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GI — 19. Jahrestagung II: Computergestützter Arbeitsplatz München, 18.–20. Oktober 1989 (Informatik-Fachberichte #223)
by M. PaulDie in den vergangenen Jahren außerordentlich gesteigerte Leistungsfähigkeit sowohl der Arbeitsplatzrechner als auch der Kommunikationstechnik für ihre Vernetzung erschließen sinnvolle Anwendungsmöglichkeiten für immer weitere und umfangreichere Arbeitsbereiche. Die 19. Jahrestagung der GI greift wichtige Fragen hierzu auf und setzt sich mit einer Fülle von Einzelthemen auseinander. Dabei wendet sie sich gleichermaßen an Entwickler, Anwender, Wissenschaftler und Studenten.
Graphik in Industrie und Technik (Beiträge zur Graphischen Datenverarbeitung)
by Jose Encarnacao Karl H. Ditze Herbert W. Kuhlmann K. ZuseMit diesem anläßlich des 125jährigen Firmenjubiläums von ARISTO herausgegebenen Buch wird dem Leser ein detaillierter Einblick in die umfangreichen Aufgaben der Praxis vermittelt, in denen die Graphische Datenverarbeitung erfolgreich ihren Einzug genommen hat. Dabei wird von den ersten Anfängen bis zu modernsten Techniken anhand von Anwendungsgebieten beispielhaft dargestellt, welche Möglichkeiten bestehen, und wie diese sich in der Praxis auswirken. Anhand von praktischen Tätigkeitsfeldern soll dieses Buch zeigen, wie sich die Technik entwickelt hat, wo sie heute steht, und was für die Zukunft zu erwarten ist. Es leistet damit einen Beitrag zum Technologieverständnis und soll helfen, Hemmungen und Vorbehalte abzubauen.
Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery (Monographs in Visual Communication)
by Roy HallIn a very broad sense the historical development of computer graphics can be considered in three phases, each a giant step down the road towards "realistic" computer generated images. The first, during the late 1960's and early 1970's, can perhaps be characterized as the "wire frame" era. Basically pictures were composed of lines. Considerable em phasis was placed on "real time" interactive manipulation of the model. As models became more complex and as raster technology developed, eliminating the hidden lines or hidden surfaces from the image became critical for visual understanding. This requirement resulted in the second phase of computer graphics, the "hidden surface" era, that developed during the 1970's and early 1980's. The names associated with hidden surface algorithms read like a who's who of computer graphics. The cul mination of the hidden surface era and the beginning of the current and third era in computer graphics, the "rendering" era, was Turner Whitted's incorporation of a global illumination model into the ray trac ing algorithm. Now the goal was not just to generate an image, but to generate a realistic appearing image.
The Illusion of Reality
by Howard L. ResnikoffThe Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation in 1979-1981 as a partial response to the need for a textbook for students, both in and out of government, that would pro vide a comprehensive view of information science as a fundamental constitu ent of other more established disciplines with a unity and coherence distinct from computer science, cognitive science, and library science although it is related to all of them. Driven by the advances of information technology, the perception of information science has progressed rapidly: today it seems well understood that information processing biological organisms and informa tion processing electronic machines have something basic in common that may subsume the theory of computation, as well as fundamental parts of physics. This book is primarily intended as a text for an advanced undergraduate or a graduate introduction to information science. The multidisciplinary nature of the subject has naturally led to the inclusion of a considerable amount of background material in various fields. The reader is likely to fmd the treat ment relatively oversimplified in fields with which he is familiar and, perhaps, somewhat heavier sailing in less familiar waters. The theme of common principles among seemingly unrelated applications provides the connective tissue for the diverse topics covered in the text and, I hope, justifies the variable level of presentation. Some of the material appears here for the first time.
An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers (Routledge Revivals)
by Basil HunnisettFirst published in 1989, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers contains more than 600 entries and an extensive plate section, providing examples of work referenced in the text and adding a clear chronological dimension to the subject. The book makes use of an array of surviving accounts and correspondence of engravers and publishers and adopts a comprehensive and systematic approach to identifying different types and variants of steel engravings over time. Equipped with a detailed introduction to the history of steel engravings, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers will be of great use to those interested in illustration, graphic art, Victorian literature, and the history of printing.
