Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artists Handbook

Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artists Handbook
Publisher: Focal Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0240806697

  Pages: 480 | PDF | 21,63 MB

Painter IX Creativity is a comprehensive creative guide to Corel's Painter IX Software. It explains the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations, manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies.

The book gives visual artists-digital designers, multimedia artists, photographers, illustrators, animators, and graphic artists-the explanations they need in order to maximize the sophisticated, creative Painter tool. The book teaches the artist how to transfer traditional art skills and techniques to the computer. It teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the web. IT explains how photographers can transform and collage their images with natural-media tools. For Adobe Photoshop users, this book explains the expanded creative potential Painter lends to their work.

The author takes a knowledgeable and straightforward approach to this step-by-step project-based book, explaining how each tool is used, every effect achieved, and every topic thoroughly described. The book allows readers to build upon their knowledge so that beginners have the chance to become advanced users, and advanced users have an opportunity to hone their skills and adopt new techniques.

*Learn how to use the phenomenal image creation tool, Corel Painter IX, with clear, organized, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from an internationally recognized computer artist and Painter master!
*CD-ROM includes unique custom brushes and art materials not supplied with Corel Painter IX, plus tutorial images for all projects
*A new Instructor Manual is available from the publisher
*The only Painter workbook that addresses both creativity and technical proficiency
*Teaches creative techniques that can be adapted by all visual artists as well as photographers, designers, and illustrators.


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The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference

The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference
Pete Becker
Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN 0321412990 | 1st Edition (July 2006)
CHM | 1 Mb | 624 Pages

The current C++ standard library extends the core C++ language with common classes and  functions. In recent years, to address limitations in that library, a number of components  have been developed to extend the language even further. Compiled in a comprehensive  technical report (TR1), the bulk of these extensions have been approved for the next  revision of the C++ standard.

 In this book, Pete Becker describes in detail each component in the TR1 library,  explaining new facilities for utilities, containers, call wrappers, type traits, numerics,  regular expressions, and C compatibility. He draws on his own experience implementing these  components to illustrate their value, clarifying the specifications when necessary and  providing complete, tested code examples.

 Most chapters include exercises of various degrees of difficulty to help programmers get  hands-on practice with the new components. Answers to the exercises, along with all code  examples, are available on the Web. Appendixes comprise a summary of headers included in or  extended by the TR1 library, as well as guidelines on how to use the components safely in  multithreaded applications.

 The C++ Standard Library Extensions is for any programmer who wants to get a jump on the  revised standard. It also makes the perfect companion to The C++ Standard Library, by  Nicolai Josuttis, both books being tutorials and references essential for using C++ more  effectively.

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C++ Database Development

C++ Database Development
2nd Edition - Al Stevens
Mis Press | 1994 | ISBN: 1558283579
350 pages | PDF | 18,2 MB

 Learn the fundamentals of creating and using object oriented databases with C++ Database  Development, 2nd Edition. This comprehensive guide covers the history and principles of  database management, advanced techniques for designing and writing C++ persistent object  database programs, and using PARODY the Persistent, Almost-Relational Object Database  Manager. C++ Database Development, 2nd Edition also includes a bonus diskette with source  code for PARODY and all the examples from the book.

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Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

Advances and Innovations in Systems, 

Computing Sciences and Software Engineering
Khaled Elleithy,
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 140206263X | edition 2007
PDF | 578 pages | 11.3 mb

Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computing Sciences, Software Engineering and Systems.
 

Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 2006) which was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2006).
 

All aspects of the conference were managed on-line; not only the reviewing, submissions and registration processes; but also the actual conference. Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only needed an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event allowed academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office. Suffice to say that CISSE received submissions from more than 70 countries, for whose researchers, this opportunity presented a much more affordable, dynamic and well-planned event to attend and submit their work to, versus a classic, on-the-ground conference.
 

The CISSE conference audio room provided superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted CISSE the opportunity to allow all participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session.


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Studying for Science

Studying for Science

Publisher: Spon Press | ISBN: 0419148108
PDF | 194 pages | 1 mb

Looking back to when I started teaching, some 20 years ago, I am sure I was too critical of students’ work. They were penalized not only for their lack of scientific knowledge and understanding, but also for failure in the way they approached their work and their inability to retrieve and use information. With hindsight, I realize that many of their supposed faults were of my own making. As a science teacher it was my job not only to extend and broaden subject knowledge, but also to instruct in the ways of studying science and demonstrate the accessibility of scientific information. I took for granted that they had already developed the skills of being a student; failing to appreciate that for many, unless told otherwise, academic work equated with a parrot-like ability to recall fact and detail.
 

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Reverse Engineering: An Industrial Perspective

Reverse Engineering: An Industrial Perspective
Vinesh Raja, Kiran J. Fernandes,
Springer; 1 edition (December 6, 2007) | ISBN: 184628855X
242 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of an object or component through analysis of its structure and function. Such analysis can then be used to redesign the object very quickly using computer-aided design in concert with rapid-manufacturing processes to produce small numbers of components adapted to the needs of a particular customer. This way of working has huge benefits of speed and flexibility over traditional mass-production-based design and manufacturing processes.

This edited collection of essays from world-leading academic and industrial authors yields insight into all aspects of reverse engineering:
The methods of reverse engineering analysis are covered, with special emphasis on the investigation of surface and internal structures.
Frequently-used hardware and software are assessed and advice given on the most suitable choice of system.
Rapid prototyping is introduced and its relationship with successful reverse engineering is discussed.
Importantly, legal matters surrounding reverse engineering are addressed as are other barriers to the adoption of these techniques.
Applications of reverse engineering in three significant areas: automotive, aerospace, and medical engineering are reported in depth.

Reverse Engineering is a "must have" title for anyone working with advanced modern manufacturing technologies, either with a view to researching and improving them further or to making their company leaner and more agile in a competitive manufacturing marketplace

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Cell Therapy, Stem Cells and Brain Repair

Cell Therapy, Stem Cells and Brain Repair
Publisher: Humana Press | ISBN: 1588295028 | edition 2006
PDF | 408 pages | 4 mb

Cell Therapy, Stem Cells, and Brain Repair reviews the most compelling treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, disorders, and injuries, including Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. Covering the history of cell therapy and neural transplantation, it also focuses on stem cells, including embryonic, bone marrow, and umbilical cord blood, as well as other investigative sources. This compilation explicates previous cornerstones and milestones of neurological cellular therapy, which have provided a foundation for modern stem cell research.

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