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It's a series of refractions, not a series of observations.

The mirrored refractions between host and human are further refracted.

Miller's work shows a fascination with digital reflections, refractions, patterns, and feedback loops.

We're talking about the ability to calculate reflections within refractions within even more reflections.

Her writing overwhelms any simple method of investigation, much as light shows color through refractions in a crystal.

His own story is one he reveals with less ease, and explains, perhaps, why he works in refractions.

When moving through the space, visitors are confronted with reflections and refractions of both the Laughing Snake and themselves.

Darboven mirrors reality in the form of countless permutations, which then fragment into a seemingly infinite series of refractions.

There have been foggy rave refractions, straight-up house belters, and blissed ambience buried in that string of recent releases.

Across 12 tracks, he views dancefloor history through a prism—drawing new colors and shapes out of the resulting refractions.

This technique, according to Sab, is usually used to model phenomena like hot air distortion or refractions of uneven glass.

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem was curated by Connie H. Choi and organized by Emily Kuhlmann.

I liked visionary language that had a lot of really condensed imagery, where words could spark these almost gemlike refractions.

Now, I love to capture water drop refractions and reflections on flowers, dandelions, and cobwebs that I gather from my garden.

Because of this, her language can appear confusing, as if one is looking through a crystal and, seeing simultaneous refractions of light.

In a film, such a sequence of rainbow refractions might be used to summon a childhood memory, or trigger a sunlit meditation.

MoAD's programming also extends the Black Refractions narrative beyond Harlem through a solo show by Studio Museum Artist-In-Residence alum Sadie Barnette.

Atwood has never been cagey about the fact that her "historical" and dystopian novels are simply refractions of current issues, especially those facing women.

The sanctuary is just over an hour's drive east of Santa Fe and is best seen on bright, sunny days for optimum light refractions.

Reflections, refractions, windows, mirrors, and even shooting underwater (made possible with an external, waterproof casing) provide new takes on common snapshot subjects like portraits or pet photos.

The light refractions on the glass back are meant to suit the fickle needs of millennials, who insist on having their phones stand out in a crowd.

Lloyd's work anchors MoAD's Black Refractions to the Studio Museum's inaugural show, a historical footnote that sets the stage for the diverse works shown in the exhibition.

Elsewhere there's hazy refractions of rap beats and R&B (on tracks like "cul de sac" and "crystals") interspersed with in-the-red field recordings and ghostly samples.

Glittery LED lights then start flashing and changing colors from white to red as one's field of vision is splintered into endless refractions that create a new, infinite horizon.

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem first brings highlights from the iconic New York institution's collection to the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

In Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, curators delve into the Studio Museum's collection to share its history of community engagement, education, and support of artists.

Of the 50 artists represented in Black Refractions, many participated in the Museum's foundational Artist-In-Residence program, which provides artists with studio space, support, and essential community engagement.

The lovely "Shimmer" table (Glas Italia, 2014) is built from different colors of laminated glass sheets, producing polychromatic refractions that call to mind the great Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata.

As much as Black Refractions is a story of the Studio Museum's past, it's also writing the story of its future as they continue to expand their programming beyond gallery walls.

The best CGI in films now looks like it's part of the real world, reflections and refractions and all, and now Nvidia's new cards promise to bring the same realism to games.

He's made soaring compositions with the ascendant Laraaji and cosmic reggae refractions with the Congos and M. Geddes Gengras, among a whole lot of other collaborative curios scattered across his Discogs page.

And one appreciates how Alba tenderly holds each of them up to a light, turning them this way and that to find what kinds of refractions best make them come to life.

Image: NvidiaA lot of the impressive effects that ray tracing brings—reflections, shadows, refractions—already exist in computer games, but the details of these effects are mostly fudged or estimated by graphics artists.

It is only one example of the way the legacy of ancient Greece, which is massive and diverse in itself, has been subjected to an even wider range of historical refractions and readings.

Even as Lawrence sings sometimes—as on the the golden-hour refractions of "Spanish House"—your ear can be more drawn to Deebank's gleaming leads, which flutter with speedy stillness in the margins.

While the colorful light refractions are what I had hoped to see, I was far more struck by the structure itself and the marriage of art, architecture, and contemplation in a secular setting.

Because it mimics the way light bounces from object to object in a scene, reflective surfaces and refractions through glass or liquid can be rendered much more accurately, even in real time, leading to heightened realism.

And yet Caro's squib about working is iridescent, so many brilliant refractions of light from his hard slog of discovering what life has really meant for the people in his narratives, the powerful and the powerless.

