Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. Most experienced designers would quantify this work with the term research. By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers are able to …
Congratulations to Ken Perlin for his 1997 Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Board of Governors, given in recognition of the development of ""Turbulence"", Perlin Noise, a technique discussed in this book which is used to produce nat…
The past few years have seen a rapid growth in image processing and image communication technologies. New video services and multimedia applications are continuously being designed. Essential for all these applications are image and video compression techniques. The purpose of t…
