Computer graphics is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields in com• puter science. Some of the most sophisticated computer systems in use today are designed for the generation of graphics displays. We all know the value of a picture as an effective means for communication, and …
Computer graphics remains one of the most exciting and rapidly growing computer fields. Since the appearance of the first edition of this book, com• puter graphics has now become a common element in user interfaces, data visu• alization, television commercials, motion pictures, and many, many other appli• …
sophisticated interactive maps are increasingly used to explore information-guilding us through data landscapes to provide information and prompt insight and understanding. geovisualization is an emerging domain that draws upon disclipnes such as computer science, human-computer interaction design, cognitive sciences, graphical statisyics, data visu…
This book presents the subject of Compiler Design in a way that's understandable to a programmer, rather than a mathematician. My basic premise is that the best way to learn how to write a compiler is to look at one in depth; the best way to understand the theory is to build tools that…
As MA y be divined from its title, this book is about mining geology. Less evident, perhaps, is the fact that it seeks to cover a field rather different from that of texts entitled Mineral Deposits or Economic Geology. Those texts, concerned primarily with the origin and nature of mineral deposits and with descrip…
Soil mechanics originated several decades ago under the pressure of necessity. As the practical problems involving soils broadened in scope, the inadequacy of the scientific tools available for coping with them be• came increasingly apparent. Efforts to remedy the situation started almost simultaneously in the United States and…
Infrared and nonresonant Raman spectroscopies are based on the excitation of specific vibrational modes of the system under study. The frequency, intensity and width of the measured signals are highly sensitive to the local structure, composition and microstructure of the investigated samples, leading to a wide range of applications in mineralogy …
A direct means of indicating the presence of concealed mineralization would be the ultimate in exploration. In many ways the.induced-polarization (IP) technique comes close to achieving this goal. it has been remarkably successful in locating concealed bodies containing even small percentages of metallic-luster minerals.
I…
When I put pen to paper in the summer of 1982, uppermost in my mind was the need to provide new practitioners with an introduction to the theory and practice of thermoluminescence (TL) dating, particularly those without a strong background in physics. Assimilating the corpus of specialist papers which at present define the theory and practi…
During the last few decades coal chemistry and coal petrology have developed as special fields of research, of equal importance from both the scientific and practical viewpoints. Until the nineteen twenties coal chemists used to examine coal as a whole. However, after coal petrographers had. discovered tha…