Barnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersWhen the galleys for this first novel arrived at our offices, several of us volunteered to read it-all with few expectations. Little did we know that we'd signed up for one hell of a ride. Diamond Dogs is that coveted work of fiction that you can't put down from the moment you read the first page. Alan Watt has written an enthralling story surrounding a hit-and-run accident and its subsequent cover-up. But what resonates even more than the unfolding of this suspenseful tale is the relationship between a father and son, and writing that is powerfully

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Alan Watt's 3D Computer Graphics is an easy-to-read introduction to the subject, written by a computer graphics expert. The book does not cover animation, but instead focuses on rendering three-dimensional objects. It covers the majority of the standard approaches and techniques in the field, including the Phong reflection model, b-splines, texture mapping, and affine transformations. In the appendix, a full vertex table for the Utah Teapot--a famous example in the field of computer graphics--gives you the opportunity to experiment with your own ideas on the same test bed used by research scie

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