We present an extension to common realtime toon/cel-shading rendering techniques for treating reflective and transparent surfaces in a 3D toon-shading environment. Our approach takes advantage of multi texturing hardware and simple fragment and vertex shader programs. This allows a broad usage on todays gaming platforms.

the advent of new information technology has radically changed the end-user computing environment over the past decade. to enhance their management decision-making capability, many organizations have made significant investments in business intelligence (bi) systems. in order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to use suitable strategy to engage personnel. ...

the effect of business regulations on economic growth (a selection of developed and developing countries) mohammad-hossein hosseinzade bahreini assistant professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad mohammad ali falahi associate professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad fatemeh erfany jahanshahi m.sc. in economics abstract in this research, the relationship between business...

The technical steps for migration of a large-scale banking application towards an new and open application architecture are discussed. Business needs and derived from that technical requirements demand a new flexibility in application design. Flexible solutions can be better built on solid ground, so the importance of a solid architectural foundation like CORBA is emphasized. The development of...

In todays digitized and globalized economy, companies face increasing competitive pressures and unprecedented speed of change in business conditions. Considering limited IT budgets, process owners and IT departments need to decide how to divide their spending on efficiency-enhancing and flexibility-enhancing IT capabilities to optimally support their business processes. Turning from thinking of...

strategic performance evaluation of an organization within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important prerequisites of organizational improvement plans. in today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creation and knowledge worker evolvement. till now, variant models with different approache...