YMFEES, apparently short for "Your Mom's Favorite Easy-E Song," makes those philosophical meanderings feel even more unsettling as it undertakes its boundary-pushing psycho-journey through claustrophobic industrial clattering, digitalist dub refractions, and humid atmospherics.

Over the past few years, as DJ Seinfeld, he's made deep house tracks raised on Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks soundtrack ("U"), warbling acid house ("Feel De Bum Slap"), and crunchy, heartbroken trance refractions ("Time Spent Away From U").

But from the dubby blips of his first love letter to his hometown South London Boroughs to the rave refractions of Pre-Dawn / Indoors released just last week, each of his releases offers the possibility of transportation to other realms.

The album gets easier-going along the way, with the breezy "Prisoner of Mars"; the swaying, orchestral bliss of "Rainbo Conversation"; and the lengthy "Refractions in the Plastic Pulse," essentially a four-part suite where the band expresses a range of experimental urges.

MoAD describes the show, which runs concurrently with Black Refractions, as "a continuous exchange between two centers of Black artistic production," further illustrating that the Studio Museum's mission as "the nexus for artists of African descent" isn't limited to a single geographic space.

Since 2008, the imprint has been a hub at the gnarled outer realms of electronic music, issuing—among their vast swath of releases—battered takes on futuristic techno, subzero grime refractions, chest-caving drones, and ambient records that feel like unusually aggro ASMR tapes.

Inspired by a strong female character named Martha in Alain LeMay's Western novel, The Searchers (123) — and John Ford's 1956 movie based on the book — the new ballet is allegorical, "a series of refractions of imagery from the American West and the Martha story," Gleich told Hyperallergic.

Playlist: "Brakhage" / "Plastic Mile" / "Nomus et Phusis" / "Prisoner of Mars" / "The Man With 100 Cells" / "Rainbo Conversation" / "Spacemoth" / "Hallucinex" / "Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" / "Daisy Click Clack" / "Laserblast" / "Gus The Mynah Bird" / "Spool of Collusion" Listening to Stereolab's discography, it's easy to overlook the fact that their music contained some overtly political manifestos.

When the Studio Museum originally opened in 1968, they featured Lloyd's abstract work in a solo show titled Electronic Refractions II; the museum's selection of electronically-programmed lightbulbs fastened into colorful mosaics raised the collective eyebrow of New York's art community, which was expecting to see a showcase of expressly Black, figurative work.

If you think about how light travels through a scene—literally at the speed of light—and how shadows, reflections, and refractions are formed (such as when light passes through water), it's perfectly understandable why consumer graphics cards have taken all this time to get to a stage where real-time ray tracing is possible.

But on a deeper level, we also move from a 20th-century spy narrative, whose female characters exist as refractions of the ebb and flow of male desire — two beautiful mistresses of powerful men share "a jeweled brilliance and a kind of dressed nakedness"; the older woman working at the reception desk of a hotel turns pink "like a menopausal groupie" — to something that feels a great deal more contemporary.

More recent works include Prism and Cascade for the trumpeter Stephen Altoft, Constellations (for piano, percussion and computer) commissioned for the Verblendungen festival in Belgium, ThreeFour for the Goldberg Ensemble and Enmeshed written for L a u t and premiered at the 2005 Sonorities Festival in Belfast. A CD of four of his works (Refractions, Mälarsång, Epicycle and Uppvaknande) is available under the collective title Refractions (MPSCD003).

As shown below, etendue is conserved as light travels through free space and at refractions or reflections. It is then also conserved as light travels through optical systems where it undergoes perfect reflections or refractions. However, if light was to hit, say, a diffuser, its solid angle would increase, increasing the etendue. Etendue can then remain constant or it can increase as light propagates through an optic, but it cannot decrease.

Also, the angles of refractions are equal i.e. r_1 = r_2. And, the angle of incidence and angle of emergence equal each other ( i = e). This is clearly visible in the graph in the next section.

218, 241. Another example is the Mantra of Light (kōmyō shingon), which is common in Japanese Soto Zen and was derived from the Shingon sect.Unno, Mark, Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, Ch. 1.

Paxson, Pat (2011). Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries: Reflections and Refractions of the Gaze in Painting Today. Xlibris, Ettinger continued to explore this concept in her published work,Ettinger Bracha L. (2004). Weaving a woman artist with-in the matrixial encounter-event.

66–73 # Every source of light emits large numbers of tiny particles known as corpuscles in a medium surrounding the source. # These corpuscles are perfectly elastic, rigid, and weightless.gutenberg.org _Opticks, or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light_. Sir Isaac Newton. 1704.

