Pyside GUI Application Development, Second Edition

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Elegantly-built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform.
This book will take you through everything you need to know to develop UI applications. You will learn about installing and building PySide in various major operating systems as well as the basics of GUI programming. The book will then move on to discuss event management, signals and slots, and the widgets and dialogs available with PySide. Database interaction and manipulation is also covered.
By the end of this book, you will be able to program GUI applications efficiently and master how to develop your own applications and how to run them across platforms.

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GRAPHIC & DESIGN, PACKT, Python, WEB DEVELOPMENT,

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Blender 3D Basics Beginner’s Guide

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Blender is by far the most popular open source graphics program available. It is a full featured 3D modeling, animation and games development tool used by millions all over the world – and it’s free! This book is for those looking for an entry into the world of 3D modeling and animation regardless of prior experience.
Blender 3D Basics is the entry level book for those without prior experience using 3D tools. It caters for those who may have downloaded Blender in the past but were frustrated by its lack of intuitiveness. Using simple steps it builds, chapter by chapter, into a full foundation in 3D modeling and animation.
Using Blender 3D Basics the reader will model a maritime scene complete with boats and water, then add materials, lighting and animation. The book demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D.

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3D Graphic, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, PACKT,

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3ds Max Speed Modeling for 3D Artists

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Production of 3D art is an exciting medium, but the task of modeling requires intense attention to detail, so speed and efficiency are vital. This book breaks down speed modeling workflow in 3ds Max into stages you can easily achieve, with a focus on hard surface modeling and methods you can apply to your own designs.
“3ds Max Speed Modeling for Games” will help level up your 3D modeling skills. It focuses on hard surface modeling, and shows the range of tools and techniques in 3ds Max 2013.
This book shows content creation methods aimed at 3ds Max modelers preparing to show their skill to the industry. The key feature of modeling that artists must exhibit is speediness while preserving technical accuracy. The author helps you follow set project guidelines while pushing creativity and outlines the entire workflow from concept development to exporting a game-ready model.
The book begins with introductions for new users to the interface and modeling tools, and progresses to topics aimed at users already familiar with 3ds Max, who want to improve their content creation process. You’ll also see ways 3ds Max content is used with other applications, like sculpting software and game editors, and learn features of speed modeling, efficient workflow, re-use of content, and tips on getting more done, more quickly.
By the end of this book you will have learned key topics in modeling, ready to face professional level work with elan.

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3D Graphic, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, PACKT,

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Blender 2.5 Lightning and Rendering

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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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GRAPHIC & DESIGN, PACKT,

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Understanding Industrial Design

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With the coming flood of connected products, many UX and interaction designers are looking into hardware design, a discipline largely unfamiliar to them. If you’re among those who want to blend digital and physical design concepts successfully, this practical book helps you explore seven long-standing principles of industrial design.
Two present and former design directors at IDEO, the international design and innovation firm, use real-world examples to describe industrial designs that are sensorial, simple, enduring, playful, thoughtful, sustainable, and beautiful. You’ll learn how to approach, frame, and evaluate your designs as they extend beyond the screen and into the physical world.

• Sensorial: create experiences that fully engage our human senses
• Simple: design simple products that provide overall clarity in relation to their purpose
• Enduring: build products that wear well and live on as classics
• Playful: use playful design to go beyond functionality and create emotional connections
• Thoughtful: observe people’s struggles and anticipate their needs
• Sustainable: design products that reduce environmental impact
• Beautiful: elevate the experience of everyday products through beauty

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GRAPHIC & DESIGN, O'Reilly,

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Interaction Design for 3D User Interfaces

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In this new era of computing, where the iPhone, iPad, Xbox Kinect, and similar devices have changed the way to interact with computers, many questions arised of how modern input devices can be used for a more intuitive user interaction. This book, Interaction Design for 3D User Interfaces, addressed this paradigm shift. The book looks at user interfaces with an input perspective. This book is divided in four parts (I) Theory of input devices and user interfaces  with an emphasis on multi-touch interaction; (II) Advanced topics that helps reduced noise on input devices; (III) Hands-on approach to allow the reader gain experience with some of the new devices mention on this book. (IV) A case study that shows how a complete solution, using speech as input. This book provides current state-of-the-art, which allows researchers, developers, and students to understand the direction on the field of input devices and user interaction

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3D Graphic, GRAPHIC & DESIGN,

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SPA Design and Architecture

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SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. Includes an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice.

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Emmit Scott, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, PROGRAMMING, SAP,

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Getting Started with Lumion 3D

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Lumion is software specially designed to be friendly and intuitive to help you bring life to your model. Import your model into Lumion and start changing the landscape, weather, and materials of your 3D model. With only a few clicks, you will have a beautiful image or video.
“Getting Started with Lumion 3D” will help you give life to your 3D model. After the first chapter, you will have what you need to start creating architectural visualizations in Lumion. The next chapters will help you consolidate this knowledge by introducing you to additional tools using step-by-step explanations. If you don’t have any experience with 3D modelling, this book will also help you to start modelling using SketchUp.
“Getting Started with Lumion 3D” helps you to take your first steps into the world of architectural visualization using Lumion. You will be guided along gradually using easy-to-follow, step-by-step examples, and more importantly, you won’t learn how to create the example in the book, but instead you will learn how to apply your new knowledge to your own scene.
You will start this book with a blank 3D model and finish with a beautiful image or an amazing video.

