In effective animation programming, one must be able to rely on theoretical knowledge as well as research-based insights in applicability. This updated version of Animation Maths contains an overview of both.
In addition to exploring collision detection, it also puts forward a discussion of programmable kinematics. These physics of motion, designed to complement programming, offer an invaluable tool in adding realism to games and animations. Furthermore, screen effects and image handling are taken to a professional level by a detailed outline of all the basic transformations.
The uniqueness of this book lies in its calculus-free approach. In order to cover the basics of the discipline, Animation Maths contains a brief summary of the fundamentals in arithmetics, solving systems and trigonometry. Animation Maths is accompanied by the website www.animationmaths.be which contains online support and useful downloads.
"Animation Maths achieves a perfect balance between deductive mathematics and broad accessibility, particularly through its interactive companion site." Leo Storme (Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, UGent) "With Animation Maths, Ivo De Pauw and Bieke Masselis present motion related mathematical subjects, ranging from trigonometry to quaternions and kinematics in an understandable fashion. It's a true game developers toolkit." Fries Carton (Guerrilla Games, Amsterdam)
Pain and discomfort related to the spine are extremely common, to the extent that back and neck pain may be considered part of the human condition. In most instances, interventions are not necessary. However, surgery can be required in some situations, and may be considered as a valuable option in others. In order to enable accurate patient counselling and to help in fine-tuning indications for surgery (for example, after unsatisfactory relief from conservative pain management), physiotherapists and rehabilitation specialists should be aware of surgery rationales and techniques. In most cases, surgery does not stand on its own, and postoperative rehabilitation will benefit from a certain degree of surgical knowledge by the physiotherapist and rehabilitation specialist. Additionally, it is paramount that all spinal caregivers speak the same vocabulary and issue the same messages to the patient. This little book explains surgical reasoning and surgical techniques to non-surgeons. It aims at crossing the bridge between surgical and rehabilitation paradigms to the benefit of patients. The entire field is covered in a concise and comprehensive way, and will be a must-read in spinal rehabilitation practices.
Ce guide accompagne le lecteur à la découverte de la risographie, commencant par une plongée dans ses origines jusqu'aux principes de base des techniques d'impression. Avec des exemples pratiques et le travail de créatifs du monde entier, le livre ouvre de nouveaux horizons sur cette technique et illustre la grande variété de possibilités offertes par des procédés relativement accessibles.
Quel est le point commun entre un four solaire, la construction en brique de terre crue et un système de récupération et de filtration des eaux de pluie ? Toutes ces techniques ont été présentées comme des « technologies appropriées » à partir des années 1970 et nombre d'entre elles sont aujourd'hui reprises et diffusées par le mouvement low-tech. Cette anthologie en français dirigée par Clément Gaillard rassemble et présente un ensemble de 29 textes publiés entre le début des années 1960 et aujourd'hui consacrés aux technologies appropriées et au low-tech, pour la plupart inédits en français ou devenus introuvables. Elle montre qu'il existe une profonde continuité entre les recherches sur les technologies alternatives et les applications directes de l'énergie solaire après le premier choc pétrolier et les préoccupations actuelles relatives à l'autonomie énergétique et l'autosuffisance. L'anthologie est décomposée en quatre parties qui traitent respectivement des technologies appropriées et de leur histoire, des méthodes pour concevoir low-tech, des applications directes de l'énergie solaire et des techniques alternatives pour capter et économiser l'eau dans un contexte de sécheresse grandissante. Elle s'adresse à celles et ceux qui sont intéressés par les low-tech et les énergies alternatives, qu'ils soient ingénieurs, historiens, économistes, designers, bricoleurs ou simples curieux.
Knitting is a versatile method that can produce fabrics with a wide range of properties for many uses, from apparel to medical applications to technical textiles. As a knitwear designer, it is crucial to have a comprehensive understanding of the industry and the materials and techniques used in knitwear production.
This book provides comprehensive technical information on the industry.
