Sentences with word «mapmaking»

(Terra incognita is a term from mapmaking.

Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years.

Federal drought experts found that parts of California descended into «exceptional» drought last week for the first time in 15 years of drought mapmaking by the federal government.

The prolific New Criterion contributor Jeremy Black's new book Mapping Shakespeare is a delightful exploration of the trends in mapmaking and their contribution to Shakespeare's plays, which, geographically, reached far indeed from Stratford - upon - Avon.

Chart your progress through the dungeons - Etrian Odyssey's innovative mapmaking tool returns with more options and features!

These works bear a strong resemblance to urban mapmaking and are reminders of the segmented way we think about, and experience, urban space.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

From album covers to typographical mapmaking, Scher's whimsical style carries with it an immense power to form identity systems, namely combinations of sensibility, spirit and meaning that form communities and entire ways of thought.

But paradoxically, the age of exploration that followed the creation of the portolan charts eventually led to their downfall, as increasingly sophisticated techniques of shipbuilding and mapmaking made them obsolete.

Mapmaking appealed to White as one of the «oldest forms of graphic design,» he says.

6 THE BODY IN THE MIND Because brain maps are the substrate of mental images, mapmaking brains have the power of literally introducing the body as content into the mind.

Although the tedium of extra screen tasks such as mapmaking and the lackluster story may do a disservice to the overall pacing, the intricate gameplay and strategy focussed battle system make up for the majority of its missteps.

«The Young & Prodigious Spivet» Synopsis: A 12 - year - old mapmaking enthusiast from an eccentric family goes on an extraordinary cross-country journey after being invited to the Smithsonian Institute.

Every night, Baba tells Nour a story, whether it's about the fig tree in the backyard of his childhood home in Syria, or about Rawiya, the girl who disguised herself as a boy so she could learn mapmaking from the master, al - Idrisi, hundreds of years ago.

Immense number of characters and weapons, fantastic large and small levels, and a fully customizable and mapmaking system.

Halo 4's mapmaking Forge tools are being created by Austin - based Crimson Alliance developer Certain Affinity, representatives from the studio announced at the Rooster Teeth Expo today.

Highlight — drawing routes for your steamboat and marking islands and secrets for further exploration with the DS stylus was a perfect blend of old - school mapmaking and innovative technology.

Beyond combat which echoed the thorny turn - based battles of Wizardry, the game also simulated pen - and paper mapmaking.

I've also been a scholar at MIT Media Lab for the past couple of years, where I've explored interactive mapmaking, printed circuited boards, and [examined] the analytics of my art.

However, each describes a landscape shaped by human presences and absences, whether of staged sets, the literature of fantasy, adolescent mythmaking, or adult mapmaking.

Nine contemporary international artists question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking.

Historically — using materials such as rock, parchment, and paper — mapmaking combines aesthetics, science, and design to communicate a particular topography that may be physical, abstract, or even mythological.

Though technically Bradford's first solo show in LA in some 15 years, then - new works were presented at the Hammer Museum in 2015, tracing the evolution of his use of body imagery, as blood vessels and skin became heavily worked and transposed with emotional mapmaking of urban centers; and where in the lobby hidden histories uncovered with sandpaper conflated the architectural and artistic palimpsest of the site with an historical scheme of societal response to the AIDS epidemic.

Get your free copy there or download it here!The Green Map System (GMS) is a locally adaptable, globally shared framework for environmental mapmaking.

Your support builds the organizational, technical and network - wide capacity that cultivates effective local leadership and robust mapmaking projects.

With the leadership of Action for Change's Mike & Enid Trevett, the youth and community have collaborated on several different kinds of Green Mapmaking workshops and events.

The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top - down model that ignores children's interests.

After enlisting in the Marine Corps Officer Training Program in summer 1943, Diebenkorn was assigned to a base 30 miles from Washington, D.C., where he became involved in mapmaking and cartography.

Garfield's interest in the human side of mapmaking — the personalities, anecdotes, curiosities — is what makes On the Map such an enjoyable read.Garfield's 22...

Developmentally appropriate environmental education, place - based education, inquiry science, mapmaking with children, cognitive development and developmental theory, school improvement, children and nature, and parenting with nature.

Such a stable foundation can facilitate their mapmaking: the connectedness that they are charting in their brains, in relation to other people, in in their emerging worldview.»

But Republicans controlled the mapmaking process last cycle, carving a favorable map for their party that included fewer opportunities for Democrats.

The person who made this document — the first so - called portolan chart, from the Italian word portolano, meaning «a collection of sailing directions» — spawned a new era of mapmaking and oceanic exploration.

This mapmaking technique, though it stretched and compressed landmarks and distances between them, had the great advantage that a straight compass course was represented by a straight line on the map.

This curiosity arises because of cognitive mapmaking, which is different from regular mapmaking.

Geographers have traditionally studied how the natural environment contributes to human society and vice versa, whereas cartographers have focused more explicitly on the art and science of mapmaking.

That mapmaking visionary of epidemiology, John Snow, would be proud.

It's already obvious how useful GPS is in discrete applications, for surveying and mapmaking, for tracking commercial vehicles, for maritime and aeronautic navigation, for emergency rescue crews and archaeologists.

Mapmaking — make a weather map.

The lessons of mapmaking and «discovery» apply, of course; unmapped and unexplored regions are often very much alive with culture and history.

One day, T.S. Spivet gets a phone call from the Smithsonian Institution, informing him that he has won a national award for his mapmaking and will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming celebration in Washington.

Garfield's interest in the human side of mapmaking — the personalities, anecdotes, curiosities — is what makes On the Map such an enjoyable read.

Another one of the series» key differentiating features, mapmaking, comes back in strides in Etrian Odyssey IV.

Comber is inspired by mapmaking and creates visual icons of memories.

Using artistic and interdisciplinary research methods, mapmaking is subverted into an open and critical medium to produce visual representations of space, temporality, politics and human relationships.

By subverting the conventions of mapmaking, the seventy - five artists in «Contemporary Cartographies» imagine new ways of organizing the world.

Curatorial exploration and mapmaking, at its best, investigates what is communicated through an exhibition's topography.