Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Overlapping Animations; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Fundamentals; CHAPTER 1 Introducing WPF; The Evolution of Windows Graphics; DirectX: The New Graphics Engine; Hardware Acceleration and WPF; WPF: A Higher-Level API; Resolution Independence; WPF Units; System DPI; Windows Vista; Windows 7 and Windows 8; Bitmap and Vector Graphics; The Architecture of WPF; The Class Hierarchy; System.Threading.DispatcherObject; System.Windows.DependencyObject…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Graphics, Titles and Rostrum Cameras; Graphics; Title Safe; Captions; Mattes; Choosing a Graphics Designer; The Process; A Few Design Principles; Creating Your Own Graphics; Opening Titles; Animation; Rostrum Camera; Illustrations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Free Transform distortionStep and repeat rotation; Image Warp: flag waving; Cloning in perspective; Special effects with cloning; Puppet Warp: animal tamer; Puppet Warp: get to grips; Cappuccino with sprinkles; Content-Aware Scaling; Content-Aware Fill 1; Content-Aware Fill 2; Content-Aware Moving 1; Content-Aware Moving 2; Choose your distortion; Straightening with Camera Raw; Wide-angle wonder; Easy panorama correction; Spin the bottle 1; Spin the bottle 2; The freelance artist; 3 Hiding and showing; Texture with layer modes; Layer masks 1: intersections; Layer masks 2: soft edges…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…HTML5 and CSS on the WebHTML5 Applications on Windows Runtime; Creating Windows 8 Style Applications with JavaScript; Summary; Chapter 7: Using XAML to Create Windows 8 Style User Interfaces; Describing the User Interface Using XAML; Using Namespaces; Understanding the Layout Management System; Reusable Resources in XAML; Basic Controls in Windows 8 Style Applications; Working with Data; Summary; Chapter 8: Working with XAML Controls; Using Animations in Your Application; Designing the Visual Look of a Control; Working with Complex Controls; Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Project overviewYour objectives; Prerequisites; The project setup; Level design 101 - planning; Exterior environment - terrain; Beautifying the environment - adding water, trees, and grass; Creating our player; Building the atmosphere; Creating a flashlight; Walking / flashlight bobbing animation; Summary; Challenges; Chapter 5: First Person Shooter Part 2 - Creating Interior Environments; Project overview; Your objectives; Project setup; Creating architecture overview; 3D modeling software; Constructing geometry with brushes; Modular tilesets; Importing assets; Creating tiles…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adding scripts to the player spriteAdding scripts to the Game Manager sprite; Tweaking the game; Mission accomplished; Hotshot challenges; Project 10: Sprites with Characters; Mission briefing; Building the robot wireframe; Coloring it metallic; Performing final adjustments; Animating; Parting with a few tips; Mission accomplished; Hotshot challenges; Appendix: The New Scratch Interface; Mission briefing; Website overview; Creating an account and logging in; The Scratch editor layout; Creating and importing sprites; New script block categories; Saving and loading projects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Associating a file extension with your application on WindowsChapter 2: Become a Delphi Language Ninja; Introduction; Fun with anonymous methods - using higher-order functions; Writing enumerable types; RTTI to the rescue - configuring your class at runtime; Duck typing using RTTI; Creating helpers for your classes; Checking strings with regular expressions; Chapter 3: Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey; Introduction; Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles; Creating a styled TListBox; Impressing your clients with animations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Applying Transformations to DrawingsWorking with Paths; Working with Stroke Styles; Working with Fill Styles; Filling Rectangular Content; Drawing Curves; Inserting Images into a Canvas; Using Gradients; Using Background Patterns; Scaling Canvas Objects; Using Canvas Transforms; Using Canvas Text; Applying Shadows; Working with Pixel Data; Implementing Canvas Security; Building an Application with HTML5 Canvas; Practical Extra: Full Page Glass Pane; Practical Extra: Timing Your Canvas Animation; Summary; CHAPTER 3 Working with Scalable Vector Graphics; Overview of SVG; History…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Your Journey to Garage Sale Millionaire Success is Much Closer than You ThinkChapter 2: To Buy or Not to Buy: The First Big Question Answered; What to Buy; Animation Production Cels; Antiques; Barbie Dolls; Baseball Cards; Beatles Memorabilia; Books (Antique or First Edition); Civil War Memorabilia; Coins; Comic Books (Pre-1970); Depression Glass; Disney Collectibles; Fine Art; Firearms (Antique); Military Memorabilia (Pre-World War II); Motorcycles (Pre-1960 Old Harley-Davidsons, Original Indians and Military); Muscle Cars (Pre-1971); Posters (Pre-1977, Movie and Music)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 18: Choosing a Search Space RepresentationChapter 19: Creating High-Order Navigation Meshes through Iterative Wavefront Edge Expansions; Chapter 20: Precomputed Pathfinding for Large and Detailed Worlds on MMO Servers; Chapter 21: Techniques for Formation Movement Using Steering Circles; Chapter 22: Collision Avoidance for Preplanned Locomotion; Chapter 23: Crowd Pathfinding and Steering Using Flow Field Tiles; Chapter 24: Efficient Crowd Simulation for Mobile Games; Chapter 25: Animation-Driven Locomotion with Locomotion Planning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Almost; Summary; Chapter 5 Core Animation and Smooth Scrolling…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating the Stock Table TemplateUpdating the Watchlist View; Step 8: Inline Form Editing; Creating the Contenteditable Directive; Updating the StkStockTable Template; Step 9: Formatting Currency; Creating the StkSignColor Directive; Updating the StockTable Template; Step 10: Animating Price Changes; Creating the StkSignFade Directive; Updating the StockTable Template; Step 11: Creating the Dashboard; Updating the Dashboard Controller; Updating the Dashboard View; Production Deployment; Conclusion; CHAPTER 2: INTELLIGENT WORKFLOW AND BUILD TOOLS; What Can Tooling Do for Me?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intriguing Locations and Entertaining SolutionsDefining a Style; Compartmentalizing Environments; Parallax; Animation; Challenges, Tasks, and Puzzles; What went wrong with the genre?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Advanced Styling; Adding a Touch of Ajax; Traffic Cop; Setting Up Some Content to Work With; Routing Requests with JavaScript; Simple Bells and Whistles; Progress Indicator; Setting the Page Title; Handling Long Titles; Automatic Scroll-to-Top; Hijacking Local Links Only; Roll Your Own Back Button; Adding an Icon to the Home Screen; What You've Learned; Chapter 4. Animation; With a Little Help from Our Friend; Sliding Home; Adding the Dates Panel; Adding the Date Panel…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Browsing themes with sample controlsPreparing the server; Browsing SharePoint Site collections; Creating a Silverlight LOB (Line-of-Business) RIA; Creating rich User eXperiences (UX); Building a Silverlight 4 RIA; Adding a Silverlight Web Part; Adding a Silverlight RIA as a shared document; Adding a Silverlight Web Part to display a Silverlight RIA; Working with many Silverlight Web Parts in a single page; Understanding client and server code; Summary; Chapter 5: Interacting with Rich Media and Animations; Bringing life to business applications and complex workflows…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Advanced Styling; Adding a Touch of Ajax; Traffic Cop; Setting Up Some Content to Work With; Routing Requests with JavaScript; Simple Bells and Whistles; Progress Indicator; Setting the Page Title; Handling Long Titles; Automatic Scroll-to-Top; Hijacking Local Links Only; Roll Your Own Back Button; Adding an Icon to the Home Screen; What You've Learned; Chapter 4. Animation; With a Little Help from Our Friend; Sliding Home; Adding the Dates Panel…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shooting ScriptConclusion; Exercises; PART 2 Solving Communication Problems with Visual Media; 5 Ads and PSAs: Copywriting for Visual Media; Copywriting versus Scriptwriting; Client Needs and Priorities; The 15-, 20-, and 30-Second Miniscripts; Visual Writing; Devices to Capture Audience Attention; More on Ads and PSAs; Humor; Animation; Shock; Suspense; Drama; Children; Serial Storytelling; Testimonial; Special Effects; Sexual Innuendo; Recruiting the Audience as a Character; Engaging the Audience as Visual Thinker; Patterns That Engage the Visual Cortex; Writing for Audio…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding How the Mind Watches a PresentationCreating the Presentation Partnership; Researching for Content; Discovering Stories That Connect with Your Audience; Using a Five-Point Plan to Construct Your Story; Putting the Show Together; Printing Your Show; Understanding the Back Channel; Chapter 8: Using Graphics to Increase the Value of Your Message; Creating the Best Design; Storytelling Using Visuals; Viewing the Big Picture; Looking at the Details; Using Single Visual Elements; Presenting Multiple Elements; Flash Animation; Choosing Frames as Information Containers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Picture ManagerDashboard; Canvas Plus Palette; Wizard; Settings Editor; Alternative Views; Many Workspaces; Multi-Level Help; Chapter 3: Getting Around: Navigation, Signposts, and Wayfinding; Staying Found; The Cost of Navigation; Navigational Models; Design Conventions for Websites; The Patterns; Clear Entry Points; Menu Page; Pyramid; Modal Panel; Deep-linked State; Escape Hatch; Fat Menus; Sitemap Footer; Sign-in Tools; Sequence Map; Breadcrumbs; Annotated Scrollbar; Animated Transition; Chapter 4: Organizing the Page: Layout of Page Elements; The Basics of Page Layout; The Patterns…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ethics and ProgrammersProgramming Decisions and Politics; Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal; You Decide; Public Broadcasting and Politics; Self-Censorship and Programming Decisions; Programmers and the Creative Team; You Decide; You Decide, Round 2; Buyer Enthusiasm and Ethical Behavior; Mediating and Ethics; Flight 93; Different Kinds of Ethical Questions Facing Programmers; You Decide; Reality and Ethics; You Decide; Short Takes; Animal Ethics; When Current Events Impact Programming Decisions; Host Actions; Borrowing, Copying, or Outright Stealing; You Decide…”