Considering the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to queer history in the US
Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing a place for individuals to meet, imagine and create a life less restricted by societal norms. Focusing on Los Angeles from the late 1930s through the 1960s, this catalog follows the lives of artists, writers, publishers, early sci-fi enthusiasts and progressive communities such as the L.A. Science Fantasy Society (LASFS), the Ordo Templi Orientis at the Agape Lodge (O.T.O.) and ONE, Inc. Spanning sci-fi fandom, aerospace research, queer history and the occult, Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation reveals how artists, scientists and visionary thinkers such as Kenneth Anger, Lisa Ben, Margaret Brundage, Morris Scott Dollens, Renate Druks, Curtis Harrington and Jim Kepner worked together to envision and create a world of their own making through films, photographs, music, illustrations, costumes and writing.
Featuring seven original essays on topics drawn from its accompanying PST ART exhibition, authors Joseph Hawkins, Joan Lubin, Alexis Bard Johnson, Ben Miller, Judith Noble, Kelly Filreis and Susan Aberth illuminate this unique historical moment alongside a generous selection of illustrations from salacious pulps, ritual paintings and archival materials. It will appeal to amateurs and enthusiasts alike, introducing rarely discussed artists such as Morris Scott Dollens, Renate Druks and Wallace Smith. Widely known figures including Cameron, Lisa Ben and Kenneth Anger are also given renewed consideration within these new contexts.
En dépit des précédents de Three Mile Island (1979), Tchernobyl (1986) ou Fukushima (2011), notre slogan national n'a guère changé : " En France, on a pas de pétrole, mais on a des idées ! ". Pourtant, le débat est loin d'être clos. Tour à tour alternative incontournable ou part maudite du " mix énergétique ", le nucléaire avance sur trois fronts : essor mondial, recul européen, maintien français. Alors que nos 58 réacteurs fournissent toujours 80% de notre électricité, seule la centrale de Fessenheim devrait fermer fin 2016... sans que notre " société du risque " ne sache à ce jour la démanteler ! Modeste, le témoignage de Claude Parent - qui dirigea pour EDF le Collège du nucléaire pendant dix ans - en dévoile les totems, mais aussi les tabous...
''A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer'' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ''Wood Wide Web'', is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented. Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself. ''One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you. Astounding'' Helen MacDonald, author of H Is for Hawk
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) n'est pas qu'un ingénieur de talent. Il est également cet inventeur un peu fou qui a imaginé aussi bien les dômes héliportables pour l'US Army que ceux bricolés par les hippies de Drop City. Du premier Pas sur la Lune à la Chute de Saigon (en passant par la " bombe P ", le Rapport Meadows et le Premier Choc pétrolier), Fuller organisa des universités d'été se proposant de modéliser la crise énergétique mondiale à venir. Surnommé E3 par Stewart Brand (le fondateur du Whole Earth Catalog), Energy, Earth, and Everyone est le titre judicieusement retenu par Medard Gabel en 1975. Accompagné d'une contribution de Gene Youngblood, un disciple de la première heure, prend alors forme une passionnante archéologie des politiques énergétiques contemporaines...
Après les succès de The Sick Rose, Crucial Interventions puis Anatomical Venus, cette série réalisée avec la Wellcome Collection se poursuit avec l'Histoire des soins dentaires de l'âge de bronze à aujourd'hui. L'auteur Richard Barnett y retrace la vie de nos bouches, des pinces médiévales pour arracheurs de dents aux affiches incitant les enfants des années 30 à l'hygiène buco-dentaire en passant par les premières prothèses, les planches anatomiques, les emballages arts déco des poudres et pâtes garantissant l'haleine fraîche, et l'importance du sourire chez les stars hollywoodiennes des années 50.
A world history of citrus, from the art of antiquity to the science of the modern era.
Citrus traces the history of today's global superfood from its cultivation in the ancient world from just a handful of original wild species, via Arab trade routes, the noble collectors of medieval Europe, imperial conquerors on the high seas, and merchants betting on the highest-value fruit crop ever known.
The story of citrus permeates human history, as recorded in the literature and art of civilizations from antiquity to the present day. When Alexander the Great's army swept over the Persian Empire, they found the citron: the first citrus fruit known in the West. During the Napoleonic wars, British ships carried lemons and limes to protect their sailors against scurvy; the "Limeys" ruled the waves. As the citrus trade grew in importance in the nineteenth century, the Sicilian Mafia was established among citrus farmers, protecting their crops and their livelihoods.
