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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sketching 1 -- Sketch Based Volumetric Clouds -- Applying Mathematical Sketching to Sketch-Based Physics Tutoring Software -- A Sketch-and-Grow Interface for Botanical Tree Modeling -- Animated Volume Texture Mapping for Complex Scene Generation and Editing -- Physics and Simulation -- A Novel Three-Dimensional Collaborative Online Platform for Bio-molecular Modeling -- The Effects of Finger-Walking in Place (FWIP) for Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Virtual Environments -- Interactive Design and Simulation of Net Sculptures -- A Cross-Platform Framework for Physics-Based Collaborative Augmented Reality -- Camera Planning 1 -- Accurately Measuring the Satisfaction of Visual Properties in Virtual Camera Control -- VEX-CMS: A Tool to Design Virtual Exhibitions and Walkthroughs That Integrates Automatic Camera Control Capabilities -- Automatic Speed Graph Generation for Predefined Camera Paths -- Sketching 2 -- Example-Based Automatic Font Generation -- Sketch-Based Interfaces: Exploiting Spatio-temporal Context for Automatic Stroke Grouping -- A Method for Reconstructing Sketched Polyhedral Shapes with Rounds and Fillets -- Pressure-Based 3D Curve Drawing -- Imaging -- An Interactive Design System for Water Flow Stains on Outdoor Images -- Automated Hedcut Illustration Using Isophotes -- Visual Analytics -- Articulate: A Semi-automated Model for Translating Natural Language Queries into Meaningful Visualizations -- Visual Analysis of Time-Motion in Basketball Games -- Event Line View: Interactive Visual Analysis of Irregular Time-Dependent Data -- Camera Planning 2 -- Automatic Blending of Multiple Perspective Views for Aesthetic Composition -- Focus and Context in Mixed Reality by Modulating First Order Salient Features -- An Interactive Interface for Lighting-by-Example -- Art -- Stroking a Cymbidium -- WAVO: An Interactive Ball to Express Light Waves with Wave Equation -- OverWatch: Real-Time Narrative Visuals from Live Performance -- Sticking Point -- Phantasmagoria: Composing Interactive Content for the humanaquarium -- Self Portraits with Mandelbrot Genetics -- Art 101: Learning to Draw through Sketch Recognition -- ColourVision—Controlling Light Patterns through Postures -- Interaction with a Virtual Character through Performance Based Animation…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Elastic analytics concepts -- Design with the endgame in mind -- Designing for scale -- Decouple key components -- Encapsulate analytics -- Decoupling with message queues -- Distributed computing -- Avoid containing analytics to one server -- When to use distributed and when to use one server -- Assuming that change is constant -- Leverage managed services -- Use Application Programming Interfaces (API) -- Cloud security and analytics -- Public/private keys -- Public versus private subnets -- Access restrictions -- Securing customer data -- The AWS overview -- AWS key concepts -- Regions -- Availability Zones -- Subnet -- Security groups -- AWS key core services -- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) -- Identity and Access Management (IAM) -- Elastic Compute (EC2) -- Simple Storage Service (S3) -- AWS key services for IoT analytics -- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) -- Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) -- AWS machine learning -- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) -- Amazon Redshift -- Microsoft Azure overview -- Azure Data Lake Store -- Azure Analysis Services -- HDInsight -- The R server option -- The ThingWorx overview -- ThingWorx Core -- ThingWorx Connection Services -- ThingWorx Edge -- ThingWorx concepts -- Thing templates -- Things -- Properties -- Services -- Events -- Thing shapes -- Data shapes -- Entities -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Creating an AWS Cloud Analytics Environment -- The AWS CloudFormation overview -- The AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) setup walk-through -- Creating a key pair for the NAT and bastion instances -- Creating an S3 bucket to store data -- Creating a VPC for IoT Analytics -- What is a NAT gateway? …”