The passing of sun over these leaves casts complex shadows and reflections onto the marble ground of the platypusary. The movement of the water through the pools provides different refractions cast upon the gold panels, reiterating the constant connection and reflection. Awelye represents ceremony in aboriginal culture of Australia.

Mikhail Averbakh's works were devoted to various optical refractions, traumas, and such problems as blindness, glaucoma, and trachoma. He developed and introduced a series of new eye operations. In 1933 Mikhail Averbakh was given a title of Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR. In 1935 he was awarded with the Order of Lenin.

He was the first to reflect on the wishes of his parents. He lived in a modest house. Not exceeding 60 meters, his journey with the world was difficult dreams and refractions, which is from the village of Damascus countryside, he fled to the city to look for Uncle to. He worked at the age of fourteen.

According to John Consadine, co-editor of Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture, Thiessen's dedication to the study of Plautdietsch grew out of his desire to be a creative writer in the small language that was his mother tongue. Thiessen was a professor of German Studies at the University of Winnipeg for many years.

This theorem is known as Ivory's theorem. He also published anonymously an edition of Euclid's Elements, which was described as having brought the difficult problems "more within the reach of ordinary understandings.""Ivory, James" Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen Volume 2, Glasgow : Blackie & Son, 1875. Page 351 His later papers in the Philosophical Transactions treat of astronomical refractions, of planetary perturbations, of equilibrium of fluid masses, etc.

An RPG by the same name, based on the Erma Felna storyline, was produced by Chessex in 1989 and 1993. The concept was re-engineered in 2003 by Sanguine Productions.Several, Albedo: The Role-Playing Game, WikiFur. Accessed 12 April 2007 There was also an associated short-lived fan magazine, Refractions, which carried original artwork, stories, and discussions of the cultures shown in the Erma Felna, EDF universe.

In the same year he composed a mass for choir and double wind quintet for the ensemble o-ton. His Third stream composition Refractions, for which he was awarded the Europäische Komponistenpreis der Stadt Berlin, was premiered in 2009,Nachricht der Neuen Musikzeitung vom 24. by the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Youth Orchestra. In 2011 he was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize as a composer.

Until Fresnel turned his attention to biaxial birefringence, it was assumed that one of the two refractions was ordinary, even in biaxial crystals.Buchwald, 1989, p. 260. But, in a memoir submittedIn Fresnel's collected works (1866–70), a paper is said to have been "presented" ("présenté") if it was merely delivered to the Permanent Secretary of the Académie for witnessing or processing (cf. vol. 1, p.

Sun dogs as well as the 22° and 46° halos are explained in terms of refractions from ice crystals on pages 466 - 524. Jacobowitz in 1971 was the first to apply the ray-tracing technique to hexagonal ice crystal. Wendling et al. (1979) extended Jacobowitz's work from hexagonal ice particle with infinite length to finite length and combined Monte Carlo technique to the ray-tracing simulations.

It allowed among other things to protect from the sunlight's reflections and refractions. This image is so powerful: the same eyes, smudged with black, glazing the same burning sun". Speaking on his inspiration, Bahmad shares, "This EP literally represents the creation of my artistic persona. This alter-ego that silently ruled my secret garden, a vital space I instinctively created when I was younger and more fragile.

Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his students to four-mallet marimba techniques.

Luisa Valenzuela in Quito, Ecuador, 1990 Luisa Valenzuela (born November 26, 1938) is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.Sharon Magnarelli, Reflections/Refractions, Reading Luisa Valenzuela (New York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1988). She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina.

Their chemical composition is created to take in some color of light and reflect the rest. In contrast, schematochromes (structural colors) are colors created by light reflections from a colorless surface and refractions by tissues. Schematochromes act like prisms, refracting and dispersing visible light to the surroundings, which will eventually reflect a specific combination of colors. These categories are determined by the movement of pigments within the chromatophores.

Oddly enough the percolator was patented by others several years after, and applied to the clearing of sugar. Field continued his application of science to the purposes of the artist with good effect; his dexterity and care in the preparation of delicate colours set all competition at defiance. Among his other inventions may be mentioned his metrochrome and his conical lenses, which produced a continuous rainbow with varied effects of refractions.

On the latter subject he investigated the nature of light and color, refractions, and the possibility of primary and secondary colors. He was the author of books on philosophy, and published a translation of Aristotle's Physica. In 1634 he became an early member of the Académie française, and in 1666 was an original member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was the father of clergyman Pierre Cureau de la Chambre (1640–1693).

