Sentences with phrase «scale model world»
The contest is open now and will run until October 15, a chance to contribute to a scale model world for space exploration that, Tibor hopes, will help to promote public interest and funding for future ventures.
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Ecommerce companies should be taking feverish notes: A recent demonstration of AR technology by Florida - based startup Magic Leap showed one way retailers might integrate AR technology into an e-commerce environment: The demonstration showed how a user could superimpose virtual models of lamps and other room décor atop a real - world dresser, with the digital objects shown to scale, to help the user determine how those items might look within the space.
This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments.
While the image of the large homogenized denomination is of little use in modeling the unity of the church on a world scale, this version of conciliarity has, I think, considerable potential as a model for what we might eventually seek at the global level.
Highlights include a six - story replica of Herod's Temple faÇade; the largest indoor - scale model of first - century Jerusalem in the world; costumed characters; and multimedia, multisensory presentations recreating scenes from the Old and New Testament.
This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.
Helbing has proposed a large - scale computing program that would attempt to model global - scale systems and so «would effectively serve as the world's crystal ball.»
String theory is a popular shot at bringing together two disparate scales — the tiny world of quantum particles, where the standard model holds sway, and the cosmic distances over which gravity acts.
Thus, the model behaves the way the world does — albeit at a very rough scale.
A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.
Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world — the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno — Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.
Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be used on a global scale and can prevent the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.
These quantifications might further help, and indeed convince, decision - makers across the world to decide on wide - scale introduction of prediction models and risk - based management for cardiovascular disease.»
Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world - the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno - Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.
Reactor enables evaluation of reactive materials for solar ‑ thermochemical hydrogen production under real ‑ world conditions, and provides a learning platform for up - scaling technology as well as model validation.
The study used IIASA's GAINS model, along with emissions reports from countries, to calculate sulfur dioxide emissions for the entire world on a detailed regional scale.
Several featurettes cover every aspect of Peak «s world particularly «A Living Thing» which sees the sets of Allerdale Hall worked and reworked from scale models to the final product over a five month period.
«Characters» goes into their design, «Environments» talks about the scale of the world (complete with footage of a hamster in a model city), and «Animation» addresses the movement (with our only glimpses of Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin recording lines).
Inside, through a small lobby, past a few large - scale creature models and around a series of corners that feel like entering some secret world is just that — the set for the top - secret military installation that is one of the main locations for «The Shape of Water.»
After an auspicious start with small - scale gangster pulp (the «Pusher» trilogy) and stylish portraits of brutal men («Bronson,» «Valhalla Rising»), Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has turned to the world of wispy ingénue models in Los Angeles for his latest, «The Neon Demon.»
As a result, although scaling Station Rotation and Flipped Classroom models might not be the most exciting thing in the world — nor might it create models in which students have the maximum amount of personalization in and agency and ownership over their learning — in the next several years, the scaling of these models is both an important step forward and likely to be where the action is in mainstream subjects.
This project is well suited to contribute to this need by not only sharing the latest science regarding child development and play but also building the capacity of selected programs to refine, systematize, and scale the TSM model for sector - level influence world - wide.
Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.
1939: A scale model diorama of Norman Bel Geddes» vision for an automated highway system highlights the Futurama ride in the General Motors pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
While most Vision Gran Turismo concepts were developed exclusively for the pixelated world of Gran Turismo, some were built as full - scale models, and only a small fraction had an actual drivetrain.
The museum contains several recreated worlds from various highlights of Belize's history, complete with facades of buildings built to scale and model humans and props situated to make you feel like you are literally walking through Belize's past.
We will also be lucky enough to have 9 full - scale Vision GT Cars and 2 1/4 size models present at the event, which is a world first!
It's not just artistically the game does well, mind you, on a technical level the game also impresses with plenty of detail packed into character models and vast draw distances lending the world a sense of scale via some impressive vistas, even though you are kept to a fairly linear path, a path which happens to also feature warning messages should you stray a bit too far and invisible walls that you can bang your noggin off of, somewhat ruining the nice illusion of wandering through the wilderness.
Players can experience their dream vehicles in AR in life - size or model scale, and place their car virtually in real - world environments.
Because it pushed the Wii to its limits, sacrifices were made in character models and textures so the scale of the gargantuan world could be fully realized.
The key to VR is immersion and scale and despite the graphics basically being that of vanilla Skyrim, once you're wandering about that massive world and discovering all that it has to offer, the sense of inhabiting Skyrim easily trumps the last gen textures and character models.
Where the first The Crew had the ambition and scope to transplant a racing game into a scaled down open world approximation of the United States, so many things didn't sit right with me, from the handling model to the overly serious story tacked onto it.
