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CRC Press EventDatabase Architecture for Computer Games
Book SynopsisEvent-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. An archetypal software production process, based on this architecture, is also introduced.This volume begins by describing the formal definition of software production processes in general, and the production process of computer games in particular. It introduces the two basic principles behind the software architecture that addresses the communication and productivity problems of a degenerative production process. It goes on to describe the archetypal software production process, and outlines the role that the Game Designers, Game Programmers, Game Artists, Sound Designers and Game Testers play in that process.This book will be of great interest to professional game developers involved in programming roles, such as Tools Programmers, UI Programmers, Gameplay
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CRC Press EventDatabase Architecture for Computer Games
Book SynopsisEvent-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. In this volume, an example of a practical production process based on the software production process is explained, including examples of the game design, technical design, data design and tools design in that process.This volume includes a brief overview on how to optimize the results. This leads on to an exploration of how staff, especially Software Engineers, typically view optimization. It also explains how the vision of the Engineers relates to the vision of the leadership of a project or company. It describes how this leadership can also affect the efficacy of a production process, including the Event-Database Production Process.This book will be of great interest to professional game developers involved in programming roles, such as Tools Programmers, U
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Taylor & Francis On the Aesthetics of Architecture
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Taylor & Francis UnCommon Precedents in Architectural Design
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Taylor & Francis Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisPerforming Womanhood in Eastern Europe explores a distinctive form of womanhood that emerged in post-World War II Eastern Europe, offering an alternative to Western typologies.This work interweaves theatre history with personal narratives while addressing contemporary issues that continue to resonate. In Eastern Europe's patriarchal landscape, the stage has become a vital space for authentic critical analysis and introspection, with women's previously silenced voices now taking center stage. The book examines performances and dramatic works by creators from Romania, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova, and former Yugoslavia, revealing how they represent female experiences within Eastern Europe's complex geopolitical environment. It questions whether theatrical expression can bridge the feminist divide between East and West, and if performance spaces might serve as forums where marginalized narratives and multidirectional memories can be renegotiated. Ultimately, it explores how the personal can reclaim its political dimension, allowing womanhood in all its manifestations to be performed authentically, either shielded from or actively challenging the male gaze.This book will particularly appeal to scholars of Eastern European studies, feminist theatre historians, and performance artists interested in gendered cultural expression across post-communist spaces.
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Taylor & Francis Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation
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Taylor & Francis Preparing for Rehearsal
Book SynopsisA resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the pre-rehearsal analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to prepare for a creative, imaginative and fruitful exploration of a dramatic text in the journey towards rehearsal.The language is unselfconsciously engaging and accessible, uncluttered by alienating academic vocabulary. It holds out a helping hand throughout the important and sometimes rather lonely time of preparation for rehearsal, a time of exploration usually spent without the reassuring guidance of a director or dramaturg. The volume takes the reader on a journey, chapter by chapter, from first reading of a script to arrival in the rehearsal room or film studio for the first readthrough or day of shooting. The book maps out six investigations for the actor or director, and most importantly, the order in which those explorations should be tackled. This book also forms the basis of any core text analysis module for students studying on professional acting, theatre arts, scriptwriting, media, and film or directing degrees at a university, college, or conservatoire level.A professional director, actor and writer, this guide is also a result of Chris Picklesâ many years of experience not only in running workshops for theatre professionals, but also teaching text analysis to actors and directors in training.
