100 Best Computer Graphics Books of All Time

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book cover1

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

5.0
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic-–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usabil
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition book cover2

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition

Jesse Schell

4.8
Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100 plus sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game�s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, puzzle d
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives book cover3

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives

Peter H. Diamandis

4.8
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.

In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of
Theory of Fun for Game Design book cover4

Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

4.8
Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book packs more insight into what it means to design games for fun. Theory of Fun for Game Design challenges and inspires game designers as well as game enthusiasts looking for products and experiences that are truly fun and entertaining.

The book discusses the impact of designing in a multidimensional landscape, where computer science
Eating Animals book cover5

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

4.6
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Tr
Reading Comprehension Grade 1 for Improvement of Reading & Conveniently Used: 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Workbooks for 1st Graders to Combine Fun & Education Together book cover6

Reading Comprehension Grade 1 for Improvement of Reading & Conveniently Used: 1st Grade Reading Comprehension Workbooks for 1st Graders to Combine Fun & Education Together

Patrick N. Peerson

4.5
1st grade reading comprehension workbook and understanding is significant aspect associated with learning when it comes to having a grasp on a newer language & this is where our latest Reading Comprehension Grade 1 Book tends to help big time. Reading Comprehension books for 1st Graders is ideal for adding fun along with daily reading comprehension for 1st grade study drainage.

- Features:
- Readin
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play book cover7

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

4.5
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women's rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been--and continues to be-
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards book cover8

Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards

Yu-kai Chou

4.5
The new era of Gamification and Human-Focused Design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional Function-Focused Design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psychology have become proliferate. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment. Gamif
Minecraft: Guide Collection 4-Book Boxed Set (Updated): Survival (Updated), Creative (Updated), Redstone (Updated), Combat book cover9

Minecraft: Guide Collection 4-Book Boxed Set (Updated): Survival (Updated), Creative (Updated), Redstone (Updated), Combat

Mojang AB, The Official Minecraft Team

4.5

Newly updated, this is the ultimate gift for any Minecraft fan—a box set featuring definitive guides to four different aspects of the blockbuster videogame, packed with insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang.•Guide to Survival (Updated): Learn how to find resources, craft equipment, and protect yourself. Discover which biomes to avoid when starting out, how to build a mob-proof shelter,

Thinking With Type book cover10

Thinking With Type

Ellen Lupton

4.4
Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, linin
101 FUNNIEST MEMES: BOOK 161 book cover11

101 FUNNIEST MEMES: BOOK 161

Rodrigo B Santos

4.4

LAUGHS, CHAOS, AND ENDLESS MEMESCongratulations, internet explorer (or professional procrastinator who should probably be doing something else)! You’ve just discovered the ultimate treasure: 101 Funniest Memes – Book 161, That Will Break Your Screen and Your Serious Face! If you’ve ever laughed at something you shouldn’t have, sent the perfect meme at the perfect moment, or scrolled so long you fo

The Brand Gap book cover12

The Brand Gap

Marty Neumeier

4.4
THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a "charismatic brand"--a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you'll learn:

- the new definition of brand
- the five
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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

4.4
Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during t
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The Non-Designer's Design Book (Non Designer's Design Book)

Robin Williams

4.4
A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design everything from newsletters to advertisements with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Wi
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators book cover15

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Richard Williams

4.4
The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his fifty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between D
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Real-Time Rendering

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman

4.4
Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid theoret
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Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation

Ed Rosenthal

4.4
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Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2020 Release)

Andrew Faulkner and Conrad Chavez

4.3
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop and how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print
The Tempest book cover19

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

4.3
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art.

Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introd
Game Engine Architecture book cover20

Game Engine Architecture

Jason Gregory, Jeff Lander, Matt Whiting

4.3
This book covers both the theory and practice of game engine software development, bringing together complete coverage of a wide range of topics. The concepts and techniques described are the actual ones used by real game studios like Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog. The examples are often grounded in specific technologies, but the discussion extends way beyond any particular engine or API. The re
Minecraft: Guide to Ocean Survival book cover21

Minecraft: Guide to Ocean Survival

Mojang Ab

4.3

The definitive, fully illustrated guide to survival in Minecraft is now completely revamped with 100% new information for the latest version of the game. Learn how to survive and thrive in Minecraft’s most popular mode!Stock up your inventory, build a base and get ready to survive the night with Minecraft: Guide to Survival—the only book you’ll need to take your survival skills to the next level.D

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La Ciencia de la Oración

Yiye Avila

4.3
The greatest men of faith were men of prayer. Discover the power available to you through prayer in this bestselling book.
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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, John F. Hughes

4.3
By uniquely combining concepts and practical applications in computer graphics, four well-known authors provide here the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of the field. The important algorithms in 2D and 3D graphics are detailed for easy implementation, including a close look at the more subtle special cases. There is also a thorough presentation of the mathematical princi
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value book cover24

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value

Teresa Torres

4.3
Design for How People Learn book cover25

Design for How People Learn

Julie Dirksen

4.3
Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching, even when it's not in our job descriptions. Whether it's giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people. But if you've ever fallen asleep over a boring textbook, or fast-forwarded
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Digital Lighting & Rendering

Jeremy Birn

4.3
Crafting a perfect rendering in 3D software means nailing all the details. And no matter what software you use, your success in creating realistic-looking illumination, shadows and textures depends on your professional lighting and rendering techniques. In this lavishly illustrated new edition, Pixar's Jeremy Birn shows you how to:


Master Hollywood lighting techniques to produce professional result
Envisioning Information book cover27

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

4.3
The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether on the printed page or the computer screen. The Whole Earth Review called Envisioning Information a "passionate, elegant revelation."
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface book cover28

Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface

David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

4.2
The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far-reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications. For readers in either category, this classic introduction to the field provides a look deep into the computer. It demon
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Deep Learning with Python

François Chollet

4.2
Deep learning is applicable to a widening range of artificial intelligence problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition. It is the technology behind photo tagging systems at Facebook and Google, self-driving cars, speech recognition systems on your smartphone, and much more.

In particular, Deep
Minecraft: Guide to Redstone (Updated) book cover30

Minecraft: Guide to Redstone (Updated)

Mojang AB and The Official Minecraft Team

4.2
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 1)

Peter Shirle

4.2
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R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

Winston Chan

4.2
This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.

Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to ma
Minecraft: Bite Size-Builds (Over 20 Exciting Mini-Projects) book cover33

Minecraft: Bite Size-Builds (Over 20 Exciting Mini-Projects)

Mojang AB and The Official Minecraft Team

4.2
Minecraft: Amazing Bite-Size Builds (Over 20 Awesome Mini-Projects) book cover34

Minecraft: Amazing Bite-Size Builds (Over 20 Awesome Mini-Projects)

Mojang AB, The Official Minecraft Team

4.2

Learn how to design, build and customize 20 mini-projects in Minecraft, from firefighter planes and deep-sea submarines to hidden bunkers and arcade games. There’s even a superhero flying school! With detailed instructions, block hacks and build tips, this book will teach you new tricks and help you practice old skills as you create bite-size builds to impress your friends in Minecraft.

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C++17 - The Complete Guide: First Edition

Nicolai M. Josuttis

4.2
The book presents all the new language and library features of C++17, which is the next evolution in modern C++. Learn how this impacts day-to-day programming, to benefit in practice, to combine new features, and to avoid all new traps.
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GPU Pro 6: Advanced Rendering Techniques

Wolfgang Engel

4.2
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics book cover37

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Robbins

4.2
Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various t
Minecraft: Guide to Creative (Updated) book cover38

Minecraft: Guide to Creative (Updated)

Mojang AB and The Official Minecraft Team

4.2
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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

4.2
Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation.