Although criticism of the wider project to create an Icelandic Health Sector Database combining genealogical, medical, and genetic records has been extensive,Arnar Árnason and Bob Simpson, 'Refractions through Culture: The New Genomics in Iceland', Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 68:4 (2003), 533-53 (p. 546-47), DOI: 10.1080/0014184032000160550. Íslendingabók itself has been popular: > the responses to the genealogies on the Web were overwhelming. Overnight, > the Book of Icelanders became a popular pastime.

Recently, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs researchers solved the extension of Alhazen's problem to general rotationally symmetric quadric mirrors including hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptical mirrors. They showed that the mirror reflection point can be computed by solving an eighth degree equation in the most general case. If the camera (eye) is placed on the axis of the mirror, the degree of the equation reduces to six. Alhazen's problem can also be extended to multiple refractions from a spherical ball.

The ray-tracing performed by the RT cores can be used to produce reflections, refractions and shadows, replacing traditional raster techniques such as cube maps and depth maps. Instead of replacing rasterization entirely, however, the information gathered from ray-tracing can be used to augment the shading with information that is much more photo-realistic, especially in regards to off-camera action. Nvidia said the ray-tracing performance increased about 8 times over the previous consumer architecture, Pascal.

Radiosity was perhaps the first rendering algorithm in widespread use which accounted for diffuse indirect lighting. Earlier rendering algorithms, such as Whitted-style ray tracing were capable of computing effects such as reflections, refractions, and shadows, but despite being highly global phenomena, these effects were not commonly referred to as "global illumination." As a consequence, the terms "diffuse interreflection" and "radiosity" both became confused with "global illumination" in popular parlance. However, the three are distinct concepts.

The Helmholtz reciprocity principle describes how a ray of light and its reverse ray encounter matched optical adventures, such as reflections, refractions, and absorptions in a passive medium, or at an interface. It does not apply to moving, non-linear, or magnetic media. For example, incoming and outgoing light can be considered as reversals of each other,Hapke, B. (1993). Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, , Section 10C, pages 263-264.

Such ray tracing techniques are used to describe optical phenomena such as rainbow of halo on hexagonal ice crystals for large particles. Review of several mathematical techniques is provided in series of publications. The 46° halo was first explained as being caused by refractions through ice crystals in 1679 by the French physicist Edmé Mariotte (1620–1684) in terms of light refraction E. Mariotte, Quatrieme Essay. De la Nature des Couleur (Paris, France: Estienne Michallet, 1681).

HDR rendering also affects how light is preserved in optical phenomena such as reflections and refractions, as well as transparent materials such as glass. In LDR rendering, very bright light sources in a scene (such as the sun) are capped at 1.0. When this light is reflected the result must then be less than or equal to 1.0. However, in HDR rendering, very bright light sources can exceed the 1.0 brightness to simulate their actual values.

Adro is usually invisible, but will appear to those who are close to death, and is thus also associated with death. Adro was worshiped through child sacrifice, but since the 1930s a ram was substituted as the victim. Some versions do not consider Adro to be the evil equivalent of Adroa, but as a class of earthly spirits who are "refractions" of the good aspect. Both Adroa and Adro are part of a Lugbara man, as a sign of divine creation.

Scottish Poetry Library, page on Anne Crowe (translator) . Since 2003, she has been president of QUARKpoesia (Aula de Poesia de la Universitat Autònoma), a university association promoting poetry and translation of poetry from less translated languages (minority literatures). In 2006, she organized and launched the poetry publication series, Refraccions (Refractions), dedicated primarily to publishing bilingual poetry books, through the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's publishing office, the Servei de Publicacions. As a performer, she has toured far and wide reciting her poetry.

These birds stalk their prey in shallow water, often running or stirring the water with their feet or flicking their wings to disturb prey; they may also stand still and wait to ambush prey. They eat fish, crustaceans, and molluscs. In coastal areas, they regularly feed on mudskippers. Laboratory studies show them to be capable of making corrections for refractions but the probability of missing increases when they are forced to strike at prey at very acute angles to the water surface.

The tank deck, now hospital, bolstered a receiving or triage area, 78 hospital beds and accommodations (washrooms, toilets, increased galley), refrigerators, and a surgical suite. The ship was equipped with specialist consultation and out-patient care at all times, including: radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, eye refractions, dental care, a blood bank, and stores for 25 tons of medical supplies. Staff was increased to 6 physicians, one dentist and a complement of corpsmen. During Normandy most LSTs had one or two Corpsmen.