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CRC Press Green Tribology and Industry 4.0
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Golden Age of Data Visualization
Book SynopsisWe are living in the Golden Age of Data Visualization. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how we increasingly use data visualizations to make sense of the world. Business analysts fill their presentations with charts, journalists use infographics to engage their readers, we rely on the dials and gauges on our household appliances, and we use mapping apps on our smartphones to find our way.This book explains how and why this has happened. It details the evolution of information graphics, the kinds of graphics at the core of data visualizationmaps, diagrams, charts, scientific and medical imagesfrom prehistory to the present day. It explains how the cultural context, production and presentation technologies, and data availability have shaped the history of data visualization. It considers the perceptual and cognitive reasons why data visualization is so effective and explores the little-known world of tactile graphicsraised-line drawings used by people who are blind. The bo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing for the 21st Century
Book SynopsisAs we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design, expectations are higher, and increased participation is often essential. This book explores these issues through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity as part of the UK''s research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory cha
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing for the 21st Century
Book SynopsisAs we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design, expectations are higher, and increased participation is often essential. This book explores these issues through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity as part of the UK''s research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory cha
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Risk Opportunity Uncertainty and Other Random
Book SynopsisRisk, Opportunity, Uncertainty and Other Random Models (Volume V in the Working Guides to Estimating and Forecasting series) goes part way to debunking the myth that research and development cost are somewhat random, as under certain conditions they can be observed to follow a pattern of behaviour referred to as a Norden-Rayleigh Curve, which unfortunately has to be truncated to stop the myth from becoming a reality! However, there is a practical alternative in relation to a particular form of PERT-Beta Curve.However, the major emphasis of this volume is the use of Monte Carlo Simulation as a general technique for narrowing down potential outcomes of multiple interacting variables or cost drivers. Perhaps the most common of these in the evaluation of Risk, Opportunity and Uncertainty. The trouble is that many Monte Carlo Simulation tools are black boxes' and too few estimators and forecasters really appreciate what is happening inside the b
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CRC Press Extending and Customizing Unreal Engine Editor
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CRC Press Human Factors in Challenging Environments
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Taylor & Francis The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Book SynopsisThe Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules - âœbuilding blocksâ - that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps and an analog synthesizer.Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC Board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohmâs Law and Decibels spreadsheets.Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for inte
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Taylor & Francis Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Audio Programming 5
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Taylor & Francis Workbook for Explorations in Music Theory
Book SynopsisExplorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written theory and analysis. This book teaches harmony as a series of historical practices, each with different advantages and disadvantages. Classes are empowered to critically compare these practices and adopt those that they find most effective. Designed to support multiple learning modalities, and incorporating repertoire from a diverse array of composers, this book offers instructors and students a comprehensive and engaging foundation in music theory.Features of this book include: Modular lessons centered on inquiry-driven pedagogy, offering flexibility Lesson difficulty is marked to allow instructors to easily organize their course A wide variety of exercises and practice tasks incorporated throughout the chapters Improvisation Labs allow students to practice concepts through improvisation Historical Minutes introduce students to historical theorists and enable them to understand music theory as a living practice Composer Spotlights highlight the stories of composers whose work is featured in the chapter, bringing forward underrepresented composers Explore Online features provide additional exercises and coverage of advanced topics through an accompanying online resourceA flexible, modular organization allows the book to be used in a variety of course structures, accommodating a wide variety of schools. Enhancing improvisation and composition skills, introducing historical perspectives, incorporating diverse repertoire, and enabling students to better connect theory concepts with practical applications, this text provides a new and effective way to teach harmony.This accompanying Workbook offers exercises to accompany each chapter in the book. Divided into warmup and homework sections, the exercises in the Workbook provide additional practice with the skills addressed in the textbook through a range of approaches, including writing, composition, and identification.
