Results 61 to 70 of about 3,727 (221)
Notes on mirror visions in 'Modesty Blaise' [PDF]
Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966) travels the cinematic distance between an opening shot of the seemingly contented sleeping face of its star Monica Vitti and an extreme close-up of her eponymous character’s over-stimulated, rapacious look directly at ...
Grant, Catherine
core
Anamorphosis: Between Perspective and Catoptrics
This essay is conceived in two parts: the first part deals with the perspectival and artistic work of the Minim Father Jean François Niceron (1613–1646). Niceron is the author of two volumes (the second published posthumously) that have become milestones concerning studies on perspective in the Seventeenth century – La perspective curieuse (Paris ...
De Rosa, Agostino, Bortot, Alessio
openaire +3 more sources
ABSTRACT Multispectral and multimodal unstained blood smear images are obtained and evaluated to offer computer‐assisted automated diagnostic evidence for malaria. However, these images suffer from uneven lighting, contrast variability, and local luminosity due to the acquisition system.
Solange Doumun OULAI +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology
Abstract Eschatological and apocalyptic patterns of thought are today prominent in environmental discourse, across multiple disciplines and media. Yet some theologians criticise these thought patterns for their role in perpetuating and even causing the environmental degradation we now witness. This article argues that the construal of salvation and the
Gunnar Gjermundsen
wiley +1 more source
Place in America: From Foreign Anamorphosis to Established Hyperreality
The article seeks to understand how the concept of place projected by the Europeans in America became a real utopia for its new inhabitants. Place in America has undergone an anamorphosis that transforms spatiotemporal reality into a postmodern ...
Hugo Capellà Miternique
doaj
BIKONFESSIONALNOST IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND MODERN PROBLEMS OF THE REGION
Changing tsivillizatsionnyh boundaries of Islamic and Christian (Orthodox) dominant in the North Cau- casus entails the formation of the region bikonfessionalnosti as special property geo-cultural space.
Svetlana Igorevna Andreyanova +1 more
doaj
Spatial Transfiguration: Anamorphic Mixed-Reality in the Virtual Reality Panorama [PDF]
Spatial illusion and immersion was achieved in Renaissance painting through the manipulation of linear perspective’s pictorial conventions and painterly technique.
Brisbin, Christopher
core +1 more source
Abstract Identifying highly channelized hydraulic conductivity fields and contaminant source parameters remains a challenging task, primarily due to the non‐Gaussian nature and high dimensionality of the parameter space, as well as the computational burden caused by repeatedly running forward numerical models.
Xun Zhang +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Perspective. Theories and experiments on the “veduta vincolata” (restricted sight) [PDF]
The modern perspective admits the free rotation of the eye situated in the projection centre (restricted sight) and with this, and with the motion of the eye, it is capable of simulating even the impression of curvature of the visual field that Panofsky ...
Migliari, Riccardo, Romor, Jessica
core +1 more source
Abstract Seawater intrusion (SI) poses a substantial threat to water security in coastal regions, where numerical models play a pivotal role in supporting groundwater management and protection. However, the inherent heterogeneity of coastal aquifers introduces significant uncertainties into SI predictions, potentially diminishing their effectiveness in
Chenglong Cao +4 more
wiley +1 more source