Modeling to scale lends legibility to the material world through proportionate representations, while time - scales provide a tangible framework for durations beyond our immediate experience.
Rather than describing the material world through models and representations, the artists in the exhibition work directly with matter, engaging processes that record material interactions while pointing to scales beyond the works.
But there are numerous other art schools around the world that have also made enormous impacts on the history of art, yielding generations of exalted alumni, boasting world - class faculty, and operating on a totally different scale and historical timeframe from schools of the U.S. model.
The museum, which Mr. Krens first considered developing in China, would feature one of the world's largest working systems of O scale model trains, with perhaps 100 in operation at one time and a control room that «would look like something from NASA,» he said.
Paintings, sculptures, scale - models, furniture, posters, films, typographical designs and magazines illustrate the lively international world of art in which various disciplines became increasingly more interwoven.
Artist Tom Sachs discusses how this iconic figure entered his sculptural world, beginning with a Barneys department store Hello Kitty nativity scene and later appearing as large - scale models in bronze, foamcore, and other materials, joined by friends Miffy and My Melody.
A multimedia artist, previous works include Untitled (Ghardaïa)(2009), a scale model made from couscous, of the North African town that was an inspiration to architect Le Corbusier and a major installation at the art survey dOCUMENTA (13), in 2012, where he juxtaposed images of wounded soldiers from World War I with re-appropriated African masks, suggesting a connection between physical healing and cultural reconstruction, both of which are processes of repair.
This exhibition features scale models of expansion projects undertaken by six world - recognized Ontario cultural institutions including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Opera Company, Canada's National Ballet School, Royal Conservatory of Music, Royal Ontario Museum and Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Novelist Michael Chabon, who is chairman of the MacDowell Colony, described Saar's work as «scale models» that are «inescapably recognizable as our own broken world... mapping it with fierceness, a sense of play and... wild accuracy.»
Song Dong (CHN), The Centre of the World 1 September - 29 October For Aarhus 2017, Kunsthal Aarhus presents the major solo exhibition, Collaborations, by renowned Chinese artist, Song Dong, which begins with making an edible replica of the City of Aarhus and a public performance where citizens of Aarhus will be able to — literally — eat a large scale model of the city made from biscuits.
The museum itself was founded in 1972, and has among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a room - sized scale model of the five boroughs originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and repeatedly updated since then.
Even as she revels in the flexible uniformity of stainless steel (a favorite material), the uneven contours of the natural world in the form of sand, water, and stone are never far afield; both impulses are on view in her Rock Dispenser / model for outdoor sculpture, a smaller - scale iteration of an 8 - foot - tall sculpture first made in 2010.
For Kiefer, Khlebnikov's 317 - year cycle is useful in that it allows him to depict these broken 20th - century vessels in the light of naval engagements, long sea journeys, shipping losses and the battles of the past - in short, to acknowledge both the human and the historical scale of past events, and their place in our larger models of the world.
Greyscale screen - prints of homes, upon further inspection, reveal themselves to be pictures of full - scale models of Japanese and German civilian domiciles built during World War II to test the effectiveness of explosives.
One Foot in the Real World 12 October — Spring 2014 One Foot in the Real World is an opportunity to see some of the most important works in the IMMA Collection by some of the world's leading contemporary artists, including two iconic site - specific works; Still Falling I by Antony Gormley, and Dublin Rain Room, 1994 by Juan Muñoz; a scale model of one of the gallery spaces where it perpetually rains indWorld 12 October — Spring 2014 One Foot in the Real World is an opportunity to see some of the most important works in the IMMA Collection by some of the world's leading contemporary artists, including two iconic site - specific works; Still Falling I by Antony Gormley, and Dublin Rain Room, 1994 by Juan Muñoz; a scale model of one of the gallery spaces where it perpetually rains indWorld is an opportunity to see some of the most important works in the IMMA Collection by some of the world's leading contemporary artists, including two iconic site - specific works; Still Falling I by Antony Gormley, and Dublin Rain Room, 1994 by Juan Muñoz; a scale model of one of the gallery spaces where it perpetually rains indworld's leading contemporary artists, including two iconic site - specific works; Still Falling I by Antony Gormley, and Dublin Rain Room, 1994 by Juan Muñoz; a scale model of one of the gallery spaces where it perpetually rains indoors.
The leaded gas adventurers have profitably polluted the world on a grand scale and, in the process, have provided a model for the asbestos, tobacco, pesticide and nuclear power industries, and other twentieth - century corporate bad actors, for evading clear evidence that their products are harmful by hiding behind the mantle of scientific uncertainty.
For the future, data assimilation might help us to keep the state of a climate model closer to the real world's, allowing us to improve predictions on seasonal and decadal time scales.
Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).