Product Description: Over 30 striking lattice designs offer a splendid variety of bold images to color. Based on mathematical analysis of age-old geometric compositions, these computer-generated designs feature beautifully symmetric patterns of stars, circles, and polygons...read more

Product Description: Taking examples from across the natural and social sciences, this ambitious book examines the deep-seated assumptions that underpin the discovery of knowledge, and claims that all scientific methods are delusions in pursuit of theory...read more

Product Description: Ian Angell, dubbed ""the Angell of Doom"" by The (London) Times, lays out his manifesto for the New Barbarians who will lead the economic elite into a Brave New World over the next two decades. He rejects the long-held view of information technology as our benign liberator from mundane work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This 3.5 disk is designed to accompany the book "Advanced Graphics on VGA and XGA Cards Using Borland C++". Topics such as modelling and transformation of objects, hidden surface removal, smooth shading, shadows, transparency and refelections are covered.

This textbook addresses the range of issues that need to be considered when managing an information system. The author's aim is to encourage a more critical evaluation of computer-based information systems and to foster a more objective approach to the inherent advantages and disadvantages.

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Product Description: Describes tools and techniques of computer-generated graphics such as shading, shadows, and transparent surfaces. Includes many program listings and worked examples. The routines (over 100 in all) are written in modular form for ease of interchanging program functions...read more

Product Description: This excellent coverage of solid modelling and rendering offers the serious programmer a practical approach to programming in computer graphics using Fortran 77. All the necessary aspects of computer graphics are clearly presented, including explanations of matrix, voxels, oct, quad, and binary trees, along with discussions of the two main approaches to computer graphics: the polygonal facet approach and the alternative analytical method...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents a comprehensive introduction to computer graphics using BASIC on the IBM PC. Provides in-depth coverage of pixel block and character graphics, video games or low-resolution graphics, the construction of data graphs, two- and three-dimensional graphics, the set-up of complex objects, hidden line and surface algorithms, and perspective and stereoscopic views...read more