Baba`s Love, Millington Bill and Cristy

Автор: Millington, Ian, Funge, John
Название: Artificial Intelligence for Games
ISBN: 0123747317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780123747310
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI. In this book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. He describes numerous examples from real games and explores the underlying ideas through detailed case studies. He goes further to introduce many techniques little used by developers today. The book's associated web site contains a library of C++ source code and demonstration programs, and a complete commercial source code library of AI algorithms and techniques.<br><br>"Artificial Intelligence for Games - 2nd edition" will be highly useful to academics teaching courses on game AI, in that it includes exercises with each chapter. It will also include new and expanded coverage of the following: AI-oriented gameplay; Behavior driven AI; Casual games (puzzle games). <br><br>* The first comprehensive, professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games written by an engineer with extensive industry experience.<br>* Walks through the entire development process from beginning to end.<br>* Includes examples from over 100 real games, 10 in-depth case studies, and web site with sample code.

Автор: Millington, Ian
Название: Game physics engine development
ISBN: 1138403121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138403123
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Physics is really important to game programmers who need to know how to add physical realism to their games. In video games, the physics engine uses real-time physics to improve realism. This book aims to take readers through the process of building a complete game-ready physics engine from scratch.

Автор: Molina Crist, De Molina Cristobal
Название: Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas
ISBN: 029274398X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292743984
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city. Molina was an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced language skills allowed him to interview the older indigenous men of Cuzco who were among the last surviving eyewitnesses of the rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule. Thus, Molina's account preserves a crucial first-hand record of Inca religious beliefs and practices.

This volume is the first English translation of Molina's Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los incas since 1873 and includes the first authoritative scholarly commentary and notes. The work opens with several Inca creation myths and descriptions of the major gods and shrines (huacas). Molina then discusses the most important rituals that occurred in Cuzco during each month of the year, as well as rituals that were not tied to the ceremonial calendar, such as birth rituals, female initiation rites, and marriages. Molina also describes the Capacocha ritual, in which all the shrines of the empire were offered sacrifices, as well as the Taqui Ongoy, a millennial movement that spread across the Andes during the late 1560s in response to growing Spanish domination and accelerated violence against the so-called idolatrous religions of the Andean peoples.