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Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual WorldsLike 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... | | Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon MappingThe 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... | | AI for Computer Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling ApproachSimply 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... |
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Modern Mathematics in the Light of the Fields MedalExamines the evolution of certain areas of modern mathematics by recounting the past winners of the international Fields Medal, the - Nobel Prize - of mathematics. Paper. DLC: Mathematics - History 20th century.
This little book is extraordinary in at least three ways. First, it contains in only 150 pages a synopsis of the whole... | | Erdos on Graphs : His Legacy of Unsolved ProblemsA tribute to Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician once described as the prince of problem solvers & the absolute monarch of problem posers, examines within the context of his personality & lifestyle the legacy of open problems he left to the world of mathematics after his death in 1996. DLC: Graph theory.
There is no... | | The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret CodesJoin 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, Vigenère, and multiplicative ciphers as well as the modern RSA. Math topics covered... |
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Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich GaussThe 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,... | | | | |
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