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GARMIN Rino 520HCX Two Way Radio and GPS. Know exactly where you are at all times with Rino 520HCx and the precision of high sensitivity GPS. This waterproof FRS/GMRS radio plus GPS navigator sports 5 watts of transmit power, a microSD card slot and brilliant color display along with a high sensitivity GPS receiver so you will never be lost again. With its high sensitivity GPS receiver, Rino 520HCx locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear whether you are in deep woods or just near tall buildings and trees, you can count on Rino 520HCx to help you find your way when you need it the most. Like the rest of the Rino series, Rino 520HCx offers a unique Position Reporting feature. Position Reporting lets you send your exact location to other Rino users in your group so that everyone can see your position on the map page. And, because Rino is a standard FRS/GMRS radio, you can use it to communicate with any other conventional FRS/GMRS radio around. Rino 520HCx boasts a whopping 5 watts of transmit power, GMRS, which lets you contact others from up to 14 miles away, line of sight. In Canada, you can transmit at 2 watts over GMRS with a range of up to 8 miles.

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Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
by Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz
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Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures is precisely what you and other RenderMan users are dying for. Written by the world's foremost RenderMan experts, it offers thoroughly updated coverage of the standard while moving beyond the scope of the original RenderMan Companion to provide in-depth information on dozens of advanced topics. Both a reference and a tutorial, this book will quickly prove indispensable, whether you're a technical director, graphics programmer, modeler, animator, or hobbyist.

Explore the Power of RenderMan
* Use the entire range of geometric primitives supported by RenderMan.
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* Master every nuance of the Shading Language.
* Write detailed procedural shaders using texture, displacement, pattern generation, and custom reflection models.
* Write shaders for special effects relating to volumes, custom lighting, and non-photorealistic media.
* Use antialiasing to ensure that your shaders are free of artifacts.
* Minimize the expense of rendering scenes by optimizing input.

Other Features from Advanced RenderMan
* Offers expert advice and instruction applicable to any RenderMan-compliant renderer.
* Filled with technical illustrations and many full-color representations of effects supported by the RenderMan standard.
* Includes a chapter reviewing key math and computer graphics concepts.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #149113 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.71" h x 7.89" w x 9.70" l, 2.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional Presentations: Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs, Posters, Newsletters, Renderings, and More (Full Color Edition)

Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional Presentations: Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs, Posters, Newsletters, Renderings, and More (Full Color Edition)
by Alice Chen, Gang Chen
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About 80% of people have the desire to write a book at some point. With the advance of computer and printing technology, this dream can become a reality. One important factor of publishing a book is to create a professional looking book cover. This book uses book cover design as a case study to teach you how to use FREE Scribus software (instead of expensive professional software like InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXpress) to create professional presentations. With fewer words and many full color screenshots, we walk you step by step through the entire process. No prior experience is needed.

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7. Add the barcode by extracting the barcode from an EPS file and moving all the barcode elements together or by adding the barcode as a JPEG image file.
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• Amazon Sales Rank: #117699 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-01
• Original language: English
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• 70 pages

The RenderMan Shading Language Guide

The RenderMan Shading Language Guide
by Don" Rudy Cortes, Saty Raghavachary
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Discover how to achieve the stunning imagery and dazzling effects that wow audiences in animated and live action motion pictures. "The RenderMan Shading Language Guide" shows you how to master this powerful rendering program, used by filmmakers in conjunction with 2D and 3D painting, modeling, and animation software to transport audiences to faraway lands and awe them with fantastic creatures. A comprehensive guide to the RenderMan Shading Language (RSL), the book teaches experienced 3D animators and artists fundamentals through advanced RSL and image synthesis concepts. Beginning with an introduction to RSL, you'll learn about the shader writing process and how to set up a proper shader developing environment. After that you'll try your hand at some simple shading methods such as light and volume shaders. Once you have the basics down, you'll move on to more advanced shading skills including raytracing, global illumination, pattern anti-aliasing, and DSO shadeops. The book presents over 80 complete shaders and teaches good coding style and techniques. "The RenderMan Shading Language Guide" presents the skills you need to become proficient with RSL so that you can use them to create amazing special effects for use in movies, video games, and more.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #153693 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.58" h x 7.39" w x 9.10" l, 3.83 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 656 pages

Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Non-Photorealistic Rendering
by Bruce Gooch, Amy Gooch
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The ubiquity of computer-generated imagery around us, in movies, advertising or on the Internet is already being taken for granted and what impresses most people is the photorealistic quality of the images. Pictures, as we have often been told, are worth a thousand words and the information transported by an image can take many different forms. Many computer graphics researchers are exploring non-photorealistic rendering techniques as an alternative to realistic rendering. Defined by what it is not, non-photorealistic rendering brings art and science together, concentrating less on the process and more on the communication content of an image. Techniques that have long been used by artists can be applied to computer graphics to emphasize subtle attributes and to omit extraneous information. This book provides an overview of the published research on non-photorealistic rendering in order to categorize and distill the current research into a body of usable techniques. A summary of some of the algorithms as well as pseudo-code for producing some of the images is included.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #127022 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
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• 254 pages

Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques

Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques
by Alan Watt, M. Watt
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Dealing with state-of-the-art techniques in rendering and animation, this text provides a unique synthesis of advanced techniques not previously available in one coherent source.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1110185 in Books
• Published on: 1992-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 472 pages

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This week only, save 57% on the "Tom Cruise Blu-ray Collection," which includes "Collateral," "Days of Thunder," "Minority Report," "Top Gun," and "War of the Worlds."
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Includes the films Collateral, Days Of Thunder, Minority Report, Top Gun and War Of The Worlds.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #11 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2011-11-15
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ShaderX5: Advanced Rendering Techniques

ShaderX5: Advanced Rendering Techniques
by Wolfgang Engel
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Shader X5 Advanced Rendering Techniques is the newest volume in this cutting-edge, indispensable series for game and graphics programmers. This all new volume is packed with articles covering state-of-the-art shader techniques and tools written by programming professionals from around the world. These authors have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field, and each section is edited by an industry expert to ensure the highest quality and usefulness! The collection is broken into nine comprehensive sections. The geometry section covers improved N-Patches, how to generate dynamic wrinkles on animated meshes and much more. In the rendering section you'll discover how to generate a tangent space ordinate system in the pixel shader, how to setup an area light for games, and a variety of other techniques. Practical and useful multi-frustum shadow maps like Cascaded Shadow Maps and Queried Virtual Shadow maps are covered in the shadow section. The environmental techniques section features the beautiful volume particle approaches: Rain and Godrays under water. The global illumination section covers techniques that should work in next-gen games. The new mobile section lays out the basics of shader driven next-gen mobile development and some advanced effects tailored to the devices. Many shader-relevant engine design decisions are covered in the 3D Engine Design section. It also deals with post-processing effects, how to design shader plugins, and how to bind shader data. The Beyond Pixels and Triangles section covers a printf for the pixel shader, random number generator on the GPU, and many more.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #173770 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.69" h x 7.44" w x 9.18" l, 3.21 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 602 pages

Photorealism and Ray Tracing in C

Photorealism and Ray Tracing in C
by Christopher Watkins

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #123607 in Books
• Published on: 1992-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering

Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering
by Aaron W. Powell
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Each chapter develops a different aspect of a Blender technique. The book is essentially a step-by-step tutorial, which builds up your knowledge throughout. It has practical examples such as lighting a tricycle in open space, lighting a wine bottle on a table, and lighting a room that has a lamp as well as sunlight coming in through the window. These examples will show you how to implement the different Blender techniques in your work. If you are a Blender user and you want to improve the quality of your renders, this book is for you. You need to have experience in Blender and know your way around the Blender interface. You may be a professional or freelancer or hobbyist willing to increase the quality of your portfolio and interested in adding perfection to your renders.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #446536 in Books
• Published on: 2010-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 9.25" w x 7.52" l, .97 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Rendering with mental ray and 3ds Max (Autodesk Media and Entertainment Techniques)

