Color vision

Artificial Intelligence, from your phone to the chess board to your car, is becoming more and more advanced, seemingly only bounded by our imagination. It seems as though we, as a society, should no longer be asking “Can I?” and instead should be asking “Should I?” Modern times are plagued with issues caused by human error such as mistakes, accidents, and misjudgment. If you could eliminate these errors, saving millions of lives a year, at the cost of a marginal amount of your freedom, would…

Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron’s plot consists of a group of super-humans, “The Avengers,” who together destroy villains and are idolized as heroes. Over the course of the screenplay, “Iron Man”, an Avenger, creates an artificially intelligent, computerized system whose purpose is to rid the world of evil. Becoming intrigued as one of the smartest and most prestigious men in the world, Iron Man sees it fit to further innovate the system. Soon the artificial intelligence tries to exterminate…

in HCI A driverless car is also known as self-driving, autonomous car which is a robotic vehicle manufactured so that it can sense and navigate within the environment without human input. It uses different techniques such as GPS, radar or computer vision to detect the surroundings. Big companies such as Google, Audi and BMW are already testing the driverless cars to see if it is worth making it. In California, while testing the driverless cars, it navigated 140,000 miles. However, only a single…

Driverless cars - they feel their surroundings with such techniques as radar, lidar, GPS, odometry, & computer vision. They update their maps based on sensory input, allowing the vehicles to keep track of their position, even in changing conditions, or in a uncharted environment. These machines have control systems that are capable of analyzing sensory data to distinguish between different cars on the road. Now, some people do not exactly support these vehicles. ‘Oh, they’ll destroy the…

person has low vision or a visual impairment they often need a support network that is composed of their family and friends. Most people instinctively agree to support their loved ones, but they may not truly understand the level of support that might be required. The article, Family Functioning and Low Vision: a systematic review, by Jennifer K. Bambara examines the issues faced by individuals with low vision and the family members that choose to support them. People with low vision are faced…

procedural justice. Third, Error 3: Lacking a Vision, talks about the need for a vision which defines how the organization will move forward communicated through a strong coalition. The vision should be simple to understand and compelling enough to move the employees to action. Fourth, Under-communicating the Vision by a Factor of Ten, there should be enough communication of the vision extending to all employees if possible. Communication of the vision cannot be a one-time event, there should…

Slide 1: Introduction. A. Thesis Slide 2: What is a film director? A. Explanation of what a film director is. B. The salary. Slide 3: What colleges should you go to and what degrees are useful for becoming a film director? Names of top colleges to become a film director. A. Degree needed. B. How much the college cost? C. Where is the college? Slide 4: How are these jobs being done without degrees in the 21st century? A. How are people are making YouTube shows? B. Web series? C.…

How to Train Your Dragon and the Relevance to the Promethean Myth How to Train Your Dragon is a child’s adventure story that follows a boy, Hiccup, who is a misfit in a Viking community. Hiccup is scrawny, unlike most of the Vikings. He is always making a mess with every situation. Hiccup wants to fit in and to do so he must kill dragons like the rest of the community. The community of Burke all know hiccup, and with this knowledge they try to keep him working during the dragon attacks because…

17th century. All it needed to work was light, such as a candle, and crude lenses. It was used for entertainment and often times, education, for all ages. It remained very popular until motion toys came about and soon the concept of “persistence of vision” came forth, in which it is “the eye's capacity to retain an image even after it has been removed”. Peter Mark Roget in 1824 came up with that description and idea and helped advance in cinema. In 1831, Michael Faraday discovered the law of…

The field of animation has been one of the most interesting and creative forms of film and its history goes almost all the way back to the beginning of movies. The first example is a short two-minute film called The Enchanted Drawing from the year 1900. It was not entirely animated as it included live action footage, but it was the first movie with animated sequences as far as I am aware. It consists of a man (in live-action) drawing a picture of a man's face on an easel, as well as other…