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Taylor & Francis The Audio Expert
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Taylor & Francis The Adaptable Degree
Book SynopsisThis book utilized a mixed-methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction.With a population of over 1,000 participants, this study examined where graduates were working, how their careers had changed over time, which skills acquired with their theatre degree were being used in current employment, and whether they believed their course of study was worth the financial investment, given their current circumstances. Evidence from this study revealed that a theatre degree provided many of the skills the employment market is currently seeking and that theatre graduates were gainfully employed in multiple sectors of the economy.This important data-based, field-specific information will aid chairs, deans, provosts, politicians, students and parents in deicision-making at a time when arts and humanities departments across the country are under the threat of elimination
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CRC Press Raw Outrage
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Taylor & Francis Designing for Kids
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Taylor & Francis Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building
Book SynopsisThis timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. In the context of climate change and increasing energy costs, imperatives to replace or substantially modify older and historic buildings are rapidly accelerating. The idea that a new or replacement building will perform better overlooks the embodied carbon of that which it replaces. In effect, the pressures of one conservation agenda, that of energy efficiency, threaten to eclipse another, that of heritage. The embodied carbon of existing buildings must be addressed if calculations of operational energy use are to be properly balanced. In this book, an international and multi-disciplinary group of authors offer perspectives on the leverage and implementation of strategies to account for embodied carbon for the conservation of the historic environment. Examples are deliberately diverse and extend be
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Taylor & Francis Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News
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Taylor & Francis Gordon Cullens Townscape in USA
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Taylor & Francis Open Design in Practice
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CRC Press Is Quality Just a Word We Use
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Taylor & Francis The Physically Disabled Dancer and the
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while at the same time challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning-disabled performer.This is the first book ever written by a physically disabled dancer on the subject of physically disabled dancers. Inherent in this examination is the model of examining disability that is most closely associated with the disability arts movement which is the âaffirmative model of disabilityâ. This model is defined as an approach to disability in which the disabled person is neither an object of medical care nor a victim of social indifference but a self-respecting, autonomous individual in which their disability is a positive and affirming aspect of their self-identity. The book, based on interviews with physically disabled dancers, choreographers, academics and arts producers all in a UK cont
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Taylor & Francis The Louvre and Versailles
Book SynopsisIn tracing the evolution of the Louvre from fortress to palace and of Versailles from hunting domain to dynastic capital, Dr Tadgellâs detailed architectural analysis of many projects â external and internal, realised and unrealised â is set in the context of the development of the medieval monarchy towards absolutism, of the development of the medieval chÃteau towards precedents for the seat of absolutism, and of the effect of the French monarchyâs financial incontinence on the realisation of royal building ambitions.In particular, Tadgell challenges received opinion on the introduction of Hispano-Burgundian court etiquette to French palace design, relates the court front of Lescotâs Renaissance Louvre to the iconography of apotheosis, revises the current ordering of FranÃois Mansartâs designs for the Louvre and reassesses the subsequent contribution of Claude Perrault to the completion of the east front in respect for the opinion of 17th and 18th century commentators. After surveying the various phases of work for Louis XIV at Versailles, he traces the evolution of Ange-Jacques Gabrielâs grand projet for rebuilding the town side of the palace for Louis XV, noting the influence of Bernini on the definitive phase, and he masters the intricacies of the incessant changes to the royal apartments which inhibited rebuilding.Finally, the book looks at the influence of the great French palaces on those seeking to emulate their ambition, from Stockholm in the late-17th century to the deliriously opulent late-19th century palace of Ludwig II of Bavaria at Herrenchiemsee. A wealth of illustrative material and supporting documents bring this comprehensive and authoritative text to life.
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Taylor & Francis The Inherent Potential in Art Performance
Book SynopsisThis book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the âfemaleâ category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research directions to create diverse perspectives on the selected works. This book combines historical outlines based on art history, new methodologies in theatre studies and digressions into sociology. Philosophical readings will complement the resulting multiple perspective, in which figures of thought such as transimmanence, the theory of performativity and body-mind dualism are of specific interest. This research brings to the fore networks of sedimented and entangled histories, an attitude reminiscent of staying with the trouble. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students in dance, dance performance and art performance.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Audio Erotica
