Calculus for Computer Graphics / / John Vince

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910717426403321
• Autore: Vince John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 9783031281174; 9783031281167
• Edizione: [Third edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 pages)
• Disciplina: 006.60151
• Soggetti: Calculus; Computer graphics - Mathematics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Functions -- Limits and Derivatives -- Derivatives and Antiderivatives -- Higher Derivatives -- Partial Derivatives -- Integral Calculus -- Area Under a Graph -- Are Length and Parameterisation of Curves -- Surface Area -- Volume -- Vector-Valued Functions -- Vector Differential Operators -- Tangent and Normal Vectors -- Continuity -- Curvature -- Solving Differential Equations -- Conclusion. Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Students studying different branches of computer graphics need to be familiar with geometry, matrices, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curves and surfaces. And as computer graphics software becomes increasingly sophisticated, calculus is also being used to resolve its associated problems. In this 3rd edition, the author extends the scope of the original book to include vector differential operators and differential equations and draws upon his experience in teaching mathematics to undergraduates to make calculus appear no more challenging than any other branch of mathematics. He introduces the subject by examining how functions depend upon their independent variables, and then derives the appropriate mathematical underpinning and definitions. This gives rise to a function’s derivative and its antiderivative, or integral. Using the idea of limits, the reader is introduced to derivatives and integrals of many common functions. ; Other chapters address higher-order derivatives, partial derivatives, Jacobians, vector-based functions, single, double and triple integrals, with numerous worked examples and almost two hundred colour illustrations. This book complements the author’s other books on mathematics for computer graphics and assumes that the reader is familiar with everyday algebra, trigonometry, vectors and determinants. After studying this book, the reader should understand calculus and its application within the world of computer graphics, games and animation.

Cutaneous Hematopathology : Approach to the Diagnosis of Atypical Lymphoid-Hematopoietic Infiltrates in Skin / / edited by Hernani D. Cualing, Marshall E. Kadin, Mai P. Hoang, Michael B. Morgan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300348903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4939-0950-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (606 p.)
• Disciplina: 610; 616.07; 616.1507; 616.5
• Soggetti: Pathology; Dermatology; Diseases
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Patterns of Lymphohistiocytic Reaction in Skin: An Approach to Cutaneous Lymphohematopoieitic Infiltrate Using Histologic Patterns and Immunostains -- Functional Organization of the Skin as an Immune Response Organ: Skin, Immune Response and Useful Immunohistochemistry -- Role of Immunohistochemistry and ; Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization in Diagnosis -- Role Of Molecular Genetic and Flow Cytometry Analysis In Cutaneous Hematopathology- Including Application in Ten Disease Categories: Using Molecular and Immunophenotyping Technics in Evaluation of Hyperplasia, Atypical Infiltrates, and Frank Lymphomas -- Epidermotropic Reactions -- Neoplastic Epidermotropic Diseases -- Nodular B Lymphocyte Reactive Patterns: Reactive Nodular B-cell Pattern -- T-cell Pseudolymphoma Presenting in a Lichenoid and Nodular Pattern -- Neoplastic Nodular B-Cell Pattern -- Neoplastic Nodular T Cell Pattern: An Approach to Diagnosis of Neoplastic Nodular T-cell Lymphomas of Skin -- Subcutaneous Pattern: Subcutaneous Lymphoproliferative Disorders -- CD30+ Cutaneous Lymphoproliferative Disorders and Pseudolymphomas -- Lymphohistiocytic and Granulomatous Dermatitis: Differential Diagnosis of Granulomatous Dermatitis -- Cutaneous Pathology of Emergent and Tropical Infections: Skin, Infectious Pathogens, Emergent and Tropical Infections -- Cutaneous Lymphoid Infiltrates in Patients Receiving Biologic Modifiers -- Cutaneous Myelomonocytic Infiltrates -- Cutaneous Intravascular Conditions -- Non-Lymphoid Tumors Mimicking Lymphoma.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the nexus of manifestations of hematopathology and dermatopathology and provides a novel compartmental(epidermal, dermal, subcutaneous) -based framework to approach a diagnosis that considers both pseudolymphomatous and lymphomatous patterns. Through photographs, tables, and text, the book illustrates the range of non-neoplastic hematologic disorders and their neoplastic counterparts in skin: reactive patterns of infectious etiology and immune responses that simulate cutaneous lymphomas. The epidemiology, pathobiology, clinical and immuno-histopathologic manifestations in skin as well as the approach to diagnosis, selection and algorithmic interpretation of tests, and prognosis are also described. Written by experts in the field, Cutaneous Hematopathology: Approach to the Diagnosis of Atypical Lymphoid-Hematopoietic Infiltrates in Skin is a comprehensive resource that is of great value to surgical pathologists, hematopathologists, dermatopathologists, residents and fellows, community dermatologists, oncologists and infectious disease practitioners.