Bob Fisher

Handbook of all ACC (America's Cup Class) yachts and teams of the 28th -32th America's Cup and the associated Louis Vuitton Cups.High quality colour prints with a sharp resolution even of the smallest details make the book a treasury for each enthusiast's library. A price convenient Kindle edition invites hesitant readers to get a rough impression about the printed paperback. Narrated by America's Cup expert Bob Fisher, one of the worlds most famous yacht racing authors with excellent private contacts in the America's Cup scene. 90 pages including chapters on the genesis of the Cup 1851, a brief overview of the Deed of Gift, the development of the 12m class ending with the 27th AC 1988 (D.Conner's catamaran US-1 versus the big boat KZ-1), the birth of the ACC (originally called IACC-Class) by the San Diego Protocol 1988 and its end by the second hostile challenge, the 33rd AC 2010 ( by the "monster" multihulls USA 17 vs. Alinghi 5)Over 100 professional PC colour renderings, mainly side views of all the main, to a great part already missing yachts. From the mast top to the keel bulb - to the future memory, even of exotics like ITA-1, SLO-4, RUS-24, SUI-59 or GBR-78.Drawn by Karl Urtz after much diligent research in print publications or the last corner on the Internet.

This book focuseson the use of computer visionand graphics in architecture. It arose from a convergenceof several hot topics: 1. visualization of built environments for engineering, historical and other purposes, 2. virtual reconstruction of architecture from visual data of existing struc­ tures, whether via photogrammetric or range sensing techniques, and 3. augmentation of video data of architecture with useful information. The focus here is on architecture and howto present it, enhance it's abilities, make it easier to understand and make it accessibleto a larger public. Collective interest in this topic led to the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, whose papers are contained in this book. As editors, we were very pleased about how well the different papers chosen gavea nice focus to the topic and conference.It is clear that there are many different research approaches still active in this area - this makes it an exciting time. Wehope that this book captures that excitement and succeeds in bringing it to you.