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Taylor & Francis Reading Modernity Modernism and Religion Today
Book SynopsisFeelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today's secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Emile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a concept which this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity. The book focuses on two representative figures, Benedictus de Spinoza and Vincent van Gogh, on whose work it offers some significant new perspectives. Spinoza drew up a blueprint for Modernity, which is to say, the cultural transformations that took place as a result of the Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation. In counterpoint to his overriding confidence in reason, a persistent current in Spinoza's writing shows how concerned he was about a possible loss of confidence in his governing idea of a single Substance, the philosophical God with which he sought to replace the creator God of the Bible. In promoting art as a means of filling the gap left by the absence of Spino
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Taylor & Francis Urban Green Space Usage and Nature Satisfaction
Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces. It explores the use of spaces such as parks, waterfronts, wooded areas, and fields among different life course phases and socio-economic classes.Through a detailed analysis of primary data from two major German cities, Cologne and Hamburg, the book examines the availability, use, and satisfaction with urban green spaces, and provides insights into the predictors of nature satisfaction in an urban context. The books also combine the subjective assessments of the respondents with objective data. It considers the varying reliance on urban green spaces due to the availability of private green spaces and individual nature relatedness. It provides insights on the needs of different population groups in cities, providing a scientific basis for improving or implementing green space planning approaches.This book will be of interest to researchers in socio
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CRC Press Mr. InBetween
Book SynopsisWhatâs changed most in your lifetime? The switch from land lines to cell phones? From snail mail to email? How about the transition from Bugs Bunny to Buzz Lightyear? Those Bugs and Daffy cartoons you loved as a kid look nothing like the PIXAR classics Toy Story or The Incredibles.Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution is the fascinating and hilarious saga of one of animation's computer graphics pioneers, Bill Kroyer, making his way to Hollywood to end up as a key figure in the technical revolution of animationâs Second Golden Age. He provides an artistâs explanation of the fundamental principles of animation, from the basic mechanics of motion to the immersive, artful experience of visualizing and realizing the performance of an imaginary character.Rather than a scholarly listing of films and filmmakers, the book is instead a captivating first-person journey through what may be the most important transition in the history of the artsâthe transformation and renaissance of the animated film in the digital age. An important work for scholars, and an eye-opening and page-turning adventure for any film or cartoon fan, Mr. In-Between is a book that has the ultimate writing credit. Bill Kroyer was there.Key Features: Explains the step-by-step evolution of the digital tools of computer animation, from the most basic primitive âœscriptedâ motion to the current application of artificial intelligence Describes some of the most remarkable, eccentric, and colorful geniuses who populated the quirky now-vanished subculture of âœhand-drawn animationâ Takes the reader on a world-wide tour of animation studios on four continents, explaining the vast cultural differences, but common artistic devotion, of animators in places as diverse as communist China, Europe, India, and the Philippines Recounts fascinating and surprising interactions with world-famous celebrities that worked with the animation industry, including legendary musicians, Oscar-winning actors and the King of the United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Staging Monstrous Bodies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Autonomous Vehicles Set
Book SynopsisThis two-volumecollection brings together Joseph Giacomin''s recent books on autonomous road vehicles for professionals and students.Humans and Autonomous Vehicles provides an introduction to the Human Centred Design of autonomous vehicles.While rapid progress is being made in the field of autonomous road vehicles the majority of actions and theresearch address the technical challenges, with little attention to the physical, perceptual, cognitive and emotional needs of humans. This book fills a gap in the knowledge by providing an easily understandable introduction to the needs and desires of people in relation to autonomous vehicles. The book is human centred design led, adding an important human perspective to the primarily technology-driven debates about autonomous vehicles. It combines knowledge from fields ranging from linguistics to electrical engineering to provide a holistic, multidisciplinary overview of the issues affecting the interactions between aut
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Taylor & Francis Liang Shaojiâs Silkworm Art
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daoism-inspired ecological motif of âziranâ. Are silkworms co-authors or alienated fabricators in such creative practice? Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted in China, the book delves into Liangâs artistic techniques involving close collaboration with silkworm farmers and biologists. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to discussions of non-human agency and labour. The author unveils the intricate power dynamics between silkworms and their caretakers, revealing multi-sensory knowledge, anthropomorphic kinship and moral dilemmas inherent in working with these insects. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars working in the anthropology of art, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.