Anthony Peter Pateras (born 1979) is an Australian-born composer, pianist and electronic musician. At the APRA Music Awards' Art Music Awards, he has been nominated three times: 2011 for Performance of the Year for his composition, Refractions, performed by Clocked Out and Speak Percussion; 2012 for Work of the Year – Instrumental for Flesh and Ghost performed by Speak Percussion; and 2015 for Performance of the Year for Beauty Will Be Amnesiac or Will not Be at All performed by Synergy Percussion.

Also, the multiple sensors needed for the USBL transducer pole position and orientation compensation each introduce additional errors. Finally, the non-uniformity of the underwater acoustic environment cause signal refractions and reflections that have a greater impact on USBL positioning than is the case for the LBL geometry. Short-baseline (SBL) systems use a baseline consisting of three or more individual sonar transducers that are connected by wire to a central control box. Accuracy depends on transducer spacing and mounting method.

Later, he worked at Lindshammars Glasbruk, where he developed his sculptures to prisms of gemstone colors that played with light reflections and refractions in the glass. Edvin Öhrstrom won a contest for the decoration of Sergels torg in Stockholm, with a 37.5 metres high steel construction with 80 000 glass prisms, lit from within. This 130 tonnes heavy glass obelisk, Kristallvertikalaccent, is made from steel and covered with glass from Lindshammars Glasbruk and was inaugurated in 1974. The light source is four lamps inside the obelisk.

Full-waveform-inversion (FWI) methods are among the most recent techniques for geotechnical site characterization, and are still under continuous development. The method is fairly general, and is capable of imaging the arbitrarily heterogeneous compressional and shear wave velocity profiles of the soil. Elastic waves are used to probe the site under investigation, by placing seismic vibrators on the ground surface. These waves propagate through the soil, and due to the heterogeneous geological structure of the site under investigation, multiple reflections and refractions occur.

21-39 . Farisi also "proposed a model where the ray of light from the sun was refracted twice by a water droplet, one or more reflections occurring between the two refractions." He verified this through extensive experimentation using a transparent sphere filled with water and a camera obscura. His research in this regard was based on theoretical investigations in dioptrics conducted on the so-called Burning Sphere (al-Kura al-muhriqa) in the tradition of Ibn Sahl (d. ca. 1000) and Ibn al-Haytham (d. ca.

One of Nelson's pieces, "Fractal Mountains," won first prize in an international competition for microtonal music at the Third Coast New Music Festival in San Antonio. The same work was chosen by Wergo Records of West Germany for inclusion in a compact disk anthology of computer music. In 1988, his “Amber Waves” was awarded first prize in music at “Contours of the Mind,” an international competition for computer-based art held at the Australian National University. “Morso” for solo flute and “Refractions” for MIDI Horn and synthesizers are recorded on Opus One.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. (Opticks was originally published in 1704). (A scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706.) The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. It is considered one of the great works of science in history.

This eliminates the possibility of accurately rendering reflections, refractions, or the natural falloff of shadows; however all of these elements can be faked to a degree, by creative use of texture maps or other methods. The high speed of calculation made ray casting a handy rendering method in early real-time 3D video games. In nature, a light source emits a ray of light that travels, eventually, to a surface that interrupts its progress. One can think of this "ray" as a stream of photons travelling along the same path.

Simple shaders can be created by specifying a set of material attributes such as a diffuse reflection color, a specular reflection color, and a group of texture maps. The engine internally generates the necessary shader code for each combination of material and light type that it encounters when rendering a scene. Material attributes can be used to produce effects such as normal mapping, parallax mapping, horizon mapping, and bumpy reflections or refractions. C4 also includes a graphical Shader Editor that allows complex custom materials to be created using a large set of predefined operations.

From theory of the rainbow In 1611 he published, at Venice, a scientific work entitled: , in which, according to Isaac Newton, he was the first to develop the theory of the rainbow by drawing attention to the fact that in each raindrop the light undergoes two refractions and an intermediate reflection. His claim to that distinction is, however, disputed in favor of Descartes. In 1625 his work "Euripus, seu de fluxu et refluxu maris sententia" was published posthumously in Rome. It is an important source for the strange story of the theory of tides.

Seismic testing in 1940 Reflections and refractions of seismic waves at geologic interfaces within the Earth were first observed on recordings of earthquake-generated seismic waves. The basic model of the Earth's deep interior is based on observations of earthquake-generated seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's interior (e.g., Mohorovičić, 1910). The use of human-generated seismic waves to map in detail the geology of the upper few kilometers of the Earth's crust followed shortly thereafter and has developed mainly due to commercial enterprise, particularly the petroleum industry.

