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The “Graphics Gems” books (I, II, III, IV, and V)  have long been a mainstay of anyone doing complex computer graphics and interactive programming.  Full of code snippets, algorithms, and clever ways of solving routine problems in new efficient ways, they are almost the holy tome of OpenGL and graphics programmers.  NVidia is now working to create a similar series of “core information” books for GPU programming and is soliciting articles and information for a “GPU Computing Gems”.

You are invited to contribute to GPU Computing Gems, a contribution-based book that will focus areas on practical techniques for GPU computing in some key focus areas:

· scientific simulation	· video and image processing including compression
· engineering simulation	· computer vision
· numerical algorithms	· signal processing and audio processing
· life sciences	· interactive physics simulation and AI for games and entertainment
· ray tracing and rendering	· parallel algorithms and data structures
· statistical modeling	· parallel programming and tools
· financial modeling	· miscellaneous topics including web-based computing, parallel programming tools, embedded robotics

Hit their site for all the details, but proposals are due at the end of this month, February 28th.

Call for Participation: GPU Computing Gems – NVIDIA. via InsideHPC.

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At the Edward Tufte Lecture Tour stop that Maitri Erwin attended, and kindly wrote up for us here, she received four of his most popular books on data visualization and infographics (included in the registration cost).  For your reference, the four books were:

For a full list of Edward Tufte’s texts, you can look at Edward Tufte Amazon Page..

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CGSociety’s publishing arm, Ballistic, is running a promotion with $10 shipping on any one book, and $2 shipping on any additional books.

Because we know how expensive shipping can be, for a limited time we’re offering $10 shipping on all titles at Ballistic Publishing worldwide. Order multiple books at once and save even more, with extra books shipping for $2 each.

This is a limited offer which ends on the 31st of August, 2009.

via CGTalk – $10 Shipping at Ballistic Publishing.

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I have been thinking about making a list of some of the most seminal information visualization papers. These are papers that have made an impact and can be widely seen in the media (print/web) or are being adopted in visualization software/systems such as VTK, Prefuse, Many Eyes  and so on. I may have missed out on a few papers, so please feel free to add any that you think are ‘must-reads’ for an infovis researcher.

Click through for the list…

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If you’re looking for some books on graphics & animation, then you might wanna check out Ballistic Publishing, who’s currently having a huge sale on alot of texts to make space for new titles!

Hi all

Here is your chance to get hold of some of our books with up to 50% off – selected titles.

In order to make room for all our new Ballistic titles we are clearing out the Warehouse with a back-list sale!


Titles include;

Machine Flesh

Machine Phase

Grand Space Opera

Vesage

Linda Bergkvist Poster Book

Check out the sale at Ballistic Publishing Website.

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