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• Overview
• Typical Facial Beauty Analysis
• Facial Landmark Model Designs
• Geometrics Facial Beauty Study
• Putative Ratio Rules for Facial Beauty
• Beauty Analysis Fusion Model of Texture and Geometric Features
• Optimal Feature Set for Facial Beauty Analysis
• Examination of Averageness Hypothesis on Large Database
• A New Hypothesis on Facial Beauty Perception
• Beauty Analysis by Learning Machine and Subspace Extension
• Combining a Causal Effect Criterion for Evaluation of Facial Beauty Models
• Data-Driven Facial Beauty Analysis: Prediction, Retrieval and Manipulation
• A Facial Beauty Analysis Simulation System
• Book Review and Future Work.

• 1. Getting Started 2. Define Game Layout and Environment
• 3. Create Positioning and Movement
• 4. Scripting a Game Manager
• 5. Adding Sound and Music
• 6. Game Power Ups
• 7. Level Manager and Menu
• 8. Publishing to the App Store.
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Create and complete your first 2D arcade game in Unity. In this book you will learn to create an arcade classic brick breaker game from beginning to end. You will plan the game flow, add the graphics and create the game logic using the C# language, then build the UX to complete your game. By the time you have finished Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend with Unity, you will have enough knowledge to tweak the game to create more levels or your own variant game rules, and you will have the confidence to go on and create your own 2D arcade games. You will also learn how to publish the game into mobile app stores. Unity is a powerful cross platform software tool that allows users to create 2D and 3D apps and games. Learning how to create an arcade classic game is a great way to learn the foundations of game design. While you do need to have a basic understanding of Unity to complete this project, advanced game building or advanced Unity experience is not required. Takes you through building a classic Atari style brick breaker game Provides you the basic knowledge for building games Teaches you how to script and design UI elements of the game.
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• Swinging from Digital Playgrounds.- At the Intersection of Digital and Physical Play: The Lifecycle of a Two Bit Circus Game.- Story Room: The Computer as Live-action Storyteller for Adaptive Game Play.- Virtual Reality and the Future of Entertainment.- Interview with Brent N. Bushnell, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Bit Circus.
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This brief will explore topics in computer science through the lens of Two Bit Circus, an engineering entertainment company based out of downtown Los Angeles. This brief examines the ways they apply computer science to a wide variety of applications, including interactive games, immersive adventures, and virtual reality. The authors demonstrate how technology can encourage children and adults to become more comfortable with the STEAM field. Educators and people interested in the ways that innovation and technology can solve current problems in entertainment, healthcare, education, and business will find this brief a valuable resource. Two Bit Circus creates unique productions that encourage playful collaboration across multiple platforms in interactive and meaningful ways. The company produces high tech games and immersive entertainment experiences that merge physical and digital play.
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• Chapter 1 The Foundation of Digital Audio: The Wave Chapter 2 The History of Digital Audio: MIDI Synthesis Chapter 3 The Accuracy of Digital Audio: Sample Resolution Chapter 4 The Clarity of Digital Audio: Sampling Frequency Chapter 5 The Compression of Digital Audio: Data Formats Chapter 6 The Isolation of Digital Audio: Trimming Tools Chapter 7 The Cleanup of Digital Audio: Noise Removal
• Chapter 8 The Algorithms of Digital Audio: Audio Processing Chapter 9 The Automation of Digital Audio: Plug-in Filters Chapter 10 The Work Process of Digital Audio: Editing Chapter 11 The Wow Factor of Digital Audio: Special Effects Chapter 12 The Data Footprint of Digital Audio: Optimization Chapter 13 The Automation of Digital Audio: Programming.