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“…Go beyond connecting services to understand the unique challenges encountered in industrial environments by building Industrial IoT architectures using AWS Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Key Features Understand the key components of IoT Architecture and how it applies to Industry 4.0 Walk through extensive examples and solutions across multiple Industries Learn how to collect, process, store, and analyse Industrial IoT data Book Description When it comes to using the core and managed services available on AWS for making decisions about architectural environments for an enterprise, there are as many challenges as there are advantages. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Common architectureWhat it is and isn't good for; Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services; Too many clouds; A third way; Different types of cost; AWS - infrastructure on demand from Amazon; Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); Simple Storage Service (S3); Elastic MapReduce (EMR); What this book covers; A dual approach; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Hadoop Up and Running; Hadoop on a local Ubuntu host; Other operating systems; Time for action - checking the prerequisites; Setting up Hadoop; A note on versions; Time for action - downloading Hadoop; Time for action - setting up SSH…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fingers, faces, and other accessories -- Creating a library of poses -- The Asset Browser -- Creating a pose asset -- Practicing poses -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 7: Basic Character Animation -- Technical requirements -- Preparing Rain in a new scene -- A brief recap on linking Rain into a new project -- Using a pose asset -- Setting bone relationships for an animation -- Hiding bones -- Keying pose bones -- Blocking or roughing the animation -- Reviewing our key poses -- The Dope Sheet -- Introduction to the Dope Sheet -- Organizing the Dope Sheet -- Going further into animating this character -- Two more in-between poses -- In-between operators for posing -- Waving -- Polishing the animation -- Using the Graph Editor on bones -- Animating Rain's accessories -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 8: The Walk Cycle -- Technical requirements -- Preparing the walk cycle scene -- The timeline of a walk cycle -- Timeline markers -- Getting Rain ready to walk -- Moving forward on the Y axis -- Establishing the stride length -- Looping the animation -- Putting Rain on a treadmill -- Using a preview playback range -- Adding more periodic motion -- Torso movement -- Swaying from side to side -- The Action Editor -- More torso animation with sine waves -- Advanced footwork -- Rolling the foot -- Picking up the feet -- Correcting the motion of the legs -- Copying animation from the left foot to the right foot -- Finishing the walk cycle -- FK toes -- FK arms -- Final touches? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.2 Thou Shalt Remember That the Customer Is the One That Pays the Bills -- 8.3 Thou Shalt Never Stop Questioning Everything -- 8.4 Thou Shalt Never End the Improvement Process Because You Think that You Solved the Problem Early -- 8.5 Thou Shalt Always Be Available to Stakeholders, Responding Promptly to Inquiries -- 8.6 Thou Shalt Strive to Meet the Customer Demands Faster, Better, and Cheaper -- 8.7 Thou Shalt Recognize the Importance of the Entire Human Assets to the Process -- 8.8 Thou Shalt Ensure that Improvement Efforts Are Aligned with Corporate Missions and Strategy -- 9 Creating the Goal Statement -- 9.1 Goal Tree -- Part 3 Defining the Boundaries -- 10 Identification of the Supply Chain Partners -- 10.1 Stakeholder Analysis -- 10.2 Voice of the Customer -- 11 The Role of Cross-Functional Teams -- 11.1 Hawthorne Studies -- 11.2 Classical Workplace Teams -- 11.3 Empowered Workplace Teams -- 11.4 The Goal Tree -- 11.4.1 The Evaporating Cloud or Conflict Resolution -- 11.4.2 Mapping -- 11.4.3 Premortem -- 11.4.4 Solutions -- 11.4.5 Team Construction -- 12 Team Roles and Responsibilities -- 12.1 Senior Executive -- 12.2 Executive Committee -- 12.3 Champion (Project) -- 12.4 Process Owner -- 12.5 Master Black Belt -- 12.6 Black Belt -- 12.7 Green Belt -- 12.8 Yellow Belt -- 12.9 White Belt -- Part 4 Identification of the System Constraints -- 13 Establishing the Current Process State -- 13.1 Walk the Walk -- 13.2 Talk the Talk -- 13.3 Take the Gemba Walk -- 13.4 Gemba Walk Key Performance Indicators -- 13.5 The Next Step Upon Completion of the Gemba Walk -- 14 Determining the Future Process State -- 15 Determining the Gap Analysis -- 15.1 Steps to Complete the Gap Analysis -- Part 5 Elevate the System Constraints -- 16 Removing the Non-Value-Added Wastes -- 16.1 Definition of Waste -- 16.1.1 Non-Value-Added Waste #1: Overproduction…”