Mandarin, citron, pomelo, bergamot, kumquat-a glorious abundance of citrus fruits has delighted and stimulated ancient thinkers and explorers, Arab geographers and scientists, European royalty, artists, physicians, and plant breeders. From the art of the Renaissance to modern advertising and graphic design, this richly illustrated, invigorating cultural history reveals how these extraordinary, life-giving fruits have flavored, scented, healed, and colored our world.
Ce beau livre présente des photographies inédites,presque tombées dans l'oubli, qui ont été prises par les astronautes d'Apollo pendant leurs missions et numérisées au prix d'un minutieux travail. Parmi plus de 27 000 clichés issus des archives de la NASA, les auteurs ont?sélectionné un florilège de 225 images. Cette documentation unique en son genre sur l'événement probablement le plus important du XXe siècle s'accompagne d'informations de première main et d'une préface substantielle rédigée par Walter Cunningham, astronaute de la NASA.?Cet ouvrage enchantera non seulement les passionnés d'aéronautique et d'aérospatiale mais encore les amateurs de photographie et quiconque s'intéresse à l'histoire contemporaine.
Les auteurs Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, et Delano Steenmeijer ont passé au crible les gigantesques archives photographiques de la NASA pour dénicher des images exceptionnelles des missions Apollo.
L'astronaute Walter Cunningham était pilote en second lors de la mission Apollo 7, le premier vol habité mis en orbite terrestre par une fusée spatiale Saturn 1B.
As an introduction and history of geometric shapes that goes beyond shapes, the book offers thorough analyses on how geometric shapes emerge, develop and evolve in visual arts. How do shapes always successfully withstand the test of time? It is a secret hidden in the magnificent masterpieces by the great masters. Let's take a look in it and enjoy the beautifully constructed geometric visual language to the full.
An interdisciplinary guide to the 20th-century Southern California-based artists who investigated phenomena from the realms of optical science, astronomy, aerospace engineering and math
The synergy between art and science is an age-old tale; artists throughout time, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beeple, have incorporated newly discovered scientific theories and techniques into their practices. The PST ART project Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science explores a particularly fecund yet underexplored period in the history of art and science's cross-fertilization. The development of postwar industry and research in Southern California inspired a host of artistic innovations; for decades, abstract artists from the region experimented with color, form and mediums, variously employing ideas or procedures gleaned from the latest developments in physics, astronomy and mathematics.
Particles and Waves unites several generations of artists working in diverse materials and styles to visualize light, energy, motion and time. Boasting a gorgeous cover, the volume features a wide array of artists and topics, from Man Ray's paintings of mathematical models to Lee Mullican's computer-inspired abstractions, and from to the West Coast Minimalists and Light and Space artists' (including Mary Corse, Fred Eversley and James Turrell) rigorous studies of light to Bettina Brendel and Helen Lundeberg's investigations of scale through their paintings of subatomic and astronomical subjects.
A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.
An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.
The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. From 2003-2019, he was also one of Amazon's most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied «Top 100» and «Hall of Fame» status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian's commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer's endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark.
Some for «verified purchases,» others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian's reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny-flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly-earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian's reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique.
Killian's prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: «They're reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They're poems. They're essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.»
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child''s growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities--developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.
A spectacular visual history of video games from 1958 to the present
In the past sixty-five years, video games have evolved from primitive computer-lab experiments into one of the world's most popular forms of entertainment and?many would say?an important new art form. Video Games traces every step of this fascinating journey, from Pong to the Atari 2600; to the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles; to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom; to Playstation and Xbox; to MMORPGs; to Minecraft and Fortnite; to Twitch streaming.
The lively text gives equal attention to the games, the gaming platforms, and the personalities and subcultures of the gaming world. It is illustrated throughout with beautiful color photographs of mint-condition retro hardware and cartridges from one of the world's finest collections, and with screenshots of classic games. Video Games is the perfect nostalgic gift for gamers of every generation.