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This concise book builds upon the foundational concepts of MIDI, synthesis, and sampled waveforms. It also covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, streaming versus captive digital audio new media assets, digital audio programming and publishing platforms, and why data footprint optimization is important for modern day new media content development and distribution. Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals is a new media mini-book covering concepts central to digital audio editing using the Audacity open source software package which also apply to all of the professional audio editing packages. The book gets more advanced as chapters progress, and covers key concepts for new media producers such as how to maximize audio quality and which digital audio new media formats are best for use with Kindle, Android Studio, Java, JavaFX, iOS, Blackberry, Tizen, Firefox OS, Chrome OS, Opera OS, Ubuntu Touch and HTML5. You will learn: Industry terminology involved in digital audio editing, synthesis, sampling, analysis and processing The work process which comprises a fundamental digital audio editing, analysis, and effects pipeline The foundational audio waveform sampling concepts that are behind modern digital audio publishing How to install, and utilize, the professional, open source Audacity digital audio editing software Concepts behind digital audio sample resolution and sampling frequency and how to select settings How to select the best digital audio data codec and format for your digital audio content application How to go about data footprint optimization, to ascertain which audio formats give the best results Using digital audio assets in computer programming languages and content publishing platforms.
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• Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Part I: Audiophotography Defined.- Ambient Photographs.- Ambient Photographs.- Talking Photographs.- Conversational Photographs.- Paper Versus Screen Playback.- Part II: What Happened Next?.- Research and Development Within HP.- External Research.- External Development.- Lessons.- Index.
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As well as updating the manifesto for an audio photography technology and practice, this book addresses issues in design history, the social shaping of technology and the management of innovation. In particular, it reveals the very different timescales over which design and innovation operate, and the way in which design ideas evolve across different research groups, companies and application areas. The capture of photographs with sound is a simple idea, proposed 10 years ago, that has still not become widespread. In this new edition of the seminal 2004 book on Audio photography, the author asks "Why?" A journey through the book's citations and related commercial products shows considerable progress in understanding the role of sound in photography, and myriad design experiments to support audio visual storytelling as a new media form. The book is a story in itself about the "long nose of innovation", and a lesson about the need for patience and persistence in the computer industry. To reinforce this point five of the 2004 chapters are re-published in their original form. These describe invariant properties of ambient musical, talking and conversational photographs, and the possibility of playback from paper as well as screen. Fast Design, Slow Innovation will be of interest to researchers and designers of new media systems and experiences, and to innovation scholars or managers looking for a ten year case study of innovation in action.
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• Chapter 1: Why Sketch?
• Chapter 2: The Sketch Interface
• Chapter 3: Shapes and Styles
• Chapter 4: Symbols
• Chapter 5: Text and Fonts
• Chapter 6: Optimizing Your Workflow
• Chapter 7: Creating a Simple App
• Chapter 8: Creating an Icon
• Chapter 9: Exporting Assets for Development
• Chapter 10: Sketch Resources and Plugins.
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Designing for iOS with Sketch takes you through the process of designing your iOS app using Bohemian Code's Sketch. Sketch is a powerful new design program that is quickly replacing Adobe PhotoShop for many designers designing for mobile apps and the mobile web. This book will introduce you to the program and then take you through the steps of designing your very own app. It includes examples and shortcuts as well as a helpful list of plugins and 3rd party resources that will greatly improve your workflow.
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• Table of Contents Introduction to Qt Installation Qt GUI Programming Custom 2D graphics with Graphics View Animations in Graphics View Qt Core Essentials Networking Custom Widgets Using OpenGL in Qt Scripting Introduction to Qt Quick Customization in Qt Quick Animations in Qt Quick games Advanced visual effects in Qt Quick 3D graphics with Qt Miscellaneous and Advanced Concepts.