According to Geoffrey Samuel: > If Buddhahood is a source of infinite potentiality accessible at any time, > then the Tantric deities are in a sense partial aspects, refractions of that > total potentiality. Visualizing one of these deities, or oneself identifying > with one of them, is not, in Tibetan Tantric thought, a technique to worship > an external entity. Rather, it is a way of accessing or tuning into > something that is an intrinsic part of the structure of the universe — as of > course is the practitioner him or herself.Samuel 2012, p. 71.

The two planes made a simple relationship between light and shadow. Camargo grasped it; unconsciously, he had made the first cylindrical element. In the apple was the synthesis he had been working towards … the combination of a single element of substance (the rounded body of the apple) and direction (the plane he had just exposed). It is a synthesis of his thought and experience in a single sculptural sign” It was from cutting this apple that Camargo was able to see how the refractions of light acted differently based on circumstance.

" Glenn Swan of AllMusic praised the album as "Seefeel at their most ornate. They squint by staring into the geometric refractions of light and record the results." Jason Ferguson of Harp described Quique as "shimmered with a futuristic ethereality that was far more substantial than the electro- ambience of the era, but also much less assaultive than the shoegazers Seefeel was affiliated with early on," adding that the 2007 re-issue was "a fitting tribute to a very unique sound." Los Angeles Times writer Chris Barton called it an "underrated" album "that even 20 years later sounds like nothing else.

The Quadro RTX series is based on the Turing microarchitecture, and features real-time raytracing. This is accelerated by the use of new RT cores, which are designed to process quadtrees and spherical hierarchies, and speed up collision tests with individual triangles. The raytracing performed by the RT cores can be used to produce reflections, refractions and shadows, replacing traditional raster techniques such as cube maps and depth maps. Instead of replacing rasterization entirely, however, the information gathered from ray-tracing can be used to augment the shading with information that is much more physically correct, especially regarding off-camera action.

After devoting some time to the inquiry he found that by combining two lenses formed of different kinds of glass, he could make an achromatic lens where the effects of the unequal refractions of two colors of light (red and blue) was corrected. In 1733, he succeeded in constructing telescope lenses which exhibited much reduced chromatic aberration. One of his instruments had an objective measuring with a relatively short focal length of . Hall was a man of independent means and seems to have been careless of fame; at least he took no trouble to communicate his invention to the world.

Lee's plays have been presented in New York City at, The Public Theater (Straight White Men), the Baryshnikov Arts Center (Untitled Feminist Show), LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater (We're Gonna Die), Joe's Pub (We're Gonna Die), Soho Repertory Theater (Lear),David Cote, “ LEAR: Father disfigure,” Time Out New York, January 2010. The Appeal,David Cote, "The Appeal," Time Out New York, April 22–29, 2004. The Kitchen (The Shipment)Charles Isherwood, "Off-Center Refractions of African- American Worlds," The New York Times, January 2009. The New York Times, The Public Theater (Church), P.S. 122 (Church),Jason Zinoman, "Confronting Questions of Faith With a Few New Responses," The New York Times, May 2007.

He created a towering sculpture in a Kansas City park that sprayed water in order to create prismatic light refractions. His emphasis increasingly focused on light; he used mirrors, pure pigments, gas flames, fluorescent paint, refraction tape, glass, neon tubes and other materials to create light effects. "I want the sculptures to remind us all," he said, "that our lives are inextricably linked to light, and that our universe is in constant motion." He created the Light+Time Tower at the city of Raleigh, North Carolina designed to diffract the morning and afternoon sunlight into vibrant colors visible to the commuters who pass by it.

Sound velocity in the ocean varies with depth due to changes in density and temperature, reaching a local minimum near a depth of 800–1000 meters. This local minimum, called the SOFAR channel, acts as a waveguide, as sound tends to bend towards it. Ray tracing may be used to calculate the path of sound through the ocean up to very large distances, incorporating the effects of the SOFAR channel, as well as reflections and refractions off the ocean surface and bottom. From this, locations of high and low signal intensity may be computed, which are useful in the fields of ocean acoustics, underwater acoustic communication, and acoustic thermometry.

Vertex distance Vertex distance is the distance between the back surface of a corrective lens, i.e. glasses (spectacles) or contact lenses, and the front of the cornea. Increasing or decreasing the vertex distance changes the optical properties of the system, by moving the focal point forward or backward, effectively changing the power of the lens relative to the eye. Since most refractions (the measurement that determines the power of a corrective lens) are performed at a vertex distance of 12-14 mm, the power of the correction may need to be modified from the initial prescription so that light reaches the patient's eye with the same effective power that it did through the phoropter or trial frame.