An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers (Routledge Revivals)
by Basil HunnisettFirst published in 1989, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers contains more than 600 entries and an extensive plate section, providing examples of work referenced in the text and adding a clear chronological dimension to the subject. The book makes use of an array of surviving accounts and correspondence of engravers and publishers and adopts a comprehensive and systematic approach to identifying different types and variants of steel engravings over time. Equipped with a detailed introduction to the history of steel engravings, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers will be of great use to those interested in illustration, graphic art, Victorian literature, and the history of printing.
Improvisation in Drama (New Directions in Theatre)
by Anthony Frost Ralph YarrowImprovisation is fundamental to all drama as the skill of using various resources to suggest an idea, a situation, a character, perhaps even a text, but it is also a technique for rehearsal of social statement and much more. Following an introduction to the multiple notions of improvisation, the authors examine four main areas of contemporary improvisation work, offer case studies of major practitioners and draw conclusions regarding the theoretical implications of the earlier discussions to move toward an understanding of the creation of 'meaning' in action. This book offers thoughtful reading for actors, students of drama, academics, scholars and general readers.
In the Inmost Hour of the Soul (Vox Humana)
by Marina Tsvetayeva Nina Kossman" .. .1 have no love for life as such; for me it begins to have significance, i.e., to acquire meaning and weight, only when it is transformed, i.e., in art. If I were taken beyond the sea into paradise-and forbidden to write, I would refuse the sea and paradise. I don't need life as a thing in itself." This, written by Tsvetayeva in a letter to her Czech friend, Teskova, in 1925, could stand as an inscription to her life. Marina Tsvetayeva was born in Moscow on September 26, 1892. Her fathel~ a well-known art historian and philolo gist, founded the Moscow Museum of the Fine Arts, now known as the Pushkin Museum; her mother, a pianist, died young, in 1906. Marina began writing poetry at the age of six. Her first book, Evening Album, contained poems she had writ ten before she turned seventeen, and enjoyed reviews by the poet, painter, and mentor of young writers, Max Voloshin, the poet Gumilyov, and the Symbolist critic and poet, Valerii Bryusov. Voloshin and Gumilyov welcomed the seventeen year-old poet as their equal; Bryusov was more critical of her, though he too, in his own belligerent way, acknowledged her talent.
Industrial and Business Space Development: Implementation and urban renewal
by C. Marsh H. Martinos A. McIntosh S. MorelyAn insight into the changing nature of the industrial and business space property market and how business space development schemes can be initiated and implemented to revitalise urban areas.
Industrial and Business Space Development: Implementation and urban renewal
by C. Marsh H. Martinos A. McIntosh S. MorelyAn insight into the changing nature of the industrial and business space property market and how business space development schemes can be initiated and implemented to revitalise urban areas.
An Introduction to Ray Tracing (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
by Andrew S. GlassnerThe creation of ever more realistic 3-D images is central to the development of computer graphics. The ray tracing technique has become one of the most popular and powerful means by which photo-realistic images can now be created. The simplicity, elegance and ease of implementation makes ray tracing an essential part of understanding and exploiting state-of-the-art computer graphics.An Introduction to Ray Tracing develops from fundamental principles to advanced applications, providing "how-to" procedures as well as a detailed understanding of the scientific foundations of ray tracing. It is also richly illustrated with four-color and black-and-white plates. This is a book which will be welcomed by all concerned with modern computer graphics, image processing, and computer-aided design.Provides practical "how-to" informationContains high quality color plates of images created using ray tracing techniquesProgresses from a basic understanding to the advanced science and application of ray tracing
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany
by Patrice PetroPatrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question. Interdisciplinary in her approach, Petro interweaves archival research with recent theoretical debates to offer not merely another view of the Weimar cinema but also another way of looking at Weimar film culture. Women's modernity, she suggests, was not the same as men's modernism, and the image of the city street in film and photojournalism reveals how women responded differently from men to the political, economic, and psychic upheaval of their times.
