Virtual Light

Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307831183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. . . . Praise for Virtual Light “Both exhilarating and terrifying . . . Although considered the master of 'cyberpunk' science fiction, William Gibson is also one fine suspense writer.”—People “A stunner . . . A terrifically stylish burst of kick-butt imagination.”—Entertainment Weekly “Convincing . . . frightening . . . Virtual Light is written with a sense of craft, a sense of humor and a sense of the ultimate seriousness of the problems it explores.”—Chicago Tribune “In the emerging pop culture of the information age, Gibson is the brightest star.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune

Virtual Reality and Light Field Immersive Video Technologies for Real-World Applications

Author: Gauthier Lafruit
Publisher: IET
ISBN: 1785615785
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
Inspired by MPEG-I and JPEG-PLENO standardization activities, this book is for readers who want to understand 3D representations and multi-camera video processing for novel immersive media applications. The authors address new challenges that arise beyond compression-only, such as depth acquisition and 3D rendering.

The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections

Author: DR. ENG Jenna Ng
Publisher: MediaMatters
ISBN: 9789463723541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and the visibilities of its boundaries. As what is image becomes increasingly indistinguishable against the viewer's actual surroundings, this unsettling prompts re-examination about not only what is the screen, but also how the screen demarcates and what it stands for in relation to our understanding of our realities in, outside and against images. Through case studies drawn from three media technologies - Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections - this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed today, interrogating critical lines between art and life; virtuality and actuality; truth and lies. What we have today is not just the contestation of the real against illusion or the unreal, but the disappearance itself of difference and a gluttony of the unreal which both connect up to current politics of distorted truth values and corrupted terms of information. The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie is thus about not only where the image's borders and demarcations are established, but also the screen boundary as the instrumentation of today's intense virtualizations that do not tell the truth. In all this, a new imagination for images emerges, with a new space for cultures of presence and absence, definitions of object and representation, and understandings of dis- and re-placement - the post-screen.

Stage Lighting

Author: Richard E. Dunham
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317343948
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
The book’s organization follows a layered approach that builds on basic principles: Light as a Medium (Part 1), Tools of a Lighting Designer (Part 2), Design Fundamentals (Part 3), and Lighting Applications (Part 4). This presents students with a practical and logical sequence when learning basic concepts. The full spectrum of the lighting design process is presented in detail, giving students an example of how one might develop a lighting design from script analysis through concept and plot development, and all the way to an opening. This detailed process with a step-by-step design approach gives students a plan to work from, which they can later modify as they mature and gain confidence as designers. The text contains a more comprehensive discussion of basic technology, light as a physical phenomena, and methodology of designs than is found in most introductory texts, bridging the gap between introductory and advanced lighting courses. The text will appeal to theatrical designers who want to venture into areas of lighting like architectural or virtual lighting design, while at the same time gaining a solid grounding in the fundmentals of lighting design. Lighting Design will also benefit illuminating engineers who want to move away from mere computational approaches in lighting and on to explore techniques along the design approaches of theatrical lighting design. The final 9 chapters cover many specialty areas of lighting design, highlighting the unique and shared qualities that exist between the different aspects of these elements. Discussions involve traditional entertainment areas like theatre, as well as lesser known facets of the industry including film/video, landscape lighting, retail/museum lighting, virtual lighting, concert, spectacle performances, and architectural lighting. Models of design tasks demonstrate the actual use and development of plots/sections, schedules, photometrics tables, and cut sheets, rather than simply talking about what they are. This hands-on approach provides students with a firm understanding of how to actually use these tools and processes.

Postwestern Cultures

Author: Susan Kollin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803215762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Synthesizes topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West. This work examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J B Jackson's theories to vernacular or abandoned western landscapes.

Physically Based Rendering

Author: Matt Pharr
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0123750792
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1201

Book Description
This updated edition describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation. Through the ideas and software in this book, designers will learn to design and employ a full-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery. Includes a companion site complete with source code for the rendering system described in the book, with support for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Energy Work for the Everyday to Elite Athlete

Author: Cyndi Dale
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738770981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
Subtle Energy Techniques that Put You at the Top of Your Game You can be your own energy coach. You can boost recovery, optimize training, and improve athletic performance. World-renowned healer and author Cyndi Dale presents the ultimate book on applying energy practices to athletes and coaches of all ages and levels. Featuring more than fifty-five hands-on exercises, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about subtle energy and sports performance. All sports-related challenges are energetic in nature, and so the solutions also lie in the world of energy. Cyndi shares many tools from her energy medicine bag, including injury prevention and care, the keys to mechanics, athletic preparation, dealing with ups and downs, coaching, and more. Her techniques have helped an injured football player heal in half the average time, a downhill skier start winning competitions again, and a seventy-five-year-old woman prepare for a spiritual quest in Spain. They can help you, too. Includes forewords by Dr. Nitin Bhatnagar, holistic heart doctor and author, and Ryan Morris, coach and former MLB pitcher

William Gibson

Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description

Little Book Open - Securing a Narrow Clear Passage to the Future

Author: David Butterworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105743934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
This book is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing to those who are honest and want to live decent lives. It's a curse to the swindler, the liar, and the thief. In this book the truth is told about whom we are and what we can become. For this is a little book of open revelations; how the world was made, how life started, and who we are as a people. There's a separation coming, to some a new beginning to others a dead ending. The seven angels are now ready to blow their trumpets! Are you ready? Are you really? If you have any doubts get this book. This book may be your saving grace. Instead allow this book to be your guide into a wonderful new future. See a new future with affordable energy, a free economy, and a new distribution of wealth; the year of the Jubilee. It is my attempt to understand life and the universe; to see the truth without religion, traditions, or elitist intellectuals getting in the way. It contains a new view of the science of subspace singularities.

Rendering Techniques ’99

Author: Dani Lischinski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3709168090
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
This book contains the proceedings of the 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, which took place from the 21st to the 23rd of June, 1999, in Granada, Spain. Origi nally an outgrowth of the annual Eurographics meeting, the workshop was organized by a dedicated group of researchers who felt there was insufficient opportunity at Eu rographics and Siggraph to exchange ideas specifically on rendering. Over the past 9 years, the workshop has become renown as an international watershed for top quality work in this field, attracting between 50 and 100 attendees each year to share their latest research. This year we received a total of 63 submissions. Each paper was carefully reviewed by two of the 25 international programme committee members, as well as two external reviewers, selected by the co-chairs from a pool of 71 individuals. (The programme committee and external reviewers are listed following the contents pages.) In this new review process, all submissions and reviews were handled electronically, with the ex ception of videos submitted with a few of the papers. This streamlined the review process considerably, while reducing the costs and confusion associated with courier delivery of hundreds of papers.