Oțoiu has authored numerous articles on British and Irish literature and their interferences with Romanian culture. Some of these have been included in the volume Under Eastern Eyes: Cross-cultural Refractions (Timișoara: Marineasa, 2003). He has contributed with a chapter entitled Automobile Metempsychoses in the Land of Dracula to the volume Autopia: Cars and Culture, edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr (London: Reaktion Books, 2002). He has synthetized the evolution of the Romanian reception of James Joyce's work in the chapter 'Le sens du pousser': On the Spiral of Joyce's Reception in Romania in the massive study The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, edited by Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).

Global illumination (GI), or indirect illumination, is a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes. Such algorithms take into account not only the light that comes directly from a light source (direct illumination), but also subsequent cases in which light rays from the same source are reflected by other surfaces in the scene, whether reflective or not (indirect illumination). Theoretically, reflections, refractions, and shadows are all examples of global illumination, because when simulating them, one object affects the rendering of another (as opposed to an object being affected only by a direct source of light). In practice, however, only the simulation of diffuse inter-reflection or caustics is called global illumination.

He projected light unto the sphere and ultimately deducted through several trials and detailed observations of reflections and refractions of light that the colors of the rainbow are phenomena of the decomposition of light. His research had resonances with the studies of his contemporary Theodoric of Freiberg (without any contacts between them; even though they both relied on Ibn al-Haytham's legacy), and later with the experiments of Descartes and Newton in dioptrics (for instance, Newton conducted a similar experiment at Trinity College, though using a prism rather than a sphere).Nader El-Bizri, "Ibn al-Haytham", in Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, eds. Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis (New York — London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 237–240.

"Amarnath yatra ends, least number of pilgrims in decade" , The Hindu, 18 August 2016. The yatra is both a way of earning revenue by the state government by imposing tax on pilgrims,"BJP demands removal of Amarnath yatra entry fee" , Times of India."No Additional Tax Levied on Vehicles Going to Amarnath and Vaishno Devi" , Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Finance of Government of India , 2010. and making living by the local Shia Muslim Bakarwal-Gujjars by taking a portion of revenue and by offering services to the Hindu pilgrims, and this source of income has been threatened by the Kashmiri militant groups who have harassed and attacked the yatra numerous times,Carl W. Ernst, 2016, "Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga" , SAGE Publications, .

Reaching an abandoned village, they discover plants that have taken on human-like forms. Josie theorizes that the Shimmer functions as a prism for DNA, distorting and transforming everything within its boundaries, including the group’s own bodies. Anya, overcome with paranoia after watching her fingerprints change, ties up the others and accuses Lena of murdering Cass. The bear lures Anya away by emitting a cry for help in Cass's voice, and kills Anya, while Josie frees herself and shoots the bear dead. Ventress, who has terminal cancer and is determined to confront the Shimmer’s source, leaves alone for the lighthouse. Josie and Lena realise that the Shimmer’s “refractions” are already inside their bodies; Josie believes Cass's dying mind was "refracted" into the bear, and herself refracts into plant form.

Dweck's Mermaid 1 at an exhibition at Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery in Brussels in 2008 Dweck's second book Mermaids was released in 2008 by Ditch Plains Press. Its photographs featured female nudes swimming under water, evoking the legend of the mermaid. As art editor Christopher Sweet described them in his introduction to the book, “Whether diving in the blue refractions of a swimming pool or suspended like a seraph in the cool, pellucid depths of a spring or emerging tentatively onto a rocky shore, Michael Dweck's mermaids are lovely and aloof and bare of all raiment but for their beautiful manes and the elemental draperies that surround them. Water, light, and lens converge to capture in modern guise the elusive creature of myth.” Like his previous book, The End: Montauk, N.Y., Mermaids was inspired by Dweck's experiences interacting with the local environment.

She examines recurring characters and places from as many angled refractions as possible until one of the richest, fullest New England spiritual topographies ever written emerges. Readers who know Savageau’s earlier chronicling of those who sacralize and profane her homescape will be astonished at this poetic culmination of fully-drawn portraits. I fell, hard, for the boy under the drain pipe, the whale’s word for world, the slapping tails of children, the hummingbird in the refrigerator, the cathechist with knife in her teeth, the wife spraying breast milk at the breakfast table, the woodchuck too busy for crucifixions, the piano baptized in molasses, the parakeet’s family jewels, the leathered and lathered Doc Martened butch leading her woman around the dance floor, the lightning that converses with fireflies, and everyone, everything that busts out of the gamebag and into Cheryl Savageau’s poetry.

