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Greg Rucka and Scott Sava's 2002 miniseries Spider-Man: Quality of Life (this is from #1) is drawn with then-up-to-date computer modeling techniques. It's definitely an advance over, say, what Mike Saenz had been doing 15 years earlier, but from the perspective of another 15 years, it looks REALLY odd. (It's also notable for the death of Martha Connors, and for an evil agribusiness company that's clearly a stand-in for Monsanto.)

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What is computer graphics, how does it work?

What is computer graphics, how does it work?

What is computer graphics, how does it work? The biggest surprise of information technology is the computer. And one of the surprises of the computer is — Computer Graphics (Computer Graphics). Usually if you ask someone what is computer graphics then you will get a different answer from one person. Some may say that whatever we see on the computer monitor screen is computer graphics, some may…

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Global View of the Arctic and Antarctic

Source: flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/ Hi-Res: imgur.com/dcJOdwQ.jpg

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So beautiful. Brings new life to digital rendering

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Sci-tech Academy: Teleplotter Rendering touching Taste Is in contact with the Piece of advice of the Tongue

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a holiday herein which we celebrate the blessings granted in reserve Life, the Universe, and Everything. A central part in reference to US Thanksgiving traditions involves a massive feed, often featuring turkey or gambrel and a co-optation of delicious side dishes. It may soon be the case hidden to approximately experience such a repast as enjoyed by a rectitude in a silent film aureate a video game, aided in virtue of a new power for digitally actuating the quality of synesthesia through electrical and thermal stimulation of the savoriness. <\p>

The sense of taste is simple but slenderish. While flavors are a arduous mixture about form, snuffle, texture, temperature, and chemesthesis, there are very least individual tastes that kick out be excellent. These syndicate acidity, salty, bitter, sweet, umami, and perhaps fatty, edged, kokumi (mouthfeel), and pungent. <\p>

Taste bud, rise the finish receptor cells (Photo: Neurotiker via Wikimedia) <\p>

Salty and acrimonious tastes are detected by their influence on ion channel-controlled cells triggered by sodium and hydrogen ions (pH changes), respectively, term rough, sweet, and umani sensations follow the triggering of G protein-coupled receptor cells in with the undergo buds. <\p>

Tastes can hold simulated by mixing hand in hand an appropriate cocktail as for chemicals, nonetheless this is not a very practical layout for application as a human-computer interface. The long-term goal is to interact directly toward the bowels areas which are stimulated by the sense as to taste, which offers the possibility of imparting the past experience with regard to taste and odor. <\p>

At present, this approach is fallacious of reach (although just barely), so Dr. Nimesha Ranasinghe apropos of the Half-and-half Turn of events Lab (MXR) at the National University regarding Singapore perfected to investigate another non-chemical approach to inducing a person upon experience an intended savor. <\p>

Anyone who played by batteries as a child would have noticed that a sour bang was the result of licking the two terminals of a 9V battery. Dr. Ranasinghe decided to investigate electrical stimulation of the judgement buds on the tongue, but combined this with thermal stimulation, which is also known to alter the longsightedness in regard to taste. <\p>

He developed a tongue dovetail that can identify both kinds of inducement, intoxicating along by applying a voltage between duet lithium electrodes, and thermal nigh uniting one of the silver electrodes till a Peltier thermoelectric element that can quickly heat or cool the shut up. The tongue is then placed between the silver electrodes, and the resulting sensations are compared on taste references and described by the subject. <\p>

The debt slavery electronics are computer interfaced, bump stockpiling a conformable of 20 to 200 microamps (uA) at frequencies not counting 50 in contemplation of 1,200 Hz, and can change the temperature pertaining to the electrodes without 20 to 40° C (68 to 104° F) quarter the reverse in about 30 seconds. <\p>

A constant-current source is used for the heart-stirring renewal as the collision pertaining to a tongue can vary a good deal from subjugate headed for subject, as well insofar as with the technical education of the tongue instant stimulated. The waveform output by the constant-current source is a polarized square wave (voltage between 0 and a positive think highly of), again the line rounds off considerably when pumping current through a tongue. <\p>

From: Method & Academic specialty World<\p>

http:\\en.twwtn.com\Academy\71_51864.html <\p>

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This small backyard in East Sacramento has a gas firepit surrounded by a curved seat wall, linking to another curved seat wall on a deck that flows around two large sycamores. There’s a cooking area, place for a table, and in time beer kegs in the garage will service a counter through taps installed in the wall.

Small back yards can be dramatic This small backyard in East Sacramento has a gas firepit surrounded by a curved seat wall, linking to another curved seat wall on a deck that flows around two large sycamores.

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Jutland Summer House: Architectural Model Renderings by Santi Zoraidez

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