A method known as literate programming combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education.
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Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorials

Anton Gerdela

4.2
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Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

Daniel Shiffman

4.2
Learning Processing, Second Edition, is a friendly start-up guide to Processing, a free, open-source alternative to expensive software and daunting programming languages. Requiring no previous experience, this book is for the true programming beginner. It teaches the basic building blocks of programming needed to create cutting-edge graphics applications including interactive art, live video proc
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Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition

Michael Abrash

4.2
-- Includes everything that master Abrash has ever written about optimization and real-time graphics.
-- Explains the intricacies of Intel CPU operation and other "black art" performance issues.
-- Treats both 2D and 3D graphics in great detail, with an emphasis on speed.
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The Computer Graphics Manual

David Salomon

4.2
The power of computer-generated images is everywhere. Computer graphics has pervaded our lives to such an extent that sometimes we don t even realize that an image we are watching is artificial. Comprehensive, accessible and engaging, The Computer Graphics Manual presents a broad overview of computer graphics, its history and its pioneers, and the hardware tools it employs. Covering a substantial
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AutoCAD Release 12 QuickStart

Nancy Fulton

4.2
An introduction to AutoCAD for users in any field, this book provides step-by-step instructions for creating and modifying AutoCAD drawings and designs.
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Contemporary Japanese Design

Sîan Evans

4.2
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Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics

Eric Lengyel

4.2
Sooner or later, all game programmers run into coding issues that require an understanding of mathematics or physics concepts such as collision detection, 3D vectors, transformations, game theory, or basic calculus. Unfortunately, most programmers frequently have a limited understanding of these essential mathematics and physics concepts. MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS FOR PROGRAMMERS, THIRD EDITION prov
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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, et al.

4.2
The three editions of "About Face" have shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design, bringing it from the research labs into every day lexicon and development. The fourth edition of this groundbreaking book will be no less game changing.

The 4th edition of "About Face "is the most significant revision yet, with a new unique design and 4-color interior, dedicated web site, and classroom a
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Book, The (Voices That Matter) book cover48

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Book, The (Voices That Matter)

Scott Kelby

4.2

Since Lightroom first launched 18 years ago, Scott Kelby’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book has been the world’s #1 top-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into dozens of different languages), and this latest version is a huge update where Scott shares all his newest techniques, insights, and invaluable tips using his award-winning, plain-English style that makes learning Lightroom ea

Minecraft Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) book cover49

Minecraft Volume 1 (Graphic Novel)

R. Sfé Monster and Sarah Graley

4.2
The first Graphic Novel in the world of Gaming Phenomenon Minecraft!

Tyler is your everyday kid whose life is changed when his family has to move from the town he's always known. Thankfully, Tyler has a strong group of friends forever linked in the world of Minecraft! Tyler, along with his friends Evan, Candace, Tobi, and Grace have been going on countless adventures together across the expanses of
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3D Printing Failures: 2020 Edition: How to Diagnose and Repair ALL Desktop 3D Printing Issues

Sean Aranda

4.2
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value book cover51

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

Melissa Perri

4.2
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Skulls & Anatomy: Copyright Free Vintage Illustrations for Artists & Designers

Kale James

4.2
Looking to level-up your art and impress your clients and peers?

Skulls & Anatomy, Copyright Free Vintage Illustrations for Artists & Designers is a collection of 180 high quality, digitised, anatomical drawings for use in personal or commercial creative projects. This is an essential resource to take your art and design to the next level and give you a competitive advantage over your peers.

