"This booklet accompanies a software package called SimQuick. SimQuick is a freely-distributed Excel spreadsheet (with macros) for building simulation models of processes: waiting lines, supply chains, manufacturing facilities, and project scheduling. SimQuick is easy to learn, easy to use, and flexible in its modeling capability. Recently updated (2016), it has been used in industry and in educational settings since 2001. If you can open an Excel spreadsheet on your computer (PC or Mac), then you can immediately use SimQuick. This 3rd edition booklet presents the basics of process simulation by having the reader construct, run, and analyze simulations of realistic processes using SimQuick. It contains a wide variety of examples and exercises based on processes such as: a bank, a 1-800 call center, a fast food restaurant, a hospital emergency room, an airport security system, an inventory management system, and a software development project. The booklet supports either a quick introduction to process simulation (in as little as an hour or two of class time or independent reading), or a more in-depth treatment. To read more about this booklet and SimQuick, and to download a free copy of the SimQuick software, go toSimQuick.net. To read about the author, go to David-Hartvigsen.net
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"This book, the first in a series, dedicated to New Technologies for the Arts, is aimed at all digital arts students (PC and MAC users) who want to try video mapping for the first time. Thanks to a course of reading that alternates theoretic concepts and practical exercises - explaining from how to take a photograph to how to request permission, from the layer masks to 2D and 3D animation, up to the final projection and warping - the reader will be able to project a video mapping event.
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"This book&nbspis your&nbspconcise guide&nbspto Ansible, the simple way to automate apps and IT infrastructure. In less than 250 pages, this book takes you from knowing nothing about configuration management to&nbspunderstanding&nbsphow to use Ansible in a professional setting.You will learn how to create an Ansible playbook to automatically set up an environment, ready to install an open source project. You&#8217ll extract common tasks into roles that you can reuse across all your projects, and build your infrastructure on top of existing open source roles and modules that are available for you to use. You will learn to build your own modules to perform actions specific to your business. By the end you will create an entire cluster of virtualized machines, all of which have your applications and all their dependencies installed automatically. Finally, you'll test your Ansible playbooks.Ansible can do as much or as little as you want it to. Ansible: From Beginner to Pro will teach you the key skills you need to be an Ansible professional. You&#8217ll be writing roles and modules and creating entire environments without human intervention in no time at all &#8211 add it to your library today.What You Will LearnLearn why Ansible is so popular and how to download and install itCreate a playbook that automatically downloads and installs a popular open source projectUse open source roles to complete common tasks, and write your own specific to your businessExtend Ansible by writing your own modulesTest your infrastructure using Test Kitchen and ServerSpecWho This Book Is ForDevelopers that currently create development and production environments by hand. If you find yourself running apt-get install&nbspregularly, this book is for you. Ansible adds reproducibility and saves you time all at once. Ansible: From Beginner to Pro is great for any developer wanting to enhance their skillset and learn new tools.&nbsp
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"This book will teach you how you can protect yourself from most common hacking attacks -- by knowing how hacking actually works! After all, in order to prevent your system from being compromised, you need to stay a step ahead of any criminal hacker. You can do that by learning how to hack and how to do a counter-hack.Within this book are techniques and tools that are used by both criminal and ethical hackers &#8211 all the things that you will find here will show you how information security can be compromised and how you can identify an attack in a system that you are trying to protect. At the same time, you will also learn how you can minimise any damage in your system or stop an ongoing attack.Read this book for FREE on Kindle UnlimitedWith Hacking: Computer Hacking Beginners Guide&#8230, you'll learn everything you need to know to enter the secretive world of computer hacking. It provides a complete overview of hacking, cracking, and their effect on the world. You'll learn about the prerequisites for hacking, the various types of hackers, and the many kinds of hacking attacks:Active AttacksMasquerade AttacksReplay AttacksModification of MessagesSpoofing TechniquesWiFi HackingHacking ToolsYour First HackPassive AttacksDownload Hacking: Computer Hacking Beginners Guide How to Hack Wireless Network, Basic Security and Penetration Testing, Kali Linux, Your First Hack right away - This Amazing New Edition puts a wealth of knowledge at your disposal. You'll learn how to hack an email password, spoofing techniques, WiFi hacking, and tips for ethical hacking. You'll even learn how to make your first hack. Scroll Up And Start Enjoying This Amazing Deal Instantly
