A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning and versatile images. Animators will be able to master myriad modeling, rendering, and texturing procedures with advice from MK's best and brightest authors.

Divided into five parts (Introduction to Computer Animation and Technical Background, Motion Capture Techniques, Animating Substances, Alternate Methods, and Animating with MEL for MAYA), each one focusing on specific substances, tools, topics, and languages, this is a MUST-HAVE book for artists interested in proficiency with the top technology available today Whether you're a programmer developing new animation functionality or an animator trying to get the most out of your current animation software, Computer Animation Complete: will help you work more efficiently and achieve better results. For programmers, this book provides a solid theoretical orientation and extensive practical instruction information you can put to work in any development or customization project. For animators, it provides crystal-clear guidance on determining which of your concepts can be realized using commercially available products, which demand custom programming, and what development strategies are likely to bring you the greatest success.
Expert instruction from a variety of pace-setting computer graphics researchers.Provides in-depth coverage of established and emerging animation algorithms.For readers who lack a strong scientific background, introduces the necessary concepts from mathematics, biology, and physics.A variety of individual languages and substances are addressed, but addressed separately - enhancing your grasp of the field as a whole while providing you with the ability to identify and implement solutions by category.

Die Universitatsbibliothek in Basel ist im Besitz einer kleinen Papyrussammlung von 63 Papyri aus ptolemaischer, roemischer sowie spatantiker Zeit in uberwiegend griechischer, aber auch hieratischer, lateinischer, koptischer und mittelpersischer Sprache. Der Freiwillige Museumsverein der Stadt Basel erwarb sie im Jahre 1899 fur die Universitatsbibliothek und machte damit Basel zur einer der ersten Universitaten, die im Besitz einer Sammlung griechischer Papyri war. Im fruhen 20. Jahrhundert nahm sich zwar der an der Universitat Basel als Professor fur Rechtsgeschichte lehrende Ernst Rabel (Basel 1906-1910) der Sammlung an und bearbeitete einige ausgewahlte Texte. Doch er beliess es bei einer Auswahl von 26 Papyri, die er als "Papyrusurkunden der OEffentlichen Bibliothek der Universitat zu Basel" wahrend des 1. Weltkriegs im Jahre 1917 publizierte. Dieser Band bietet nun eine Reedition der bereits bekannten Stucke und eine Erstedition aller weiteren Basler Papyri.

This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world.

The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.

The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.

Matthias Muller makes a case for the particular role of the demand side in research on innovation. Based on a complex agent-based simulation model, he analyzes the versatile mutual relationships between consumers and producers within the innovation process. Instead of oversimplifying the demand side, the book aims to apply important aspects which too often are only applied to the supply side, e.g., the heterogeneity and bounded rationality of economic actors embedded in networks. The results offer a new perspective on the innovation process, proving that the demand side and consumers are important drivers of innovation, which must be included in future research for a full picture.

Algorithms are essential building blocks of computer applications. However, advancements in computer hardware, which render traditional computer models more and more unrealistic, and an ever increasing demand for efficient solution to actual real world problems have led to a rising gap between classical algorithm theory and algorithmics in practice. The emerging discipline of Algorithm Engineering aims at bridging this gap. Driven by concrete applications, Algorithm Engineering complements theory by the benefits of experimentation and puts equal emphasis on all aspects arising during a cyclic solution process ranging from realistic modeling, design, analysis, robust and efficient implementations to careful experiments. This tutorial - outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle in September 2006 - covers the essential aspects of this process in ten chapters on basic ideas, modeling and design issues, analysis of algorithms, realistic computer models, implementation aspects and algorithmic software libraries, selected case studies, as well as challenges in Algorithm Engineering. Both researchers and practitioners in the field will find it useful as a state-of-the-art survey.

Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Doeblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik. In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable; it also does important emotional, cultural, and political work. It is more available to amateurs and those without the cultural capital or the self-confidence to embrace more traditional literary forms, and thus gives voice to marginalized populations. Contested Selves investigates various forms of German-language life writing, including memoirs, interviews, letters, diaries, and graphic novels, shedding light on its democratic potential, on its ability to personalize history and historicize the personal. The contributors ask how the various authors construct and negotiate notions of the self relative to sociopolitical contexts, cultural traditions, genre expectations, and narrative norms. They also investigate the nexus of writing, memory, and experience, including the genre's truth claims vis-a-vis the pliability and unreliability of human memories. Finally, they explore ethical questions that arise from intimate life writing and from the representation of "vulnerable subjects" as well as from the interrelation of material body, embodied self, and narrative. All forms of life writing discussed in this volume are invested in a process of making meaning and in an exchange of experience that allows us to relate our lives to the lives of others.

Was sind die Bedingungen der Moeglichkeit, was sind die Grenzen der erfolgreichen Etablierung sozialpolitischer Innovationen in der sozialen Welt? Dieser Frage geht die Arbeit nach durch Analyse von Wissensstrukturen. Die Analytik des "Konflikts von Strukturen und Deutungsmustern" nutzt die Spannung zwischen Bourdieu und Oevermann. Als exemplarische Innovationen kommen die Idee eines Grundeinkommens und Evaluation als Instrument in der Sozialen Arbeit in den Forschungsfokus.

In den Mittelpunkt seiner auf den Kontext zeitkritischer und komplexer Projekte zugeschnittenen Theorie stellt Matthias Muller-Lindenberg folgende Fragen: Welche Ziele sollen verfolgt werden? Welches Mitarbeiterverhalten ist dem Erreichen dieser Ziele dienlich? Wie sollen die Verantwortlichen fuhren, um trotz unvermeidlicher Krisen und Pannen erfolgreich zu sein?

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand wahrend meiner Tatigkeit als wissenschaft- licher Mitarbeiter am Institut fUr Regelungstechnik der Technischen Universitat Braunschweig. Ich verdanke sie zunachst dem Umstand, daB mir seinerzeit ein Ernst-von-Siemens-Promotionsstipendium verliehen wurde. Mein besonderer Dank gilt natiirlich Herrn Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. W. Leon- hard, dem Leiter des Instituts fiir Regelungstechnik, der das gewiinschte For- schungsthema gern aufgriff und die Arbeit mit wachsendem Interesse fOrderte. Durch regelmiiBige Gelegenheiten zu Vorfiihrungen der Roboterexperimente vor Institutsgiisten schuf er eine kreative Atmosphiire, in der eine stetige Verbesse- rung der experimentellen Verwirklichungen moglich war und schlief31ich auch ein beeindruckender Grad an Hartung gegen "VorfUhreffekte" erreicht werden konnte. Fiir die Ubernahme der Mitberichterstattung danke ich Herrn Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Ulbrich yom Institut fUr Fertigungsaptomatisierung und Handhabungstechnik. Meinem ehemaligen Schreibtisch-Kollegen Dr.-Ing. G. Seeger, davor einmal Betreuer meiner Diplomarbeit, gilt in mehrfacher Hinsicht mein herzlicher Dank. Er erstellte anfangs die wissenschaftliche Formulierung des Forschungsthemas, gab mir in wichtigen Fragen immer verliif31iche Antworten und hinterlieB mir einen lei- stungsfahigen und funktionssicheren Robotersteuerungs-Laboraufbau. So war hier eine Weiterentwicklung auf hoher Stufe moglich. Zuletzt iibermittelte er mir seine umfangreichen Erfahrungen von der Formatierung seiner eigenen Dissertation.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Sport - Sport Sociology, grade: 1,0, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Sportwissenschaft), course: Sportcoaching, language: English, abstract: Abstract Objective: The aim of the present paper is to explain the construct of optimism in relation to coping strategies. Furthermore, we researched about the possibilities to improve situational optimism in a notional case study. Method: Transactional theory of stress and coping by Lazarus (1982) is the initial point of this paper. We explained appraisal and coping processes and pointed out, that optimism is a needful resource to overcome demanding situations. In the following notional case study, with a young wrestler we used the Life Orientation Test (Scheier & Carver, 1994) and the CAVE-Technique to analyze optimism status. Afterwards we generated hermeneutic ideas to improve the given situational optimism status. Results: A four stadium model, including reflection-, confirmation-, implementation- and re-evaluation phase was created to increase situational optimism. With this, it was possible to reach higher control abilities and optimism. Conclusions: Situational optimism is improvable with the help of the given model. Therefore it is important to re-appraise the outcome to develop adaptation and transformation. Probably it is possible to transfuse situational optimism to dispositional optimism.