Vault E
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Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2020 Release)

Brian Wood

4.1
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with t
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Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release)

Brian Wood

4.1
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CC (2019 release) choose Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons show users the key techniques for realizing your creative potential with Adobe Illustrator CC. Follo
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Graphics Gems

Andrew S. Glassner

4.1
Computer graphics is in many ways a science, but writing the programs that actually generate attractive images is still an art. The best programmers have a large toolbox of general techniques, nuggets of algorithms, and clever insights that they use on a daily basis to make their code faster, more reliable, more accurate, easier to debug, and a pleasure to use. Such toolboxes are compiled through
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Dinosaur Boo! The Deinonychus (The World of Dinosaur Roar! Book 2)

Jeanne Willis

4.1
Minecraft: Epic Bases book cover57

Minecraft: Epic Bases

Mojang AB

4.1
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People book cover58

Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

Aditya Bhargava

4.1
An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms you'll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. If you want to take a hard pass on Knuth's brilliant but impenetrable theories and the dense multi-page proofs you'll find in most textbooks, this is the book for you. This fully-illustrated and engaging guide makes
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Burn Your Turtleneck: A Guide to Succeeding as a Creative Professional

Michael Janda Janda

4.1
Autodesk Fusion 360 for Beginners, Step-by-Step: Design, Print, and Fix Real Parts: The CAD, 3D Modeling, and 3D Printing Guide for Makers, Hobbyists, and Students, Matched to Your Screen Today book cover60

Autodesk Fusion 360 for Beginners, Step-by-Step: Design, Print, and Fix Real Parts: The CAD, 3D Modeling, and 3D Printing Guide for Makers, Hobbyists, and Students, Matched to Your Screen Today

Hugo Trent

4.1

If your screen doesn't match the tutorial, you are not the problem.Every Fusion 360 tutorial you open starts on a screen you do not have. In January 2026 Autodesk changed the first thing you see, and most books and videos were made before that. Step one fails, and your first evening goes on hunting for a button instead of designing anything.This book is for the person who wants a real object at th

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Autodesk Inventor 2020 and Engineering Graphics

Randy H. Shih

4.1
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning book cover62

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Christopher M. Bishop

4.1
Pattern recognition has its origins in engineering, whereas machine learning grew out of computer science. However, these activities can be viewed as two facets of the same field, and together they have undergone substantial development over the past ten years. In particular, Bayesian methods have grown from a specialist niche to become mainstream, while graphical models have emerged as a general
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Serpent (NUMA Files, #1)

Clive Cussler

4.1
On the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket lies the battered remains of the Italian luxury liner, Andrea Doria. But few know that within its bowels rests a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity—a treasure that now holds the key to a puzzle that is costing people their lives. For Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA) exploration team, the killing begins when h
Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands book cover64

Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands

Marty Neumeier

4.1
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author's first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differentiation. The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough--today compan
MRI in Practice book cover65

MRI in Practice

Catherine Westbrook

4.1
MRI in Practice continues to be the number one reference book and study guide for the registry review examination for MRI offered by the American Registry for Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). This latest edition offers in-depth chapters covering all core areas, including: basic principles, image weighting and contrast, spin and gradient echo pulse sequences, spatial encoding, k-space, protocol opt
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Highlights of the European Furniture Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, William Rieder

4.1
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Polygon Mesh Processing

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt, Mark Pauly, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy

4.1
Geometry processing, or mesh processing, is a fast-growing area of research that uses concepts from applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering to design efficient algorithms for the acquisition, reconstruction, analysis, manipulation, simulation, and transmission of complex 3D models. Applications of geometry processing algorithms already cover a wide range of areas from multimedia, en
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Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Bruce Gooch, Amy Gooch

4.1
The ubiquity of computer-generated imagery around us, in movies, advertising or on the Internet is already being taken for granted and what impresses most people is the photorealistic quality of the images. Pictures, as we have often been told, are worth a thousand words and the information transported by an image can take many different forms. Many computer graphics researchers are exploring non-
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The Blog Startup: Proven Strategies to Launch Smart and Exponentially Grow Your Audience, Brand, and Income without Losing Your Sanity or Crying Bucketloads of Tears

