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.
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.
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.
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: 9780803260443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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.
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
Author: Seo-Young Chu
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.
William Gibson
Author: Tom Henthorne
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today's most widely read science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for general readers and for scholars interested in Gibson's oeuvre. In addition to providing a literary and cultural context for works ranging from Gibson's first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977), to his recent, bestselling novel, Zero History (2010), the companion offers commentary on Gibson's subjects, themes, and approaches. It also surveys existing scholarship on Gibson's work in an accessible way and provides an extensive bibliography to facilitate further study of William Gibson's writing, influence, and place in the history of science fiction and in literature as a whole.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today's most widely read science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for general readers and for scholars interested in Gibson's oeuvre. In addition to providing a literary and cultural context for works ranging from Gibson's first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977), to his recent, bestselling novel, Zero History (2010), the companion offers commentary on Gibson's subjects, themes, and approaches. It also surveys existing scholarship on Gibson's work in an accessible way and provides an extensive bibliography to facilitate further study of William Gibson's writing, influence, and place in the history of science fiction and in literature as a whole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The World of Physics 2nd Edition
Author: John Avison
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780174387336
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A clear and easy to follow textbook including material on forces, machines, motion, properties of matter, electronics and energy, problem-solving investigations and practice in experimental design.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780174387336
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A clear and easy to follow textbook including material on forces, machines, motion, properties of matter, electronics and energy, problem-solving investigations and practice in experimental design.