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A complete guide to designing and building fun games with Qt and Qt Quick using associated toolsets Key Features A step by step guide to learn Qt by building simple yet entertaining games Get acquainted with a small yet powerful addition-Qt Gamepad Module, that enables Qt applications to support the use of gamepad hardware Understand technologies such as QML, OpenGL, and Qt Creator to design intuitive games Book DescriptionQt is the leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms and is becoming popular by the day, especially on mobile and embedded devices. It's a powerful tool that perfectly fits the needs of game developers. This book will help you learn the basics of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games. The book begins by how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms. You will learn how to use built-in Qt widgets and Form Editor to create a GUI application and then learn the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts. Further, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. You will learn about Qt's capabilities for handling strings and files, data storage, and serialization. Moving on, you will learn about the new Qt Gamepad module and how to add it in your game and then delve into OpenGL and Vulcan, and how it can be used in Qt applications to implement hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. You will then explore various facets of Qt Quick: how it can be used in games to add game logic, add game physics, and build astonishing UIs for your games. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skillset to develop interesting games with Qt. What you will learn Install the latest version of Qt on your system Understand the basic concepts of every Qt game and application Develop 2D object-oriented graphics using Qt Graphics View Build multiplayer games or add a chat function to your games with Qt Network module Script your game with Qt QML Explore the Qt Gamepad module in order to integrate gamepad support in C++ and QML applications Program resolution-independent and fluid UIs using QML and Qt Quick Control your game flow in line with mobile device sensors Test and debug your game easily with Qt Creator and Qt Test Who this book is forIf you want to create great graphical user interfaces and astonishing games with Qt, this book is ideal for you. No previous knowledge of Qt is required; however knowledge of C++ is mandatory.
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• 1 Introduction.- 2 Contributing Disciplines.- 3 Design of Serious Games.- 4 Authoring Processes and Tools.- 5 Content and Content Production.- 6 Game Engines.- 7 Personalization and Adaptation.- 8 Multiplayer Serious Games.- 9 Player Experience.- 10 Performance Assessment in Serious Games.- 11 Serious Games - Economic and Legal Issues.- 12 Serious Games Application Examples.- About the Authors.- Index.
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This textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of serious games, which differ considerably from computer games that are meant for pure entertainment. Undergraduate and graduate students from various disciplines who want to learn about serious games are one target group of this book. Prospective developers of serious games are another, as they can use the book for self-study in order to learn about the distinctive features of serious game design and development. And ultimately, the book also addresses prospective users of serious game technologies by providing them with a solid basis for judging the advantages and limitations of serious games in different application areas such as game-based learning, training and simulation or games for health. To cater to this heterogeneous readership and wide range of interests, every effort was made to make the book flexible to use. All readers are expected to study Chapter 1, as it provides the necessary basics and terminology that will be used in all subsequent chapters. The eleven chapters that follow cover the creation of serious games (design, authoring processes and tools, content production), the runtime context of serious games (game engines, adaptation mechanisms, game balancing, game mastering, multi-player serious games), the effects of serious games and their evaluation (player experience, assessment techniques, performance indicators), and serious games in practice (economic aspects, cost-benefit analysis, serious game distribution). To familiarize the readers with best practice in this field, the final chapter presents more than 30 selected examples of serious games illustrating their characteristics and showcasing their practical use. Lecturers can select chapters in a sequence that is most suitable for their specific course or seminar. The book includes specific suggestions for courses such as "Introduction to Serious Games", "Entertainment Technology", "Serious Game Design", "Game-based Learning", and "Applications of Serious Games".
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• Introduction.- A 'Kansei' Multimedia and Semantic Computing System for Cross-Cultural Communication.- Cross-cultural Aesthetics: Analyses and Experiments in Verbal and Visual Arts.- Information Sensibility as a Cultural Characteristic: Tuning to Sound Details for Aesthetic Experience.
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The ability to communicate cultural codes in multimedia depends on their meaning and beauty, as perceived by different audiences around the globe. In this book, the ongoing research on computational modeling of visual, musical and textual contents is described in terms of identifying and mapping their semantic representations across different cultures. The underlying psychology of sense-making is quantified through analysis of aesthetics in terms of organizational and structural aspects of the contents that influence an audience's formation of expectations for future signals, violations of these expectations, and explanations of their meaning. Complexity-accuracy tradeoffs in sound representation are further used to develop new computational methods that capture poietic and aesthetic aspects in music communication. Experimental studies are reported that try to characterize preferences for complexity in abstract, classical and traditional art and music across samples of Western and Far Eastern cultures. These experiments illustrate how aesthetics can be computed in terms of semantic and information measures, highlighting commonalities and uncovering differences in aesthetic preferences across cultures and individuals.