Meera Kothand

4.1
LOGO Design Love, Annotated and Expanded Edition book cover70

LOGO Design Love, Annotated and Expanded Edition

David Airey

4.1
Completely updated and expanded, the second edition of David Airey's "Logo Design Love" contains more of just about everything that made the first edition so great: more case studies, more sketches, more logos, more tips for working with clients, more insider stories, and more practical information for getting the job and getting it done right.
In "Logo Design Love," David shows you how to develop
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Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

4.1
Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today's agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous lear
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The PBR Guide: A Handbook for Physically Based Rendering

Wes McDermott

4.1
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Graphics Gems IV

Paul Heckbert

4.1

Graphics Gems IV is the newest volume in the Graphics Gems series. All of the books in the series contain practical solutions for graphics problems using the latest techniques in the field. The books in this series have become essential, time saving tools
for many programmers. Volume IV is a collection of carefully crafted gems which are all new and innovative. All of the gems are immediately acces
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AAD Algorithms-Aided Design: Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper

Arturo Tedeschi

4.1
Laws of UX: Design Principles for Persuasive and Ethical Products book cover75

Laws of UX: Design Principles for Persuasive and Ethical Products

Jon Yablonski

4.1
Every designer today should learn the fundamentals of psychology. Instead of forcing users to conform to a product design or experience, designers need to learn how users behave and interact with various digital interfaces.

This guide provides some key principles from psychology to help you design more intuitive, human-centered products and experiences. Humans have an underlying blueprint for how w
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Ray Tracing: the Next Week (Ray Tracing Minibooks Book 2)

Peter Shirle

4.1
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Graphics Gems V

Alan W. Paeth

4.1
Graphics Gems V is the newest volume in The Graphics Gems Series. It is intended to provide the graphics community with a set of practical tools for implementing new ideas and techniques, and to offer working solutions to real programming problems. These tools are written by a wide variety of graphics programmers from industry, academia, and research. The books in the series have become essential,
Tinyml: Machine Learning with Tensorflow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers book cover78

Tinyml: Machine Learning with Tensorflow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers

Pete Warden

4.1
Neural networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The OK Google team, for example, has run machine learning models that are just 14 kilobytes in size--small enough to work on the digital signal processor in an Android phone. With this practical book, you'll learn about TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, a miniscule machine learning library that allows you to run machine learning algorithms on
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Ray Tracing from the Ground Up

Kevin Suffern

4.1
With the increase in computing speed and due to the high quality of the optical effects it achieves, ray tracing is becoming a popular choice for interactive and animated rendering. This book takes readers through the whole process of building a modern ray tracer from scratch in C++. All concepts and processes are explained in detail with the aid of hundreds of diagrams, ray-traced images, and sam
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Foundations of Geometric Algebra Computing

Dietmar Hildenbrand

4.1
The author defines Geometric Algebra Computing as the geometrically intuitive development of algorithms using geometric algebra with a focus on their efficient implementation, and the goal of this book is to lay the foundations for the widespread use of geometric algebra as a powerful, intuitive mathematical language for engineering applications in academia and industry. The related technology is
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This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World

Marc Stickdorn

4.1
Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street book cover82

Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street

Scott Patterson

4.0
A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them.
In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of wresting control of the market from the big exchange
101 FUNNIEST MEMES: BOOK 155 book cover83

101 FUNNIEST MEMES: BOOK 155

Rodrigo B Santos

4.0

LAUGHS, CHAOS, AND ENDLESS MEMESCongratulations, internet explorer (or professional procrastinator who should probably be doing something else)! You’ve just discovered the ultimate treasure: 101 Funniest Memes – Book 155, That Will Break Your Screen and Your Serious Face! If you’ve ever laughed at something you shouldn’t have, sent the perfect meme at the perfect moment, or scrolled so long you fo

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Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer: with Section-Elevation and Computer Graphics, Third Edition

Tony Bertauski

4.0
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