The drawback of rasterization is that non-local effects, required for an accurate simulation of a scene, such as reflections and shadows are difficult; and refractionsChris Wyman's Research: Interactive Refractions Department of Computer Science at The University of Iowa, www.cs.uiowa.edu nearly impossible to compute. The ray tracing algorithm is inherently suitable for scaling by parallelization of individual ray renders.SaarCOR —A Hardware Architecture for Ray Tracing, Jörg Schmittler, Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Section 2, "Previous work" However anything other than ray casting requires recursion of the ray tracing algorithm (and random access to the scene graph) to complete their analysis,SaarCOR —A Hardware Architecture for Ray Tracing, Jörg Schmittler, Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Section 3, "The Ray Tracing Algorithm" since reflected, refracted, and scattered rays require that various parts of the scene be re-accessed in a way not easily predicted.

It begins with a mountainous trek from the Nunwan and Chandanwari base camps at Pahalgam and reaches cave-shine after night halts at Sheshnag Lake and Panchtarni camps.Amarnath yatra ends, fewest pilgrims in decade, The Hindu, 18 August 2016. The yatra is both a way of earning revenue by the state government by imposing tax on pilgrims,BJP demands removal of Amarnath yatra entry fee, Times of India.No Additional Tax Levied on Vehicles Going to Amarnath and Vaishno Devi, Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Finance of Government of India, 2010. and making living by the local Shia Muslim Bakarwal-Gujjars by taking a portion of revenue and by offering services to the Hindu pilgrims, and this source of income has been threatened by the militant groups who have banned and attacked the yatra numerous times,Carl W. Ernst, 2016, Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga, SAGE Publications, .

Isaac Newton (1730) Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light, William Innys at the West-End of St. Paul's Andrew Janiak, in Newton as philosopher,Andrew Janiak (2008) Newton as Philosopher, Cambridge Core, July 2008 considered that Newton denied that gravity could be essential to matter, dismissed direct action at a distance, and also rejected the idea of a material substance. But Newton agreed, in Janiak’s view, with an immaterial ether, which he considered that Newton identifies himself with God himself: “Newton obviously thinks that God might be the very “immaterial medium” underlying all gravitational interactions among material bodies.” Steffen Ducheyne, in Newton on Action at a Distance, considered that Newton never accepted direct remote action, only material intervention or immaterial substance. Hylarie Kochiras, in Gravity and Newton’s substance counting problem, argued that Newton was inclined to reject direct action, giving priority to the hypothesis of an intangible environment.

The ray tracing performed by the RT cores can be used to produce effects such as reflections, refractions, shadows, depth of field, light scattering and caustics, replacing traditional raster techniques such as cube maps and depth maps. Instead of replacing rasterization entirely, however, ray tracing is offered in a hybrid model, in which the information gathered from ray tracing can be used to augment the rasterized shading for more photo-realistic results. The second generation Tensor Cores (succeeding Volta's) work in cooperation with the RT cores, and their AI features are used mainly to two ends: firstly, de-noising a partially ray traced image by filling in the blanks between rays cast; also another application of the Tensor cores is DLSS (deep learning super-sampling), a new method to replace anti-aliasing, by artificially generating detail to upscale the rendered image into a higher resolution. The Tensor cores apply deep learning models (for example, an image resolution enhancement model) which are constructed using supercomputers.

AllMusic awarded the album 4 and a half stars, stating, "Flying Toward the Sound is a major work for solo piano: courageous, vulnerable, poetically articulated, and technically awe-inspiring in form and execution".Jurek, T., AllMusic Review accessed November 18, 2019 The Guardian review by John Fordham awarded the album 3 stars, noting, "It's a specialised homage to pianists and pianos, but this is the work of a formidable virtuoso".Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, September 9, 2011 PopMatters reviewer Will Layman said, "I’d been thinking that Geri Allen had somehow gone flat in recent years, but I was wrong. She is just more catholic in the way she packages her intelligent, brave playing"Layman, W., PopMatters Review, November 18, 2010 JazzTimes stated, "the ghost of each pianist’s influence inhabits the "Refractions" suite... Nonetheless, every note of music is unmistakably Allen: clear, carefully plotted (even in the tangles of notes that shape the title track), and part of a larger soundscape that’s as surreal as it is melodic".