Teil I: Future Corporate Systems.- 1. Synergetische Unternehmensfuhrung - Wie Mensch und Maschine gemeinsam zukunftsfahige Unternehmen gestalten koennen?- 2. Integrale Unternehmensfuhrung und Zukunftsfahigkeit.- 3. "Spharen Modell" der systemischen Fuhrung.- 4. Nachhaltige und effiziente Unternehmensfuhrung durch "Candorship" und "Lean-Agile" Organisationsausrichtung.- 5. Status Quo der digitalen Fuhrung.- 6. Macht, Vertrauen und Verstandigung in Veranderungsprozessen - Welche Rolle spielt laterale Fuhrung?- Teil II: Future Business Management.- 7. Digitalisierung - warum redet ploetzlich jeder uber Nullen und Einsen?- 8. Zukunftsfahige Kommunikationspolitik im Online-Marketing.- 9. Blockchain - Implementierung von Finanzierungsnetzwerken im Rahmen von Kryptoprojekten.- Teil III: Future Mindset & Skills.- 10. Zukunftsfahigkeit messen und gestalten mit dem Future Work Navigator.- 11. Virtual Reality.- Besser Lernen mit VR/AR-Anwendungen.- 12. Analog statt Digital! Die Anforderungen an den Supply-Chain-Manager der Zukunft.- 13. Innovationskultur als zukunftsfahige Unternehmenskultur.

Dieses Buch beinhaltet etwa 20 spannende und uberraschende mathematische Kurzgeschichten. Sie handeln von alltaglichen Phanomenen, amusanten historischen Anekdoten, sportlichen Tatsachen und verbluffenden innermathematischen Problemstellungen. Kommen Sie mit auf einen mathematischen Spaziergang der abseits bekannter Pfade einladt neue Entdeckungen zu machen. Das Buch regt auch zum vertiefenden Studium an oder gibt Ideen fur Unterricht und Schule. Jeder Artikel greift eine alltagliche oder schulnahe Beobachtung auf und fuhrt diese aus. Die Geschichten sind abwechslungsreich, informativ und unterhaltsam. Dabei runden die kleinen Comics die Geschichte auf amusante Weise ab.

Unternehmen mussen viele Ziele verfolgen, die im Widerstreit miteinander stehen: Sie sollen einerseits effizient produzieren, und andererseits innovative Losungen entwickeln. Sie sollen langfristige Strategien verfolgen und gleichzeitig gute Quartalszahlen vorweisen. Sie sollen zwar das Produktportfolio diversifizieren, sich aber parallel auf ihr Kerngeschaft konzentrieren. Fur Fuhrungskrafte stellt sich die Lage ahnlich dar: Sie sollen zwar Zeit- und Kostenvorgaben bindend einhalten, aber zugleich fur die Weiterentwicklung, Zufriendheit und Innovativitat ihrer Mitarbeiter sorgen. Sie sollen den Arbeitsfortschritt der Gefuhrten kontrollieren, ihnen jedoch auch Wahlfreiheit uber die Art und Weise der Arbeitserfullung geben.Bisweilen stellen sich die Zielkonflikte sogar als Dilemmata dar, wenn es namlich unmoglich erscheint allen widerstreitenden Ziele gerecht zu werden. Der vorliegende Band bietet Auswege aus dem Dilemma und konkrete Losungen in den Bereichen Strategie, Personal, Organisation und Controlling.