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"This book will teach you everything you need to know to create compelling graphics on Android. You&#8217ll learn the basics of OpenGL by building a simple game of air hockey, and along the way, you&#8217ll see how to initialize OpenGL and program the graphics pipeline using shaders. Each lesson builds upon the one before it, as you add colors, shading, 3D projections, touch interaction, and more. Then, you&#8217ll find out how to turn your idea into a live wallpaper that can run on the home screen. You&#8217ll learn about more advanced effects involving particles, lighting models, and the depth buffer. You&#8217ll understand what to look for when debugging your program, and what to watch out for when deploying to the market. OpenGL can be somewhat of a dark art to the uninitiated. As you read this book, you&#8217ll learn each new concept from first principles. You won&#8217t just learn about a feature you&#8217ll also understand how it works, and why it works the way it does. Everything you learn is forward-compatible with the just-released OpenGL ES 3, and you can even apply these techniques to other platforms, such as iOS or HTML5 WebGL. What You Need Preferably an Android phone or tablet that supports OpenGL ES 2. Top Five OpenGL ES Tips 1) Avoid expensive operations on the UI and rendering threads. To avoid frame rate stutters or the dreaded &#8220Application not responding&#8221 dialog from appearing, expensive operations should be run asynchronously in a background thread. This is especially important when it comes to the rendering thread, as rendering at 30 frames per second means that each frame has to complete in about 33 milliseconds to avoid frame stutters. Garbage collection is an expensive operation that happens non-deterministically and can cause rendering stalls, so to avoid this, you&#226&#8364&#8482ll also want to minimize object allocation during a frame to reduce pressure on the garbage collector. You may even see benefits to doing a manual GC at certain points in the application. 2) Do expensive texture and shader loads during intermissions. Some expensive operations need to be done on the rendering thread, such as texture loads and shader compilations. These operations can cause noticeable stuttering if they happen in the middle of rendering, so to avoid this, preload these resources at opportune times, such as when the game / application is loaded, or at the beginning of each level. 3) Take advantage of the libraries out there. There are many libraries out there that support OpenGL ES 2.0 development without boxing you into a framework or a closed-source middleware solution. Libgdx is one of these libraries, and by using a library like libgdx, you can more easily port your code to other platforms, as well as take advantage of the library&#8217s math classes and asset loading management. 4) Read the documentation The OpenGL specs and manuals are available for free from Khronos.org. Each GPU vendor also shares a wealth of free information on how to use their GPUs, and as you read the documentation, you&#8217ll find that they generally share a lot of advice in common, such as &quotminimize state switches&quot? and &quotavoid discard in a fragment shader.&quot? Reading these documents and specs will give you a lot more insight into how the GPUs work at a lower level, and will help you understand what the pitfalls are, and how to avoid premature pessimization when writing your OpenGL code. 5) Focus on what will impress the end user Sometimes it&#8217s easy to lose sight of the end goal, and to become focused on optimizing areas that won&#8217t make much of a difference to the end user. Does it matter if we get this shader to execute 2% faster? Or will we make much more of a visual impact by finding a better artist? Find out what the most important areas are, and then focus on improving those first.
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"This book will take you on a journey to understand the workflow normally used to create characters, from the modeling to the rendering stages using the tools of the last official release of Blender exclusively.This book helps you create a character mesh and sculpt features, using tools and techniques such as the Skin modifier and polygon merging. You will also get a detailed, step-by-step overview of how to rig and skin your character for animation, how to paint textures and create shaders, and how to perform rendering and compositing. With the help of this book, you will be making production-quality 3D models and characters quickly and efficiently, which will be ready to be added to your very own animated feature or game.
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