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany
by Patrice PetroPatrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question. Interdisciplinary in her approach, Petro interweaves archival research with recent theoretical debates to offer not merely another view of the Weimar cinema but also another way of looking at Weimar film culture. Women's modernity, she suggests, was not the same as men's modernism, and the image of the city street in film and photojournalism reveals how women responded differently from men to the political, economic, and psychic upheaval of their times.
Konturorientierte Verfahren in der digitalen Bildverarbeitung
by Henning Bässmann Philipp W. Besslich
Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung in Bauunternehmungen (Leitfaden des Baubetriebs und der Bauwirtschaft)
by Rolf F. ToffelDie Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung in Bauunternehmungen hat den Zweck, den betrieblichen Prozeß des Absatzes und der Erstellung von Bauleistungen zu planen und zu kontrollieren. Die drei typischen Merkmale der Bauunternehmung - die Einzelfertigung, die Auftragsfertigung und die Baustellenfertigung - machen eine typische Ausgestal tung der Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung in Bauunternehmungen erforderlich, in der nicht nur die Unternehmung insgesamt, sondern vor allem auch die einzelnen Bauobjekte mit Hilfe der Rechengrößen Kosten und Leistungen geplant und kontrolliert werden. Entsprechend wird hier hauptsächlich unterteilt in eine Kosten- und Leistungs rechnung für Einzelobjekte und eine solche für den Gesamtbetrieb. Diese Darstellung der Planung und Kontrolle der Kosten und Leistungen für Einzelobjekte und für den Gesamtbetrieb bedient sich der eingeführten und bewährten Begriffe des allgemeinen betriebswirtschaftlichen Rechnungswesens, soweit es möglich ist, und spezifischer baubetriebswirtschaftlicher Begriffe, wo es die Besonderheit des Baubetriebes nötig erscheinen läßt. Um dem Leser das Rechnen mit Kosten und Leistungen systematisch und auch für die praktische Anwendung gleichermaßen anschaulich nahe zu bringen, wird die Kosten- und Leistungsberechnung für Einzelobjekte und die für den Gesamt betrieb an jeweils einem Beispiel durchgängig verifiziert, und zwar ohne wie auch mit Einsatz der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung.
Künstlerhäuser: Eine Architekturgeschichte des Privaten
by Hans-Peter Schwarzseape locus ingenio stimolos admovet. Petrarca Der Genius Loci, jene in den letzten Jahren durch Architekturkritik und Architekturtheorie so euphemistisch beschriebene "Besonderheit des Ortes", aus dessen Charakteristik eine sprachlos gewordene Architektur sich die Riickgewinnung verlorengegangener Anmutungsqualitaten er hofft, ist nirgendwo so deutlich spiirbar wie dort, wo durch gesellschaft liche Konvention geadelte Genies ihr kiinstlerisches, literarisches oder musikalisches Tagwerk verrichteten. Das "Vittoriale" Gabriele D' Annunzios ist so ein Wallfahrtsort fiir die Nachgeborenen, oder auch Richard Wagners "Wahnfried" und die Goethe-Hauser in Weimar oder Frankfurt, wobei es niemanden anficht, daB der hier besonders verehrte Olympier "sein" Geburtshaus erst im reifen Mannesalter und allenfalls besuchsweise kennengelernt haben diirfte. Aber die Authentizitat zu hinterfragen, eriibrigt sich fiir den Kultur touristen. Ihm geniigt es, topographische Fixpunkte zu haben, an denen das Stigma des Genialen zumindest in der Imagination wiederentdeckt werden kann. Kiinstlerhauser blieben zumeist Domane romantischer oder lokalpatriotischer Freizeitforscher, denen es weniger darauf an kam, das historisch exakte als das jeweils zeitgenossisch vermittelte Bild yom Kiinstler zu rekonstruieren. Dabei ist eine historische Auseinandersetzung mit den Hausern, die Kiinstler und Architekten fiir sich selbst entworfen und gebaut haben, mit deren Hilfe sie sich in der Gesellschaft eingerichtet oder von ihr abgegrenzt haben, gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht von Bedeutung. Zum einen konnen wir davon ausgehen, daB gerade die professionellen "Astheten" bei der Einrichtung ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung beson ders genau und besonders intensiv die Mittel benutzt haben, die Archi tektur, Skulptur und Malerei entwickelt haben, urn Ideen auszudriicken, urn aussagekraftig zu werden, urn gesellschaftliche Anspriiche zu stellen.
Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice
by Brian W. Blaesser Clyde W. Forrest Douglas W. Kmiec Daniel R. Mandelker Alan C. Weinstein Norman WilliamsThis practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discusses points of dissent. It includes detailed summaries of more than fifty U.S. Supreme Court cases affecting land-use planning, along with a comprehensive table of contents, a cross-referenced index, three matricies that relate sections of the book to one another, and a summary of constitutional principles that relates them to land-use planning techniques. All of these features make it easy to locate key constitutional principles quickly. This book is the result of a 1987 symposium that brought together two dozen leading practitioners and scholars in the fields of planning and law.
Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice
by Brian W. Blaesser Alan C. WeinsteinThis practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discusses points of dissent. It includes detailed summaries of more than fifty U.S. Supreme Court cases affecting land-use planning, along with a comprehensive table of contents, a cross-referenced index, three matricies that relate sections of the book to one another, and a summary of constitutional principles that relates them to land-use planning techniques. All of these features make it easy to locate key constitutional principles quickly. This book is the result of a 1987 symposium that brought together two dozen leading practitioners and scholars in the fields of planning and law.
Leichtbau-Konstruktion: Berechnungsgrundlagen und Gestaltung (Viewegs Fachbücher der Technik)
by Bernd Klein
Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics #79)
by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz James Hanan1-systems are a mathematical formalism which was proposed by Aristid 1indenmayer in 1968 as a foundation for an axiomatic theory of develop ment. The notion promptly attracted the attention of computer scientists, who investigated 1-systems from the viewpoint of formal language theory. This theoretical line of research was pursued very actively in the seventies, resulting in over one thousand publications. A different research direction was taken in 1984 by Alvy Ray Smith, who proposed 1-systems as a tool for synthesizing realistic images of plants and pointed out the relationship between 1-systems and the concept of fractals introduced by Benoit Mandel brot. The work by Smith inspired our studies of the application of 1-systems to computer graphics. Originally, we were interested in two problems: • Can 1-systems be used as a realistic model of plant species found in nature? • Can 1-systems be applied to generate images of a wide class of fractals? It turned out that both questions had affirmative answers. Subsequently we found that 1-systems could be applied to other areas, such as the generation of tilings, reproduction of a geometric art form from East India, and synthesis of musical scores based on an interpretation of fractals. This book collects our results related to the graphical applications of- systems. It is a corrected version of the notes which we prepared for the ACM SIGGRAPH '88 course on fractals.
Making History: Dancing At Lughnasa; Fathers And Sons; Making History; Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney (York Notes Advanced Ser.)
by Brian FrielThe central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O'Neill at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. In his handling of this momentous episode Brian Friel has avoided the conventions of 'historical drama' to produce a play about history, the continuing process.
Marlowe: Dr. Faustus (Everyman #No. 102)
by Christopher MarloweTheir texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. For the first time, this edition boasts the complete plays - including two versions of Doctor Faustus.Blasphemy, perversion, defiance and transgression ... in a series of compelling tragedies, Marlowe challenged every authority of heaven and earth. From the proud wrath of Tamburlaine, the tyrant of Asia, to the racked anguish of Edward II, himself in thrall to unspeakable desires; from God's own Machiavel, the Duke of Guise, to Barabas, the Jew of Malta, curse of Christianity: all are taboo-breakers, to be broken in their turn. And in the tragedy of Doctor Faustus we perhaps read Marlowe's own: a tale of brilliance and audacity - and of terrible, inexorable punishment.Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. For the first time, this edition boasts the complete plays - including two versions of Doctor Faustus.
Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Patterns of Adoption and Consumer Use (Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting #27)
Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies such as home computers.
Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Patterns of Adoption and Consumer Use (Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting #27)
by Jerry L. SalvaggioMedia Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies such as home computers.