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• Introduction.- Principles of Psychoacoustics.- Audio Watermarking Techniques.- Proposed Audio Watermarking Scheme.- Experimental Results of Performance Evaluation.- Perceptual Evaluation Using Objective Quality Measures.
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This book illustrates the commonly used and novel approaches of audio watermarking for copyrights protection. The author examines the theoretical and practical step by step guide to the topic of data hiding in audio signal such as music, speech, broadcast. The book covers new techniques developed by the authors are fully explained and MATLAB programs, for audio watermarking and audio quality assessments and also discusses methods for objectively predicting the perceptual quality of the watermarked audio signals. * Explains the theoretical basics of the commonly used audio watermarking techniques* Discusses the methods used to objectively and subjectively assess the quality of the audio signals* Provides a comprehensive well tested MATLAB programs that can be used efficiently to watermark any audio media.
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• Foreword.- Preface.- Metaphors and User Interfaces in the 21st Century.- Culture Class vs. Culture Clash.- CHI as a Cross-Tribal Community.- Dare We Define User-Interface Design?.- The Cult of Cute: The Challenge of User-Experience Design.- User-Interface Design and China: A Great Leap Forward.- Universal, Ubiquitous, User-Interface Design for the Disabled and Elderly.- Icons/Symbols and More: Visible Languages to Facilitate Communication.- What Do UI Designers Think About Protecting Their Designs?.- When is a User Not a User? Who Are We? What Do We Do?.- The Emotion Commotion.- The Next Revolution: Vehicle User Interfaces.- Patterns within Patterns.- User-Experience Planning for Corporate Success.- Insights on Outsourcing.- Branding 101 It's About Time.- User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Enterprise: Corporations Begin to Focus on UCD.- Dreaming of Robots: An Interview About Robots with Bruce Sterling.- The Out-of-Box Home Experience: Remote from Reality.- Usability Grows Up: The Great Debate.- Education and CHI.- When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do: HCII 2005 Recap.- Dashboards in Your Future.- Visualizing the Future of Information Visualization.- HCI Sci-Fi at the Movies and on TV.- Wit and Wisdom: Where Do We Turn for Advice?.- From KidCHI to BabyCHI
• SeniorCHI: The Geezers are Coming!.- Taxonomies to Tax the Couch-Potato's Cortex
• Happy Birthday! CHI at 25.- Big Spaces, Big Lives, Big Challenges.- Fun! Fun! Fun! In the User Experience.- Am I Pushing Your Buttons?
• The Sun Rises in the East.- HCI Goes Mainstream in the Comics.- Saving the USA, and So Can You: FaceBucks to the Rescue.
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This book consists of a series of essays which addresses the essentials of the development processes in user-experience design (UX design) planning, research, analysis, evaluation, training and implementation, and deals with the essential components (metaphors, mental models, navigation, and appearance) of user-interfaces and user-experiences during the period of 2002-2007. These essays grew from the authors own column entitled 'Fast Forward' which appeared in Interaction Magazine - the flagship publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computing Interaction (SIGCHI). Written in such a way as to ensure longevity, these essays have not been edited or updated, however a short Postscripts has been added to provide some comments on each topic from a current perspective. HCI and User-Experience Design provides a fascinating historical review of the professional and research world of UX and HCI during a period of significant growth and development and would be of interest to students, researchers, and designers who are interested in recent developments within the field.
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• Introduction
• Color Image Watermarking Using Magic Square and Curvelet Based Technique
• Color Still Image Watermarking Using Magic Square and Ridgelet Based Technique
• Color Image Watermarking Using Fractals and Curvelets
• Conclusions and Future Scope.

