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4 unusual facts about IMAGE


Gunther Uhlmann

Gunther Alberto Uhlmann Arancibia (9 February 1952, Chile) is a mathematician whose research focuses on inverse problems and imaging, microlocal analysis and partial differential equations.

Jerry Goldstein

As a postdoc at Rice University (2000-2003), Goldstein’s job was to interpret and model the brand-new space weather data being obtained by the IMAGE satellite (launched in March 2000).

The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales

The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales was the final collection of short stories published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime, appearing in 1852.

Vietnamese poetry

Imagery, or the use of words to create images, is another fundamental aspect of Vietnamese poetry.


Acousmatic sound

More recently, in the article Space-form and the acousmatic image (2007), composer and academic Prof. Denis Smalley has expanded on some of Schaeffers' acousmatic concepts.

Adrian Steirn

The unique perspective of each image is obtained by his choice of lens, aperture, ISO and composition whilst preserving the integrity of the original image.

Agustín Leonardo

In 1620 he was a brother in the convent of that order at Puig near Valencia, where he painted for the sacristy four large canvases: Finding the Image of Our Lady at Puig, Siege and Surrender of Valencia to King James; and the Battle of the Puig in which St. George fought with Christians.

Annapoorneshwari Temple

The single image is of the Goddess Annapoorneshwari standing on a peeta with Shanku, Chakra, Sri Chakra and Devi Gayathri in her four hands.

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

The Museum of Contemporary Photography stated the book "captures the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls," particularly praising an image entitled 'Candy Cigarette'.

Austin Gunsel

In 1952, Gunsel was hired by the NFL to head the league's investigative department, a move made in response to commissioner Bert Bell's fear of a scandal damaging the league's image.

Ceci n'est pas un conte

In the image of the painting The Treachery of Images by René Magritte, Diderot wants to tell us that a person's behavior is not in itself moral or immoral.

Centre for the Moving Image

The Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) is a registered charity incorporating Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Edinburgh Film Guild.

Choshi Electric Railway 1000 series

DeHa 1002 was repainted into a new orange and blue livery in 2007 designed by Tetsuko no Tabi writer Naoe Kikuchi, intended to evoke an image of the sun rising across the sea.

Coyotes in popular culture

The cartoon coyote Wilber is the official mascot for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free raster graphics editor.

Crysis 3

After Crysis 2 received some criticism from many PC gamers because of the apparent design sacrifices made due to the limitations of the older console hardware, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated that the PC version of Crysis 3 will figuratively "melt down PCs" due to its highest image quality system requirements.

Digital Pictures

Although the film boasted stars such as Yasmine Bleeth and Walter Koenig, they only appear in the segments that had been pulled from the FMV sequences of the game, which suffer from lower image quality than the original footage.

Dispersive prism

The image of a dispersive prism was featured on the album cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums of all time.

GraphicConverter

The application features a batch processor, slideshow mode, image preview browser, and access to metadata comments (such as XMP, Exif, and IPTC).

Image file formats

Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) specification is an attempt at standardizing a raw image format to be used by cameras, or for archival storage of image data converted from undocumented raw image formats, and is used by several niche and minority camera manufacturers including Pentax, Leica, and Samsung.

Image geometry correction

Special care must be taken in the design of the scaling filter to ensure that spatial frequencies remain balanced in all areas of the image, and that the Nyquist criterion is met in all areas of the image.

Ingemar Cox

In 1999, he was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Area) for a paper he co-authored on watermarking.

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

In 2007, the Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band VIS Idoli released a career spanning box set featuring the image as a basis for the box set cover.

Kerala Cricket Association

Instead of the star in the crest, a stylised image of Imperial Insignia of Sree Padmanabha's Shankha, which was the state emblem of the Kingdom of Travancore as well as state emblem of the State of Kerala, is used.

Limbo of the Lost

Other content appears to have been taken from live-action films, including a scene and dialogue from the 1997 film Spawn, an image from Beetlejuice, another from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and several more from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Love Comes Quickly

The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys image.

Mickey's Choo-Choo

The cartoon ends with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation.

