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CONTENTS Textures that Fool
No full textMy project is called Textures that Fool, which is an investigation into the use of impostering. It was produced by myself, Alex Sawczuk during April 2007, with the assistance of my tutor Roger Hubbold The general purpose of my project was to see if there is any noticeable loss of image quality when using a technique called Impostering. Impostering is a form of level of detail [A9], which replaces the original geometry by a much simplified version of the original. Impostering in particular makes gains by using a very simple geometric model, and texturing this by rendering the original object in real time, and saving this texture and mapping it to the imposter. The key aims of my project are to see if there are any graphical differences between a scene using imposterin
Roger Abrahams, author
No full textRoger Abrahams, director of the African and Afro-American Research Institute at the University of Texas-Austin and author of Positively Black, argues the case for ethnic diversity in this interview. He also discusses that the idea of "new ethnicity" is not restricted to black or brown America and he sees a widespread return to old mores inherent in the traditional ethnic value system. Interviewed by WTMJ-TV host Jim Peck.GrayscaleSoun
Unlucky for Some : 13 poems by Roger McGough
No full textInspired by and featuring the poetry of Roger McGough (by permission of the author), Unlucky for Some is a spare, minimalistic work about homelessness, mental illness and class division performed entirely in slow motion.\ud
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This multimedia work also utilised prerecorded and live feed video and music, and experimented with synchronous and asynchonous live and mediatised performance
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
A Conversation with Roger Welsch
No full textIn this session, moderated by Barre Toelken and William A. "Bert" Wilson, audience members have the opportunity to discuss Roger Welsch's plenary lecture, and his other works and ideas, with the author
Amplifying head movements with head-mounted displays
No full textThe head-mounted display (HMD) is a popular form of virtual display due to its ability to immerse users visually in virtual environments (VEs). Unfortunately, the user's virtual experience is compromised by the narrow field of view (FOV) it affords, which is less than half that of normal human vision. This paper explores a solution to some of the problems caused by the narrow FOV by amplifying the head movement made by the user when wearing an HMD, so that the view direction changes by a greater amount in the virtual world than it does in the real world Tests conducted on the technique show a significant improvement in performance on a visual search task, and questionnaire data indicate that the altered visual parameters that the user receives may be preferable to those in the baseline condition in which amplification of movement was not implemented. The tests also show that the user cannot interact normally with the VE if corresponding body movements are not amplified to the same degree as head movements, which may limit the implementation's versatility. Although not suitable for every application, the technique shows promise, and alterations to aspects of the implementation could extend its use in the future
A Multi Modal Table-Top 3D Modeling Tool in Augmented Environments
No full textEven with today's highly sophisticated 3D modeling programs, creating, assembling and adapting 3D models is still a big challenge for inexperienced users. In this paper we present our approach of an intuitive table-top 3D modeling tool in Augmented Reality. It allows the author to view 3D virtual objects within his natural working environment, to manipulate them and to create new 3D elements easily. The offered interaction techniques support the author's activity by a combination of tangible user interfaces with voice recognition, a gaze-based view pointer and 3D widgets as components of a multi modal user interface. Within the scope of this work, intuitive interaction techniques were realized to offer the participants an easy way of working within an augmented environment. User tests were performed to compare our approach to a WIMP-based desktop application and to an alternative AR modeling application.Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environment
Spoken language reference materials
No full textContent of the CD distributed with the Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems. Edited by Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski. Published by Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton delivers last of 'Democracy and Moral Conviction' lectures
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to Roger Scruton, author of The Meaning of Conservatism and Arguments for Conservatism, lecture on 'Freedom of Religion' at Vanderbilt Law School on April 16, 2007. The lecture was the fourth and last of the 'Democracy and Moral Conviction' lecture series.
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