Rendering with mental ray and 3ds Max (Autodesk Media and Entertainment Techniques)
Joep van der Steen (Author), Ted Boardman (Author)
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Create stunning renders of your 3ds Max models in mental ray with this concise guide. Learn all of the essential concepts such as indirect illumination, materials, render options, shaders, and lighting. Rendering with mental ray and 3ds Max, Second Edition is now revised to cover Autodesk Revit and special effects. The companion website includes all of the necessary project files from inside the book.

*Render beautiful scenes with 3ds Max and the powerful mental ray application
*Covers all aspects of rendering including materials, lighting, shaders, indirect illumination, and special effects
*Companion website includes tutorial files and sample files

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #72137 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-10-23
• Released on: 2009-10-23
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Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Photoshop

Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Photoshop
by M. Kathleen Colussy, Steve Greenberg
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This is the only step-by-step how-to guide of its kind to address all aspects of desired textile/surface design effects using Adobe PhotoShop. From a description of various ways to get results, to the best way for presenting work created in the textile/surface design industry, the combined talents of the two authors successfully addresses the education classroom issues as well as industry related challenges in a volume utilizing the most successful industry standard software on the market today. The authors present understanding the textile you will render, understanding fabric construction, intro to Adobe PhotoShop 7 tools & techniques, design basics with Adobe PhotoShop, understanding color and prints, contending with computers color matching issues, how-to render yarns, woven patterns and knits in Adobe PhotoShop, rendering stripes, check and plaids with Adobe PhotoShop, understanding prints and repeats, advanced rendering prints with Adobe PhotoShop, rendering fashion, PhotoShop and beyond, using plug-ins, proprietary and textile printers. For freelancers, apparel designers, and surface designers.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #124261 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-26
• Original language: English
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• 624 pages

Machine Rendering: The Art of Machine Rendering in the West, Japan and China (Fantasy Specials)

Machine Rendering: The Art of Machine Rendering in the West, Japan and China (Fantasy Specials)
by Cypi
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• Amazon Sales Rank: #355810 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05
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• 192 pages

The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics
by Steve Upstill
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This important book is designed as a tutorial for graphics programmers and provides a strong introduction to using RenderManTM, software developed by Pixar, the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, Ltd. It provides the reader with the information necessary to start generating impressive images that convincingly compete with photography. 0201508680B04062001

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #114142 in Books
• Published on: 1990-01-11
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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Practical Ray Tracing in C

Practical Ray Tracing in C
by Craig A. Lindley
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An accessible introduction to this technique and how it works, complete with sophisticated code examples that can be used in applications. Includes leading-edge methods for high speed ray tracing as well as detailed coverage of design procedures, generation, processing, storage and photographic output of ray traced images. The accompanying disk contains all code examples, gallery images plus two complete ray tracing programs--one of which is a high speed ray tracer.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #116028 in Books
• Published on: 1992-10-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 528 pages

ShaderX7: Advanced Rendering Techniques, 1st Edition

ShaderX7: Advanced Rendering Techniques, 1st Edition
Wolfgang Engel (Author)
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Welcome to ShaderX7:Advanced Rendering Techniques, the latest volume in the cuttingedge, indispensable series for game and graphics programmers.This all-new volume is packed with a collection of insightful techniques, innovative solutions to common problems, and practical tools and tricks that provide you with a complete shader programming toolbox. Every article was developed from the research and experiences of industry pros and edited by shader experts, resulting in unbiased coverage of all hardware and developer tools. ShaderX7 provides coverage of the vertex and pixel shader methods used in high-end graphics and game development.These state-of-the-art, ready-to-use solutions will help you meet your daily programming challenges and bring your graphics to a new level of realism.This collection offers time-saving solutions to help you become more efficient and productive, and is a must-have reference for all shader programmers.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #78142 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-03-12
• Released on: 2009-03-12
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