Light for Visual Artists is the first book to look at the way light can be used to create realistic and fantastical effects in a wide range of visual media. It is a valuable resource for animators, digital illustrators, painters, photographers, and artists working in any medium. Clearly written by a practicing illustrator, this book is essential reading for both students and p...(展开全部)

An introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts that also serves as a reference and text for Processing, an open-source programming language designed for creating images, animation, and interactivity. It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it's clear that there is a growing need for designers...(展开全部)

The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of literacy that enables them to create new media for the present, and to imagine future media that are beyond the capacities of current software tools. This book introduces this new literacy...(展开全部)

Product Description Learn how to create gorgeous and expressive imagery with the Processing programming language and environment. It's easy with this practical, hands-on book. Processing is an accessible language even to non-programmers, including artists, designers, researchers, hobbyists, or anyone else looking to create images, animation, and interactions. With Processing fo...(展开全部)

Reprints a noted landscape painter's early-twentieth-century work detailing the theory and technical aspects of perspective and presenting numerous practice exercises.

Book Description "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"?the title says it all. This book does something that other shader books don?t. It focuses solely on shaders and their creation. You?ll use ATI?s RenderMonkey platform, giving you an easy-to-use framework for shader development and allowing you to focus your energy on shader development rather than the development of fr...(展开全部)

Book Description "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"?the title says it all. This book does something that other shader books don?t. It focuses solely on shaders and their creation. You?ll use ATI?s RenderMonkey platform, giving you an easy-to-use framework for shader development and allowing you to focus your energy on shader development rather than the development of fr...(展开全部)

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audiences thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can dire...(展开全部)

Following the success of “Sleeves of Desire”, a second publication is now being devoted to the cover art of the label ECM, Edition of Contemporary Music, focusing above all on sleeve design from 1996 to the present. Since its founding in 1969, ECM has been dedicated primarily to jazz and contemporary classical music and is a leading international label in both these fields. ECM...(展开全部)