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Modelnomics

An economic assessment of the highly controversial issue of body image within the global fashion industry, along the lines of Alfred Marshall's supply-demand model.

Munna Bhai

He begins, thereafter to see the image of Mahatma Gandhi who persuades him to stop pretending he is a professor and who teaches him to help other people solve their problems through Gandhism, which Munna Bhai terms Gandhigiri.

Ozalid process

It is also used for proofing, as it produces an image very close to the finished work.

Passage SAS

Since 1983, yachtsmen such as Philippe Jeantot, Florence Arthaud and Pierre Follenfant have been equipped with TBS anti-slip products, thus contributing to the promotion of the image of TBS anti-slip in the field of racing.

Pierre Cartellier

Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.

Pronatura

The logo, which represents a Horned Guan, was 'modernized' in 2006, due to the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pronatura, keeping the Horned Guan, but giving it a more stylized image.

Sandin Image Processor

The Sandin Image Processor is a video synthesizer, usually introduced as the "video equivalent of a Moog audio synthesizer," invented by Dan Sandin.

Sara García

Known as "Mexican Cinema's Grandmother", García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelita chocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.

Savvas Chamberlain

During his time at the University of Waterloo, he invented many silicon image sensors, introduced new technology on MOSFET and Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) devices, and developed some fundamental theories.

Standing Buddha

The earliest known image of the Buddha with approximate indications on date is the Bimaran casket, which has been found buried with coins of the Indo-Scythian king Azes II (or possibly Azes I), indicating a 30-10 BCE date, although this date is not undisputed.

Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

Helmsman Hikaru Sulu fires a barrage of four torpedoes at what appears to be a false image of the Romulan vessel.

Steal This Record

Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording, Inc. in Hollywood, California

Sticky-shed syndrome

Dr. John Van Bogart at the National Media Laboratory has recommended the process, as well as the tape manufacturer Ampex, the sound recording industry magazine, Mix, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the American Folklife Center and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Taliana Vargas

She has been the image of various well-known brands in her homeland such as L'Oréal Paris Elvive, Studio F, Nestlé and appeared in many publications.

Terragen

An image from what is now known as Terragen Classic appeared on the April 16, 2001 cover of Newsweek, and Terragen was used for animations in Brandy Norwood's "What About Us?" music video.

The Artemis Complex

The cover was designed by photo artist Kim Lauer, and depicts a heavily manipulated image of the Greek goddess Artemis.

Thematic image

Thematic images are usually image products of classification processing of multispectral images of the earth surface.

Tim Uppal

In April 2010 Uppal was involved in a controversy with Canadian Gemini-winning filmmaker, Ali Kazimi, when a Tory campaign ad was launched using a copyrighted image.

Tom Cruise Purple

American lawyer Lisa Bloom commented that it would not be prudent for Cruise to sue over the product, and public relations writer Howard Bragman stated it was not a good idea from a legal standpoint to utilize Cruise's image in such a fashion.

TUME

One, it copied the keyboard layout of Deluxe Paint, the most popular image editing software at the time.

Venus Anadyomene

Such a highly conventionalized theme, with undertones of eroticism justified by its mythological context, was ripe for modernist deconstruction; in 1870 Arthur Rimbaud evoked the image of a portly Clara Venus ("famous Venus") with all-too-human blemishes (déficits) in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature: La graisse sous la peau paraît en feuilles plates (the fat under the skin appears in slabs).

Virgin of Los Remedios

This image was center of one of the first annual processions to be held in Mexico, which went from the Church of Santa Veracruz in Mexico City to her home sanctuary in Los Remedios National Park.

Wat Phra Kaew

Continuing with the legend of the saint Nagasena of India, after remaining in Pataliputra (present day Patna) for three hundred years, the Emerald Buddha image was taken to Sri Lanka to save it from a civil war.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.

William David Smith

Yaroslav Senyshyn will be releasing two of his Images ("Image" 1 and 2, Op. 33) on the Albany Records label in a 'live' album along with Susan O'Neill-Senyshyn (flautist).

Zmodeler

This method, however, does affect the output quality because no post-processing, such as anti-aliasing, is performed on the final image.


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