Watch a polar bear drawing come to life through a step by step process designed to make wildlife sketching easier and more ...

Bring the speed and elegance of a cheetah to your sketchbook with a step by step drawing process that focuses on accuracy and ...

Pad owners searching for a drawing app for beginners can often find themselves with an app that doesn’t really suit their ...

While SIMPLE IRAs are in some ways similar to their cousins, traditional and Roth IRAs, they also share some features with workplace retirement plans such as 401(k)s. Understanding your plan's rules ...

Lee Daniels is an Academy Award–nominated producer and director whose films include “Monster’s Ball,” “Precious,” “The Butler ...

An Approach to Productive and Maintainable Shader Creation. Creating shaders has always been an advanced step for most developers; many game developers have never created GLSL code from scratch. The ...

Abstract: Decomposing an image into the shading and reflectance layers remains challenging due to its severely under-constrained nature. We present an approach based on illumination decomposition that ...

In this chapter, an interactive system called AppGen is presented for modeling material appearance from a single example image. Given a texture image of a nearly planar surface lit with directional ...

Abstract: Shading poses a significant challenge to solar panels, leading to reduced power output and efficiency. This research focuses on implementing boost regulator and inverter technologies to ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...