X-Nico

unusual facts about Projection-valued measure


Quantum nondemolition measurement

Even for ideal, "first-kind" projective measurements in which the particle is in the measured eigenstate immediately after the measurement, the subsequent free evolution of the particle will cause uncertainty in position to quickly grow.


A Practical Guide to Astral Projection

A Practical Guide to Astral Projection is an EP and the second studio record by American rock band The Nymphs.

Antonia Scarpa

Scarpa and Moni Ritchie founded the multimedia rock group “The Drummed” (which also featured Rob Campanella of The Quarter After and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Christian Hejnal of Scarling.) Scarpa played drums, and synthesizers as well as creating a visual projection show for the bands performances.

Arnaud Courlet de Vregille

"Following a very contemporary trend, an expression of the point of view of one art on another, which resumes here in an independant vision the wonder of new discovery", a portrait of the Lumière brothers : Lumière ou Projection privée (Light or Private projection), is exhibited in l'Eden Théâtre de La Ciotat.

Azimuthal equidistant projection

The flag of the United Nations contains an example of a polar azimuthal equidistant projection.

Blink comparator

The Projection Blink Comparator (PROBLICOM), invented by amateur astronomer Ben Mayer, was a low-cost version of the professional tool.

Bonne projection

Although named after Rigobert Bonne (1727–1795), the projection was in use prior to his birth, in 1511 by Sylvano, Honter in 1561, De l'Isle before 1700 and Coronelli in 1696.

Centered in the Universe

The 33-minute planetarium program utilizes a Zeiss Universarium star projector and an innovative laser video projection system developed by Evans & Sutherland to create an immersive environment.

Chautauqua Cinema

The Chautauqua Cinema has 35mm and digital projection, Dolby Digital sound and seats 350 people.

Daphne Hampson

Prompted by Luce Irigaray's building on the thought of Feuerbach, Hampson came to hold that religious thought-structures are a masculinist projection, both reflecting and serving to legitimise male superordination; and thus a form of fascism.

Edward Nassour

In 1946 the Nassours purchased a four acre lot on Sunset Boulevard and built a studio complex featuring four stages, a projection room, dressing rooms, and offices.

Eric Boon

This was achieved on Baird projection equipment using a 16-inch projection tube running at 45,000 volts, producing light levels comparable to that of normal films.

Gall stereographic projection

The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is cylindrical projection.

Gall–Peters projection

The Gall–Peters projection was first described in 1855 by clergyman James Gall, who presented it along with two other projections at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (the BA).

The Gall–Peters projection, named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection.

Goode homolosine projection

The projection was developed in 1923 by John Paul Goode to provide an alternative to the Mercator projection for portraying global areal relationships.

Hayden Planetarium

It is accompanied by a digital dome projection system that provides a 3-D visualization of the universe based on images generated in real time by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer.

High frame rate

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, beginning with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in December 2012, used a shooting and projection frame rate of 48 frames per second, becoming the first feature film with a wide release to do so.

History of the Jews in Australia

Printmaker and projection artist Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack graduate and professor of the Bauhaus was deported to Australia as an "enemy alien" on the ship HMT Dunera, spending time in internment camps in Hay, Orange and Tatura, before being sponsored for Australian citizenship by (Sir) James Darling, headmaster of Geelong Church of England Grammar School.

Hoxton Hall

The peak oil projection is based on Richard Heinberg's book The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies.

Johann Zahn

This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses.

John Hansard Gallery

This interprets his experiences through image manipulation, staging, CGI, 3d scanning, 3d printing and new projection techniques.

John Scolvus

Primarily, a 1536 globe of cartographer Gemma Frisius depicts an area within the Arctic Circle, north of a strait dividing Terra Corterealis and Baccalearum Regio from the westward projection of Greenland.

Kagnew Station

The Roosevelt Theatre seated 320 patrons and was equipped with a CinemaScope screen and the latest sound and projection equipment.

