Turning the Pages on an E-Book—Realistic Electronic Books
In this June 26th Google Tech Talk video titled Turning the Pages on an E-Book—Realistic Electronic Books, Veronica Liesaputra, PhD candidate at the University of Waikato, discusses her research on realistic e-books.
Here’s an excerpt from the presentation’s abstract:
In this talk, I will describe and demo a lightweight realistic book implementation that allows a document to be automatically presented with quick and easy-to-use animated page turning, while still providing readers with many advantages of electronic documents, such as hyperlinks and multimedia. I will also review computer graphics models for page-turning, from complex physical models based on the finite element method through 3D geometric models to simple "flatland" models involving reflection and rotation—which is what the demo uses.
Latest posts in E-Books
- E-Book Readers to Go: NCSU Libraries to Check Out Kindles and Sony Readers - April 23rd, 2008
- Two JISC Debates: E-Textbooks and the Library of the Future - April 15th, 2008
- Project Reports from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2008 Research in Information Technology Retreat - April 6th, 2008
Latest posts in Emerging Technologies
- Verizon Wants to Improve Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Performance with P4P - March 18th, 2008
- RAD Lab: Cloud Computing Made Easy - February 20th, 2008
- There's a 20% Chance That You Are a Digital Simulation Living in a Virtual World - August 14th, 2007
