Optical Play

Author : Julia Bekman Chadaga
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810167883
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Play written by Julia Bekman Chadaga and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlist finalist, 2015 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History Julia Bekman Chadaga’s ambitious study posits that glass—in its uses as a material and as captured in culture—is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century onward. From the contemporary perspective, it is easy to overlook how glass has profoundly transformed vision. Chadaga shows the far-reaching effects of this phenomenon. Her book examines the similarities between glass and language, the ideological uses of glass, and the material’s associations with modernity, while illuminating the work of Lomonosov, Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, and Eisenstein, among others. In particular, Chadaga explores the prominent role of glass in the discourse around Russia’s contentious relationship with the West—by turns admiring and antagonistic—as the nation crafted a vision for its own future. Chadaga returns throughout to the spectacular aspect of glass and shows how both the tendentious capacity and the playfulness of this material have shaped Russian culture.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402733383
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Illusion Play Pack written by Martin Gardner and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives kids the opportunity to play with the images. This pack also includes punch-out cards that enhance every illusion, plus a vinyl pouch for safely storing the cards afterwards. It helps children figure out if the two differently shaped tables in a picture are actually the same size, by laying a checkered tablecloth over them both.

Author : Meredith A. Bak
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262358050
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playful Visions written by Meredith A. Bak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.

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Total Pages : 1866 pages
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Author : Joshua Yumibe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813552982
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book Moving Color written by Joshua Yumibe and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes—most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were remarkably beautiful. Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces the legacy of color history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century. Looking forward, he explores the implications of this genealogy on experimental and contemporary digital cinemas in which many colors have become, once again, vividly unhinged from photographic reality. Throughout this history, Moving Color revolves around questions pertaining to the sensuousness of color: how color moves us in the cinema—visually, emotionally, and physically.

Author : Sulaiman Wadi Harun
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839626143
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Application of Optical Fiber in Engineering written by Sulaiman Wadi Harun and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Application of Optical Fiber in Engineering chronicles the recent progress in the research and development of optical fiber technology and examines present and future opportunities by presenting the latest advances on key topics such as birefringence and polarization mode dispersion characteristics, quantum communication, polymer optical fiber grating, optical fiber sensing devices and the Raman fiber laser. All the contributing authors are experts in the field, and this book contains their latest research. This book will provide an invaluable source for researchers, engineers, and advanced students in the field of optical fibers, photonics, optoelectronics, fiber lasers, and sensors.

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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Optical Amplifier Technology & Systems written by and published by Information Gatekeepers Inc. This book was released on with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 864 pages
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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mário Fernando Santos Ferreira
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0443184941
Total Pages : 541 pages
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Download or read book Specialty Optical Fibers written by Mário Fernando Santos Ferreira and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-02-17 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specialty Optical Fibers reviews theoretical and experimental photonic research relevant to the synthesis, processing, characterization, modeling, physical features, and applications of Specialty Optical Fibers (SOFs) with significant technological impact potential. All fiber-based advanced photonics device components rely on specialty optical fibers, which have either a unique waveguide structure or a novel material composition. High power optical amplifiers, high power fiber, and novel fabrication techniques for optical fiber design have enabled significant technological advances. The book provides discussion on these applications including current research directions, future opportunities and remaining challenges.Specialty Optical Fibers is suitable for researchers in academia and practitioners in R&D working in the subject areas of materials science, electrical engineering, and fiber optics. Includes an overview of specialty optical fiber materials design and fabrication technologies Reviews fundamentals of the most relevant optical fiber materials, including their physics, chemistry, and optoelectronics principles Explores current research directions and future opportunities and challenges of utilization of optical fibers for a wide range of diverse applications

Author : Philip C. D. Hobbs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111943906X
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Electro-Optical Systems written by Philip C. D. Hobbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Electro-Optical Systems In the newly revised third edition of Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work, renowned Dr. Philip C. D. Hobbs delivers a birds-eye view of all the topics you’ll need to understand for successful optical instrument design and construction. The author draws on his own work as an applied physicist and consultant with over a decade of experience in designing and constructing electro-optical systems from beginning to end. The book’s topics are chosen to allow readers in a variety of disciplines and fields to quickly and confidently decide whether a given device or technique is appropriate for their needs. Using accessible prose and intuitive organization, Building Electro-Optical Systems remains one of the most practical and solution-oriented resources available to graduate students and professionals. The newest edition includes comprehensive revisions that reflect progress in the field of electro-optical instrument design and construction since the second edition was published. It also offers approximately 350 illustrations for visually oriented learners. Readers will also enjoy: A thorough introduction to basic optical calculations, including wave propagation, detection, coherent detection, and interferometers Practical discussions of sources and illuminators, including radiometry, continuum sources, incoherent line sources, lasers, laser noise, and diode laser coherence control Explorations of optical detection, including photodetection in semiconductors and signal-to-noise ratios Full treatments of lenses, prisms, and mirrors, as well as coatings, filters, and surface finishes, and polarization Perfect for graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, optics, and optical engineering, Building Electro-Optical Systems is also an ideal resource for professional designers working in optics, electro-optics, analog electronics, and photonics.