This book describes the design, development, and testing of a novel digital watermarking technique for color images using Magic Square and Ridgelet transforms. The novel feature of the method is that it generates and uses multiple copies of the digital watermark. The book describes how the method was tested for embedding digital watermarks into color cover images, resulting in very high PSNR value and yielding comparable results with existing watermarking techniques. To reach this new method, eight different techniques are designed, developed and tested. First, the authors test two digital watermarking techniques based on encryption: Image Watermark Using Complete Complementary Code Technique (CCCT) and Image Watermarking Using CCC-Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform Technique (CCC-FWHTT). Next, four digital watermarking techniques based on curvelet transforms are discussed: Image Watermarking Using Curvelet Transform (WCT), Watermark Wavelets in Curvelets of Cover Image (WWCT), Resized Watermark into Curvelets of Cover Image (RWCT), and Resized Watermark Wavelets into Curvelets of Cover Image (RWWCT). Then, two final techniques are presented: Image Watermarking Based on Magic Square (MST) and Image watermarking based on Magic Square and Ridgelet Transform (MSRTT). Future research directions are explored in the final chapter. Designed for professionals and researchers in computer graphics and imaging, Digital Watermarking Techniques in Curvelet and Ridgelet Domain is also a useful tool for advanced-level students.

• Preface vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction / Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien 1 I. Theories and Genealogies
• 1. Ethnodigital Sonics and the Historical Imagination / Richard Cullen Rath 29
• 2. Performing Zora: Critical Ethnography, Digital Sound, and Not Forgetting / Myron M. Beasley 47
• 3. Rhetorical Folkness: Reanimating Walter J. Ong in the Pursuit of Digital Humanity / Jonathan W. Stone 64 II. Digital Communities
• 4. The Pleasure (Is) Principle: Sounding Out! and the Digitizing of Community / Aaron Trammell, Jennifer Lynn Stover, and Liana Silva 83
• 5. Becoming OutKasted: Archiving Contemporary Black Southernness in a Digtal Age / Regina N. Bradley 120
• 6. Reprogramming Sounds of Learning: Pedagogical Experiments with Critical Making and Community-Based Ethnography / W. F. Umi Hsu 130 III. Disciplinary Translations
• 7. Word. Spoken. Articulating the Voice for High-Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) / Tanya E. Clement 155
• 8. "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear": Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation / Michael J. Kramer 178
• 9. Augmenting Musical Arguments: Interdisciplinary Publishing Platforms and Augmented Notes / Joanna Swafford 215 IV. Points Forward
• 10. Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment / Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden 231
• 11. Sound Practices for Digital Humanities / Steph Ceraso 250 Afterword. Demands of Duration: The Futures of Digital Sound Scholarship / Jonathan Sterne, with Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien 267 Contributors 285 Index 291.
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The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume's contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines-including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science-the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive. As they demonstrate, incorporating sound into scholarship is thus not only feasible but urgently necessary. Contributors. Myron M. Beasley, Regina N. Bradley, Steph Ceraso, Tanya Clement, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, W. F. Umi Hsu, Michael J. Kramer, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Richard Cullen Rath, Liana M. Silva, Jonathan Sterne, Jennifer Stoever, Jonathan W. Stone, Joanna Swafford, Aaron Trammell, Whitney Trettien .
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• Introduction
• Discuss what Android TV is Discuss what needs to be considered before making the app (is it a game, or a media app? Does it make sense for the TV? DRM, supported formats, hardware restrictions. Why apps that are already created for tablets/phones need a design revamp) Creating a Hello World application in Android Studio
• Designing for TV
• Overscan, grids, 10' view, anti-patterns Colors and fonts
• Using voice and recommendations Allowing users to be relatively passive
• Creating a Media Application
• Manifest and gradle setup Introduce the Leanback library that will be used for the majority of the media app. RecyclerView grid of items, side navigation, preferences, cards Search Detail Fragment, recommendations
• Video activity - this will probably be a shorter subheader since it's more about how the user wants to set it up, or if I need to add more content I can go into a little detail on the ExoPlayer, which is an open source video player from Google
• Game Considerations
• General design consideration, setting up the manifest to support games How to work with the game controller - handling disconnects, new players, button and joystick interactions How to communicate between secondary Android devices (phone, tablet) and the Android TV for a second screen experience. Going to look into the Nearby Messages API that was released yesterday to see if that's more viable, otherwise I know the Nearby Connections API works well.
