1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154724503321

Autore

Maguire Robert A.

Titolo

Exploring Gogol / / Robert A. Maguire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©1994

ISBN

0-8047-6532-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 409)

Collana

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Disciplina

891.7/3/3

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-390) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Three Notes to the Reader -- Major Events in Gogol's Life -- Works by Gogol Cited in the Text and Notes -- 1. Bounded Space -- 2. Displacement: "Old-World Landowners -- 3. Equilibrium as Place: "The Two Ivans" -- 4. Place Within: "Diary of a Madman -- 5. Place as Nature -- 6. Some Sources of Place -- 7. The Art of Seeing -- 8. Rome -- 9. Imitation: "The Portrait" -- 10. An Anxious Eye -- 11. From Eye to Word -- 12. The Word in Dead Souls -- 13. The Retrieval of the Past -- 14. Word Wielders -- 15. The Search for a Language of Self -- 16. The Failure of the Word -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad artistic and intellectual context, Russian and European, with special attention to German philosophy, the visual arts, and Orthodox Christian theology.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162855503321

Autore

House Donald <1945, >

Titolo

Foundations of physically based modeling and animation / / Donald H. House, Clemson University, School of Computing, Clemson, South Carolina, U.S.A., John C. Keyser, Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College St

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-37314-9

1-4822-3461-0

1-315-35581-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

777/.7

Soggetti

Computer animation

Physics in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Foundations -- section 2. Particle-based models -- section 3. Rigid bodies and constrained dynamics -- section 4. Fluid simulation.

Sommario/riassunto

Computer games, animation and modeling all have a common root in physics. It is only through the application of physics and mathematics that computer generated characters and objects can come to life. Physically Based Modeling and Animation goes behind the scenes of computer animation and details the mathematical, algorithmic, and numerical equations that make up the movement of virtual characters, as well as, the worlds they reside in. Dr. Donald House and Dr. John Keyser offer an approachable, hands-on view of the equations and programming that help guide the reader through the foundations of this field and help them in mastering everything they need to know in order to refine their creations.