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3D Graphic, Ciro Cardoso, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Lumion 3D, PACKT,

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GPU Pro 6

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The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data that are useful for beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.
Exploring recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of real-time rendering, GPU Pro⁶: Advanced Rendering Techniques assembles a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. It incorporates contributions from more than 45 experts who cover the latest developments in graphics programming for games and movies.
The book covers advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX or OpenGL runtimes, as well as on any other runtime with any language available. It details the specific challenges involved in creating games across the most common consumer software platforms such as PCs, video consoles, and mobile devices.
The book includes coverage of geometry manipulation; rendering techniques, handheld devices programming, effects in image space, shadows, 3D engine design, graphics-related tools, and environmental effects. It also includes a dedicated section on general purpose GPU programming that covers CUDA, DirectCompute, and OpenCL examples.
In color throughout, GPU Pro⁶ presents ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can help solve many of your daily graphics programming challenges. Example programs with downloadable source code are also provided on the book’s CRC Press web page.

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GPU Pro, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Wolfgang Engel,

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Beginning Scribus

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Beginning Scribus is the book you wish you’d read when you downloaded Scribus for the first time. Scribus is an award-winning page-layout program used by newspaper designers, magazine designers and those who want to do proper page layout but not pay for an expensive solution. It is free and Open Source, providing a useful alternative for those who cannot afford or choose not to use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress.
Beginning Scribus provides you with the skills you will need in order to use this program productively. It demonstrates the techniques used by printers and publishers in order to create a range of layouts and effects, and it shows you how you can use these techniques to design everything from a flyer to a three-fold brochure. Using the latest Scribus release, Beginning Scribus takes you through the process of designing a magazine from start to finish and teaches you some of the tricks of professional page layout and design. The book also provides a definitive guide to desktop publishing using free, open source tools, such as GIMP for photo manipulation.

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Apress, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Robert White, Scribus,

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Fast Design, Slow Innovation

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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. Theses 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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Audio Photography, David M. Frohlich, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Springer,

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Digital Illustration Fundamentals

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This concise book covers concepts central to digital illustration using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Adobe Illustrator Professional Illustration package. The book builds on the foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what vector new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important.

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Apress, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Illustration, Wallace Jackson,

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WebGL Programming Guide

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Using WebGL®, you can create sophisticated interactive 3D graphics inside web browsers, without plug-ins. WebGL makes it possible to build a new generation of 3D web games, user interfaces, and information visualization solutions that will run on any standard web browser, and on PCs, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, or other devices. WebGL Programming Guide will help you get started quickly with interactive WebGL 3D programming, even if you have no prior knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, 3D graphics, mathematics, or OpenGL.
You’ll learn step-by-step, through realistic examples, building your skills as you move from simple to complex solutions for building visually appealing web pages and 3D applications with WebGL. Media, 3D graphics, and WebGL pioneers Dr. Kouichi Matsuda and Dr. Rodger Lea offer easy-to-understand tutorials on key aspects of WebGL, plus 100 downloadable sample programs, each demonstrating a specific WebGL topic.
You’ll move from basic techniques such as rendering, animating, and texturing triangles, all the way to advanced techniques such as fogging, shadowing, shader switching, and displaying 3D models generated by Blender or other authoring tools. This book won’t just teach you WebGL best practices, it will give you a library of code to jumpstart your own projects.

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3D Graphic, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Kouichi Matsuda, Rodger Lea, WebGL,

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Introduction to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2016

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Introduction to AutoCAD Plant 3D 2016 is a learn-by-doing manual focused on the basics of AutoCAD Plant 3D. The book helps you to learn the process of creating projects in AutoCAD Plant 3D rather than learning individual tools and commands. It consists of sixteen tutorials, which help you to complete a project successfully. The topics explained in the plant design process are:
• Creating Projects
• Creating and Editing P&IDs
• Managing Data
• Generating Reports
• Creating 3D Structures
• Adding Equipment
• Creating Piping
• Validate Drawings
• Creating Isometric Drawings
• Creating Orthographic Drawing
• Project Management, and
• Printing and Publishing Drawings

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3D MAX, CAD, GRAPHIC & DESIGN,

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Infusionsoft Cookbook

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Infusionsoft is an all-in-one software-as-a-service (SaaS) for small business sales and marketing. It empowers businesses with the same level of automation and personalization that were previously only available to large corporate enterprises with deep pockets. You can easily manage customer relationships, target communications in an automated manner, and sell their products/services online effectively.
Starting with recipes on the general setup and core competencies related to Infusionsoft, you will then learn about tools to enhance user experience. Further on, you’ll dive deep into different strategies to attract, sell, and wow your customers.
You’ll also explore different ways to manage administrative tasks and reporting, which are crucial to perform better workflow management. Later, you will become proficient in lead generation and lead management, referral management, report generation, and working with the campaign builder.
Finally, the book closes with unsupported ninja hacks to take your business strategies into the stratosphere!

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Cookbook, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Infusionsoft, MARKETING & SEO, PACKT, Paul Sokol,

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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python, Second Edition

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Geospatial Analysis is used in almost every field you can think of from medicine, to defense, to farming. This book will guide you gently into this exciting and complex field. It walks you through the building blocks of geospatial analysis and how to apply them to influence decision making using the latest Python software.
Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python, 2nd Edition uses the expressive and powerful Python 3 programming language to guide you through geographic information systems, remote sensing, topography, and more, while providing a framework for you to approach geospatial analysis effectively, but on your own terms. We start by giving you a little background on the field, and a survey of the techniques and technology used. We then split the field into its component specialty areas: GIS, remote sensing, elevation data, advanced modeling, and real-time data.
This book will teach you everything you need to know about, Geospatial Analysis from using a particular software package or API to using generic algorithms that can be applied. This book focuses on pure Python whenever possible to minimize compiling platform-dependent binaries, so that you don’t become bogged down in just getting ready to do analysis. This book will round out your technical library through handy recipes that will give you a good understanding of a field that supplements many a modern day human endeavors.

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Geospatial Analysis, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, Python, WEB DEVELOPMENT,

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