 Votes: 6)
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Envisioning Information
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A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images
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(Rating: 8.7 Votes: 2)
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Interactivity by Design : Creating & Communicating With New Media
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The book explores how to use Interactivity, one of the hottest topics in the computer design industry. It highlights professional quality, 4-color groundbreaking design techniques, and features Interactivity as a design application in multimedia, CD-ROM, On-line and other applications.
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(Rating: 8.7 Votes: 4)
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
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Cascading Style Sheets can put a great deal of control and flexibility into the hands of a Web designer--in theory. In reality, however, varying browser support for CSS1 and lack of CSS2 implementation makes CSS a very tricky topic. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive text that shows how to take advantage of the benefits of CSS while keeping compatibility issues in mind.
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(Rating: 8.2 Votes: 5)
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Animating Facial Features and Expressions
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The challenges of modeling and animating realistic faces and emotions with computer software are confronted and easily worked through in Animating Facial Features & Expressions. If you have any interest in computer-based character animation, this book will be a valuable addition to your reference shelf. The book starts with an exploration of the anatomy of the head, including underlying facial muscles and proportions; continues with examples of displaying different emotions; and ends with a series of appendices that list different expressions and emotions for human faces, cartoon faces, and nonhuman (monster) faces.
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(Rating: 8 Votes: 2)
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Designing Web Graphics.3
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This update to Lynda Weinman's highly successful Designing Web Graphics series addresses the new technologies related to Web site design, such as dynamic HTML (DHTML), the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, and standardized red-green-blue (sRGB). It also discusses the new software programs that help you create and optimize Web graphics, such as Adobe ImageReady and Macromedia Fireworks. Weinman also deals with the old favorites, such as Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, and continues to focus on creating good-looking, compact graphics, as opposed to writing HTML, say, or setting up a server.
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(Rating: 7.8 Votes: 3)
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Creating Killer Web Sites, Second Edition
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Explains the conception, design, and construction of third-generation Web sites, encouraging resistance to the urge to build sites with the latest technical gizmos. Part I covers basics of theory, structure, implementation, and tools, and Part II details case studies of four sites, showcasing real-life design solutions from the Web. Part III covers style sheets and strategies for use during the coming Web browser transitions. Includes color illustrations on every page. This revised edition of 1996's instant online classic contains some 100 new pages and 150 new illustrations, with a new chapter on style sheets.
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(Rating: 7.3 Votes: 3)
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