• Maybe a section on additional utilities in Play Game Services
• Distributing Android TV Applications
• Checklist of requirements to get approved for distribution on the Play Store, and details on what those requirements are.
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This one-of-a-kind short book walks you through creating fantastic entertainment apps for one of the newest Android platforms. Android TV Apps Development: Building Media and Games will demystify some of the newest APIs and present the tools necessary for building applications that run on Android TV. Walking through example applications, you will learn the vocabulary necessary to solve real-world problems and how to present your content on the television through Android. In addition to practical code examples, you will learn about various design considerations that will make using your apps an enjoyable experience for users. What you'll learn: How to design for Android TV How to create a media app for Android TV What are the game design/development considerations for Android TV How to distribute Android TV apps Audience:Developers with some experience with Android development who are interested in building applications for the Android TV platform.
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• 1. Enhance Your Android Apps: Use New Media Assets.-
• 2. Digital Images: Concepts, Terminology and Formats.-
• 3. Digital Image Assets: Data Footprint Optimization.-
• 4. Digital Audio: Concepts, Terminology and Formats.-
• 5. Digital Audio Assets: Data Footprint Optimization.-
• 6. Digital Video: Concepts, Terminology and Formats.-
• 7. Digital Video Assets: Data Footprint Optimization.-
• 8. Digital Illustration: Concepts, Terminology and Formats.-
• 9. Digital Illustration Assets: Data Footprint Optimization.-
• 10. 3D Animation: Concepts, Terminology and Formats.-
• 11. Referencing New Media Assets in Android Studio.-
• 12. Optimizing New Media Assets in Android Studio.
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This book is a brief primer covering concepts central to digital imagery, digital audio and digital illustration using open source software packages such as GIMP, Audacity and Inkscape. These are used for this book because they are free for commercial use. The book builds on the foundational concepts of raster, vector and waves (audio), and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what new media assets are best for use with Android Studio as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process and why it is important. What You Will Learn* What are the primary genres of new media content production* What new media assets Android Studio supports* What are the concepts behind new media content production* How to Install and use GIMP, Inkscape, and Audacity software* How to integrate that software with Android Studio, fast becoming the most popular IDE for Android apps design and development Audience Primary audience includes Android developers, especially game designers/developers and others who need access to multimedia elements. Secondary: multimedia producers, RIA developers, game designers, UI designers, and teachers.
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• Chapter 1: The Digital Darkroom is Born: Early Software and Hardware That Started The Digital Photography Revolution.-
• Chapter 2: The Lost Connection: Photographers Gain Power at the Desktop, Yet Lose the Connection to Simplicity.-
• Chapter 3: Touch Takes Hold: The Introduction of the iPhone and Touch Technology.-
• Chapter 4: A New Art Form is Born: The Art of iPhoneography and Touch Photography.-
• Chapter 5: Tools, Tricks and Techniques for Creative iPhoneography: Learn The Methods of Good Photography and Composition.-
• Chapter 6: Seeing Beyond Your Vision: More Techniques and Hands on Exercises To Develop Your Creativity.-
• Chapter 7: Connecting with The Community: Review and Recommendations on Popular Photo Sharing Services and Networks.- Appendix.
