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Hi I saw your message and thought you might be interested in 3DS Applied. The publisher has a big campaign on to get into the hands of instructors for use in classrooms. As you may or may not know: 3DS Applied is a sequence of eleven tutorials which illustrate 3DS used in a variety of applications: Corporate Logos, Mechanical Models, Forensics and Archtectural Animation…These tutorials are staged (going from easier to more complex) are designed for classroom and self training specifically, have tips and tricks incorporated. There are three laboratory chapters: Light, Color and Shadow (how lights, colors and shadows work – i.e. what happens if you mix a red light with a green light — what happens if you shine a red light on a blue object — what exactly ARE ray traced shadows…) Materials Laboratory – creating materials (bump, reflection, opacity, texture maps, transparency, self illumination, etc). Video Post – how to combine animations, composite images, etc. [I tell people that if they aren't using Video Post they may be wasting many hours of rendering time and missing out on some of the best 'tricks' 3DS has to offer.] There are three appendices, the most important of which discusses DXF input in to 3DS. They usually give one free copy to schools considering the book for use as curriculum. Call Crista Zull on (216) 891-3115. Cool. n.