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Showing 1 to 20 of 262 for “"shadows"”.
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Shadows Hold Their Breath
<p>In 1979, after suffering the loss of her dear friend and sister-in-law, Kat Hunter begins to question everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement, Kat decides the only way she can discover who she was meant to be is to leave her husband and her three …
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The shape of shadows
This is a woman's journey backwards to her people and her place, taking her into deep memory and reconstruction of memory; and yielding moments of darkness she knows she must face, though she is hardly able. It is focused on her need to know her grandmother, and to understand her father's suicide …
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Shadows and light - a story collection
We lie and we are lied to. Why then does it shock us when those around us are never what they seem, what they expose for judgment, rather than the whole of what they are. We each seek to assure those around us that we are in fact something that they can understand, connect with, and ultimately, put …
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Accidental cameras : creating images from shadows
… systems that arise from everyday occlusions and shadows. By modeling the structured shadows created by various occlusions, we are able to recover hidden scenes. We explore three such imaging systems. In the first, we use a wall corner to recover one-dimensional motion in the hidden scene behind …
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A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
Magical Realism, religion, illness and death are twisted through this collection of short stories to explore how people deal with the fantasy of belief in a very real world. The non-fiction essay "How an Illness I Don't Have is Going to Kill Me" explores how invasive an illness is to a whole family …
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ILLUMINATION RECOVERY FROM IMAGES WITH CAST SHADOWS
The effects produced in an image by cast shadows can be quite complex, especially when light comes from all directions. This makes it difficult to recover the illumination from a scene and recognize objects from the images. In this paper, we show that such images can be well approximated using much …
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Real-time Shadows for Gigapixel Displacement Maps
<p>Shadows portray helpful information in scenes. From a scientific visualization standpoint, they help to add data without unnecessary clutter. In video games they add realism and depth. In common graphics pipelines, due to the independent and parallel rendering of geometric primitives, shadows …
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Ambient occlusion and shadows for molecular graphics
… graphic effects such as ambient occlusion and shadows that greatly improve the comprehension of the 3D shapes of the molecules. This thesis focuses on finding improved solutions to the real time rendering of Molecular Graphics on modern day computers. The methods of calculating ambient …
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Selections from SHADOWS OF CLOUDS ON THE MOUNTAINS
… essays are all chapters from a larger work, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains, a sort of life-spanning nonfiction Ulysses, a literary mixtape in which every chapter takes a different form, and every chapter's form is dictated by its content. These essays, or chapters, will appear, basically …
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"Aspects of Gerhard Stabler's ""Shadows of Wild Pain"""
… aspects of Gerhard Stabler's orchestral work Shadows of Wild Pain; and Appendices I-III, which contain my new performance edition of Stabler's orchestral work.
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Embracing the shadows : inhabitation of an infrastructural landscape
This thesis embraces the slots of space left behind by regional transportation infrastructure: It proposes an inhabitation of the places over, under and within existing enclaves and impasses, through an engagement of the specific, inherent forces of the site, both physical and sociological. The …
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Predicting microwave diffraction in the shadows of buildings
Designers of low-power radio systems for use in urban areas would benefit from the capability for accurate computer-based predictions of signal loss due to shadowing. This thesis is intended to fill a need for prediction methods that exploit a building database and consider the three-dimensional …
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‘Standing in the shadows’?: Reframing homosexuality in musical theatre
This thesis explores how the gay male is represented in musical theatre and considers how musical theatre writing practice can be utilised to create new iterations of the homosexual male character in musicals. The study has three main objectives: to explore the persistent patterns of gay …
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Society Must Be Defragmented: Data Shadows and Computational Life
<p>It is difficult to remember and perhaps harder to imagine that, once upon a time, a person with no prior experience could build a webpage in a couple of afternoons. Today, due to increasing interactivity and dynamism, building out things on the web is the domain of professionals and committed …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
This dissertation reads David Foster Wallace's literary output against the complicated history of identity politics and multiculturalism in America. Wallace's career coincides with the institutionalisation of second-wave feminism in the 1980s (including at his own university, Amherst College), the …
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Generating semantic descriptions from drawing of scenes with shadows.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1972
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From Shadows to Hotspots: Imaging of Inner Protoplanetary Disc Structure
… inner and outer discs, which explains the narrow shadows observed in scattered-light images. This geometric constraint enables me to determine both the inner and outer disc orientations and estimate the outer disc scale height to be approximately 13%, which results in agreement with theoretical …
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