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Taylor & Francis Pop Music and Easy Listening
Book SynopsisWhat defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? Arranged in three parts: Aesthetics and Authenticity - Groove, Sampling and Industry - Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Politics, this collection of essays by a group of international scholars deals with these questions in diverse ways. This volume prepares the reader for the debates around pop's intricate historical, aesthetic and cultural roots. The intellectual perspectives on offer present the interdisciplinary aspects of studying music and, spanning more than twenty-five years, these essays form a snapshot of some of the authorial voices that have shaped the specific subject matter of pop criticism within the broader field of popular music studies. A common thread running through these essays is the topic of interpretation and its relation to conceptions of musicality, subjectivity and aesthetics. The principle aim of this collection is to demonstrate that pop music needs to be evaluated on its own
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Taylor & Francis Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern Iberian world, in particular the spectacles staged by and for the Spanish Habsburgs. The study of early modern Iberian festival culture in Europe and the wider world is surprisingly limited compared to the published works devoted to other kingdoms at the time. There is a clear need for scholarly publications to examine festivals as a vehicle for the presence of Spanish culture beyond territorial boundaries. The present books responds to this shortcoming. Festivals and ceremonials played a major role in the Spanish world; through them local identities as well as a common Spanish culture made their presence manifest within and beyond the peninsula through ephemeral displays, music and print. Loc
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CRC Press Floating Point Numerics for Games and Simulations
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CRC Press Get Into Game Dev
Book SynopsisGet Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. Itâs designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and rigor necessary to land some of the most highly sought-after roles within interactive media.Unlike generic interview-prep books, GIGD maintains a laser-focus on game development to directly prepare candidates for roles like technical designer and gameplay engineer. Topics include 3D maths, programming fundamentals, and software design patterns. The author provides high quality instruction and practice problems based on his experience as a professional instructor and developer.Key Features: Includes an extensive set of practice questions taken from interviews of leading game development studios. Synthesizes coding and maths fundamentals into focused instruction, directly applicable to game development. Culminates in a rigorous
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Routledge Adventurous Film Making
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CRC Press Game Design Deep Dive
Book SynopsisGame Design Critic and expert Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high-highs and low-lows, and Josh is taking up the task to explain what a metroidvania is, the very long history and variety of it, and what you need to do to create one yourself. A look at the history of metroidvania design A primer on 2D platforming UI/UX Explaining the design and specific elements that make a metroidvania, or could be applied to other genres Perfect for designers and students alike
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Taylor & Francis Writing Making and Distributing Your Short Film
Book SynopsisThis book is a concise, practical guide to writing and making a successful short film. In an accessible and relatable tone, the book covers the filmmaking process from plot ideation to film distribution, without getting bogged down in the complicated details. Written by an experienced writer and filmmaker, the book shows you how to create content, from script to screen, that can connect with an audience. It does so by considering classic storytelling templates like Aristotleâs Three-Act Structure and Joseph Campbellâs âœThe Heroâs Journeyâ, as well as examining a variety of successful short filmsâanalyzing what makes them work, or not, and why. To support learning, it also provides a list of recommended short films to study, with brief background information on each. This is supplemented with the authorâs personal experiences of writing and making films, along with exclusive insights from successful Hollywood and independent writers and producers. There are also questions and prompt
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Taylor & Francis Best Fit Lines Curves
Book SynopsisBest Fit Lines and Curves, and Some Mathe-Magical Transformations (Volume III of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) concentrates on techniques for finding the Best Fit Line or Curve to some historical data allowing us to interpolate or extrapolate the implied relationship that will underpin our prediction. A range of simple Moving Measures' are suggested to smooth the underlying trend and quantify the degree of noise or scatter around that trend. The advantages and disadvantages are discussed and a simple way to offset the latent disadvantage of most Moving Measure Techniques is provided. Simple Linear Regression Analysis, a more formal numerical technique that calculates the line of best fit subject to defined goodness of fit' criteria. Microsoft Excel is used to demonstrate how to decide whether the line of best fit is a good fit, or just a solution in search of some data. These principles are then extended to cover multiple cost drivers, and ho
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Art Theory I
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Art Theory II
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CRC Press Principles of Multimedia
Book SynopsisPrinciples of Multimedia introduces and explains the theoretical concepts related to the representation, storage, compression, transmission and processing of various multimedia components, including text, image, graphics, audio, video and animation, as well as their use across various applications. The book provides the necessary programming tools and analysis techniques concepts to perform practical processing tasks in software labs and to solve numerical problems at the post-graduate level. For this new third edition, every chapter has been updated and the book has been carefully streamlined throughout.Chapter 1 provides an overview of multimedia technology, including the definition, major characteristics, hardware, software, standards, technologies and relevant theorems with mathematical formulations. Chapter 2 covers text, including digital text representations, text editing and processing tools, text application areas and text file formats. Chapters 3 and 4
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