Katerina Jebb

Givenchy, Paris, “Unidentified N°35”, video projection and large scale human photocopy (2007)

Kichha

Both of these cinemas are equipped with Digital cinema projection systems and are connected to the servers of UFO Moviez, a Digital Cinema initiative located in Mumbai directly through satellite.

Lake County Discovery Museum

The archives also holds the Amet/Essany Studios Collection, covering the career and works of Waukegan native Edward Amet, a pioneer in 35mm motion picture projection.

Loew's Jersey Theatre

Work is currently underway to install 70 mm projection equipment, as well as Dolby Digital, DTS, and 6-track magnetic sound.

Marintia Escobedo

In 1987 she became the first host of a show called Proyeccion 2000 (Projection 2000); later on, she was called to host an entertainment segment in Noticias ECO, a project that would air twenty four hours, seven days a week all over the world.

Mercator Ice Piedmont

The ice piedmont was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Flemish mathematician and geographer Gerardus Mercator, the originator, in 1568, of the map projection which bears his name.

Miguel de la Madrid

With this, the presence of the Economic Culture Fund acquired a larger projection in the Americas: September 7 of the same year the subsidiary in San Diego, California was founded, the June 21, 1991 Seller Azteca opened its doors in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1994 FCE facilities were inaugurated in Venezuela, and in 1998 another subsidiary was established in Guatemala.

Mollweide projection

The projection was first published by mathematician and astronomer Karl (or Carl) Brandan Mollweide (1774 – 1825) of Leipzig in 1805.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Her two-channel video projection Empire of the Senseless Part II (2006) is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

NewDealDesign

Starting in small offices in the SOMA district of San Francisco, NewDealDesign’s first products were a PC for the computer maker MicronPC and a ViewSonic 36” Rear-projection television.

Orthographic projection

In about 14 BC, Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio used the projection to construct sundials and to compute sun positions.

Polyvision

Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon.

Raoul Grimoin-Sanson

In 1897, he patented the Cinéorama, a panoramic film projection system involving ten synchronized projectors.

Robinson projection

The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general purpose world maps since that time.

Saville Theatre

The Beatles borrowed the Saville to make their "Hello, Goodbye" promo (an early music video) in November 1967, and on 8 December 1967, Yoko Ono performed her The Fog Machine: Music of the Mind there, which included a projection of her film Bottoms (Film No. 4) in the men's room during the concert.

Shdwan Battle

The Battle lasted between the Israeli battalion and the Sa'ka Officers which led to casualties in the Israeli forces which includes projection of 2 jets.

Similarity score

Baseball Prospectus employs a projection system developed by Nate Silver known as PECOTA which applies nearest neighbor analysis to calculate similarities between players from different eras.

Southgate, West Sussex

Park Lodge has been considerably altered but retains the character of a "late Victorian red-brick villa"; Masons Hall is later (1905) and "rather eccentric", resembling a Tuscan villa and featuring a campanile-style projection at one corner.

Space-oblique Mercator projection

The space-oblique Mercator projection (SOM) was developed by John P. Snyder, Alden Partridge Colvocoresses and John L. Junkins in 1976.

Strictness analysis

Projection-based strictness analysis, introduced by Philip Wadler and R.J.M. Hughes, uses strictness projections to model more subtle forms of strictness, such as head-strictness in a list argument.

The Evidence of the Film

The only known copy of this film was rediscovered in 1999 on the floor of the projection booth in a Superior, Montana movie theater.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is, on many counts, the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him.

Thomas Armat

They made their first public projection using their invention, named Phantascope after an earlier model designed by Jenkins alone, in September 1895 at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.

Westminster Rose Center

Video systems currently consist of LCD projection screen located upstage of the main curtain with VHS, DVD, VGA, Betacam SP, High-8, Mini-DV and universal BNC inputs.

Zaven Paré

He drew the circular video projection screens for the 1990 David Bowie tour and designed a sound installation for Mauricio Kagel in 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.


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