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AI for Computer Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

AK Peter, 1999

Simply put, AI for Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach shows how video game characters can be taught to "think" for themselves. This groundbreaking title points the way for the future of intelligent gaming. While this book features formal mathematical proofs of its arguments, it also provides a worthwhile overview...

Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping

AK Peter, 2001

The creation of realistic three-dimensional images is central to computer graphics. Photon mapping, an extension of ray tracing, makes it possible to efficiently simulate global illumination in complex scenes. Photon mapping can simulate caustics (focused light, such as shimmering waves at the bottom of a swimming pool), diffuse inter-reflections...

Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods

AK Peter, 2003

Computer algebra is the field of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the development, implementation, and application of algorithms that manipulate and analyze mathematical expressions. This book and the companion text, Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods, are an introduction to the subject that...

Practical Parallel Rendering

CRC Press, 2002

Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques. Practical parallel rendering provides one of the most practical solutions. This book addresses the basic issues of rendering within a parallel or distributed computing environment, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of...

The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes

AK Peter, 2006

Join the Cryptokids as they apply basic mathematics to make and break secret codes. This book has many hands-on activities that have been tested in both classrooms and informal settings. Classic coding methods are discussed, such as Caesar, substitution, VigenÃ¨re, and multiplicative ciphers as well as the modern RSA. Math topics covered...

Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds

AK Peter, 2005

Like virtual reality, augmented reality is becoming an emerging platform in new application areas for museums, edutainment, home entertainment, research, industry, and the art communities using novel approaches which have taken augmented reality beyond traditional eye-worn or hand-held displays.

In this book, the authors discuss spatial...

Geometric Data Structures for Computer Graphics

AK Peter, 2006

Data structures and tools from computational geometry help to solve problems in computer graphics; these methods have been widely adopted by the computer graphics community yielding elegant and efficient algorithms.

This book focuses on algorithms and data structures that have proven to be versatile, efficient, fundamental, and easy...

Graphics Tools---The jgt Editors' Choice

CRC Press, 2005

Computer Graphics professionals can now find in one volume a collection of 32 "gems" chosen by the editors of the journal of graphics tools, one of the leading publications in the field. These selected papers provide practical ideas and techniques that solve real problems in the areas of - Math & Programming Techniques...

Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss

AK Peter, 2006

The author narrates the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the 18th century mathematician, from his prodigious childhood to his extraordinary achievements that earned him the title "Prince of Mathematics". Along the way, the author introduces her readers to a different culture, the era of small states in Germany where advancement on merits,...

Real-Time Volume Graphics

AK Peter, 2006

IN TRADITIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS, 3D objects are created using highlevel surface representations such as polygonal meshes, NURBS (nonuniform rational B-spline) patches, or subdivision surfaces. Using this modeling paradigm, visual properties of surfaces, such as color, roughness, and reflectance, are described by means of a shading...

Ray Tracing from the Ground Up

AK Peter, 2007

Computer graphics involves simulating the distribution of light in a 3D environment. There are only a few fundamentally different algorithms that have survived the test of time. They can be loosely classified into projective algorithms and image-space algorithms. The former class projects each geo metric primitive onto the...

Graphics and Visualization: Principles & Algorithms

AK Peter, 2007

Graphics & Visualization: Principles and Algorithms is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students taking computer graphics and visualization courses. Students in computer-aided design courses with emphasis on visualization will also benefit from this text, since mathematical modeling techniques with parametric curves and...

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