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This book introduces you to professional photography and composition principles, tricks and techniques of iphoneography, photosharing, and more. Do you have a smartphone with you right now? If you do, along with this book, you've got everything you need to make amazing photography. The first three chapters of the book use digital photography history to give you an overview of the capabilities that you can employ, and the remainder of the book is focused on hands on techniques of iphoneography so that you are getting professional results. This title uses the iPhone and iPhone apps in its examples; your own smart phone and individual apps may be different, but the techniques you'll gain from this book, and the insights into your own creative potential are not dependent on specific equipment. Maybe you occasionally take a great shot with your smartphone camera but you wonder what you need to keep doing right to make that kind of difference in all your shots. Maybe you're suspecting that you no longer need to lug around a DSLR camera to bring home great photographs. And maybe you just get a charge out of capturing inspired moments and sharing them in all the glory deserve with others. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: * An understanding of the methods used in DSLR photography vs iPhoneography. * The connection between the iPhone and the artist. * Practical tips and techniques for creating photos and art with your iPhone. * Taking your visions further with discovery and chance explorations.* Connecting with the iPhoneography and iPhone Art community. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: The audience is threefold: 1.) Amateur photographers who already sense that their smartphone is the only tool they truly need in order to grow their skills 2.) Serious photographers who are part of the growing "mobile art" movement that emphasizes creative eye over hardware 3.) Anyone with a smartphone who wants to take better photos (because anyone with a smartphone is already taking photos with regularity anyway).
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• Introduction
• Part I: From Perception to Computation
• Audio Acquisition, Representation and Storage
• Image and Video Acquisition, Representation and Storage
• Part II: Machine Learning
• Machine Learning
• Bayesian Theory of Decision
• Clustering Methods
• Foundations of Statistical Learning and Model Selection
• Supervised Neural Networks and Ensemble Methods
• Kernel Methods
• Markovian Models for Sequential Data
• Feature Extraction Methods and Manifold Learning Methods
• Part III: Applications
• Speech and Handwriting Recognition
• Speech and Handwriting Recognition
• Video Segmentation and Keyframe Extraction
• Real-Time Hand Pose Recognition
• Automatic Personality Perception
• Part IV: Appendices
• Appendix A: Statistics
• Appendix B: Signal Processing
• Appendix C: Matrix Algebra
• Appendix D: Mathematical Foundations of Kernel Methods
• Index.

This second edition focuses on audio, image and video data, the three main types of input that machines deal with when interacting with the real world. A set of appendices provides the reader with self-contained introductions to the mathematical background necessary to read the book. Divided into three main parts, From Perception to Computation introduces methodologies aimed at representing the data in forms suitable for computer processing, especially when it comes to audio and images. Whilst the second part, Machine Learning includes an extensive overview of statistical techniques aimed at addressing three main problems, namely classification (automatically assigning a data sample to one of the classes belonging to a predefined set), clustering (automatically grouping data samples according to the similarity of their properties) and sequence analysis (automatically mapping a sequence of observations into a sequence of human-understandable symbols). The third part Applications shows how the abstract problems defined in the second part underlie technologies capable to perform complex tasks such as the recognition of hand gestures or the transcription of handwritten data. Machine Learning for Audio, Image and Video Analysis is suitable for students to acquire a solid background in machine learning as well as for practitioners to deepen their knowledge of the state-of-the-art. All application chapters are based on publicly available data and free software packages, thus allowing readers to replicate the experiments.

• Introduction
• Memory Management
• Slow, Wildly Incompatible I/O
• Interpreters
• Data Compression
• Procedural Content Generation
• Protection
• Obfuscation and Optimization
• Endgame.

Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments. Using examples from over 100 retrogames, this book examines the clever implementation tricks that game designers employed to make their creations possible, documenting these techniques that are being lost. However, these retrogame techniques have modern analogues and applications in general computer systems, not just games, and this book makes these contemporary connections. It also uses retrogames' implementation to introduce a wide variety of topics in computer systems including memory management, interpretation, data compression, procedural content generation, and software protection. Retrogame Archeology targets professionals and advanced-level students in computer science, engineering, and mathematics but would also be of interest to retrogame enthusiasts, computer historians, and game studies researchers in the humanities"--Provided by publisher

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface;
• Chapter 1: Physically Based Rendering; Introduction; Setting up a studio scene; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Working inside the material editor; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Our first physically based material; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Creating some simple glass with the translucent blend mode; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; Lighting our scene with image-based lighting; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ...

• Checking the cost of our materialsGetting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ;
• Chapter 2: Post-Processing Effects; Introduction; Using a post-process volume; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; See also; Changing the mood of a scene through color grading; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Setting up a cinematic shot using depth of field; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Applying cinematic effects to our games; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also

• Mimicking a real-life camera using Bloom and Lens FlaresGetting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; A horror movie pulsating effect with post process materials; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Adjusting anti aliasing and other rendering features; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also;
• Chapter 3: Opaque Materials and Texture Mapping; Introduction; Using masks within a material; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Instancing a material

• Getting readyHow to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Texturing a small prop; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; A plastic cloth using Fresnel and detail texturing; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Creating a semi procedural material; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Baking out a material; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Distance-based texture blending; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ...

• There's more ... See also; Chapter 4: Translucent Materials and More; Introduction; Creating a candle material with SSS; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Setting up a truly transparent glass; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; A different type of translucency
• holograms; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Achieving realistic reflections; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Mastering refraction by creating a pool water material

Unreal Shaders and Effects Cookbook is the first of its kind to bring you the secrets of creating Shaders for Unreal. This book guides you through the process of creating almost any conceivable material while understanding at the same time what happens under the hood - from the PBR workflow to using many of the very useful nodes Unreal includes

• Table of Contents Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror Coloring Models with Materials and UV Maps Flattening a Torus and Boolean Union Using Empties to Model the Base of the House The Subdivision Surface Modifier and Organic Shapes Converting a Bezier Curve to a Properly Sized 3D Mesh Mesh Modeling and Positioning the Details Thinking About Design Requirements Trial and Error
• Topography Edits Cutting Half Circle Holes and Modifier Management Fun with Fonts Troubleshooting and Repairing Models Applying Textures with Boolean Intersection Making Textures with the Array Modifier and Scalable Vector Graphics Using a Background Image and Bezier Curves.

Build four projects using Blender for 3D Printing, giving you all the information that you need to know to create high-quality 3D printed objects. About This Book * A project based guide that helps you design beautiful 3D printing objects in Blender * Use mesh modeling and intersections to make a custom architectural model of a house * Create a real world 3D printed prosthetic hand with organic modeling and texturing painting Who This Book Is For If you're a designer, artist, hobbyist and new to the world of 3D printing, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of Blender and geometry will help, but is not essential. What You Will Learn * Using standard shapes and making custom shapes with Bezier Curves * Working with the Boolean, Mirror, and Array Modifiers * Practicing Mesh Modeling tools such as Loop Cut and Slide and Extrude * Streamlining work with Proportional Editing and Snap During Transform * Creating Organic Shapes with the Subdivision Surface Modifier * Adding Color with Materials and UV Maps * Troubleshooting and Repairing 3D Models * Checking your finished model for 3D printability In Detail Blender is an open-source modeling and animation program popular in the 3D printing community. 3D printing brings along different considerations than animation and virtual reality. This book walks you through four projects to learn using Blender for 3D Printing, giving you information that you need to know to create high-quality 3D printed objects. The book starts with two jewelry projects-- a pendant of a silhouette and a bracelet with custom text. We then explore architectural modeling as you learn to makes a figurine from photos of a home. The final project, a human hand, illustrates how Blender can be used for organic models and how colors can be added to the design. You will learn modeling for 3D printing with the help of these projects. Whether you plan to print at-home or use a service bureau, you'll start by understanding design requirements. The book begins with simple projects to get you started with 3D modeling basics and the tools available in Blender. As the book progresses, you'll get exposed to more robust mesh modeling techniques, modifiers, and Blender shortcuts. By the time you reach your final project, you'll be ready for organic modeling and learning how to add colors. In the final section, you'll learn how to check for and correct common modeling issues to ensure the 3D printer can make your idea a reality! Style and approach The profile pendant teaches background images, Bezier Curves, and Boolean Union. The Mirror Modifier, Boolean Difference, and Text objects are introduced with the coordinate bracelet. Mesh modeling, importing SVG files, and Boolean Intersection help make the house figurine. The human hand illustrates using the Subdivision Surface Modifier for organic shapes and adding color to your designs.
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