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Polarized light
by Collett, Edward, Goldstein, Dennis H.
fromOptical engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.)
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Type: Book
Photographic lighting is a topic that will never go out of style, no matter how sophisticated cameras and other technology get. Even with the most high-tech gear, photographers still need to put a lot of thought and vision into lighting their photographs in order to get great re…
"This is the brief story, from Leonardo to Oppenheimer, of what we know about light as we enter the last decade of 500 light years of exploration, from the perception of the subject during the Renaissance to the revolution spawned by the laser and optical fibers."--Introduction.
From the Publisher: Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function. Over the years, their distinctive physical characteristics have invited as much study as imitation. Their clean, unadorned li…
Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function. Over the years, their distinctive physical characteristics have invited as much study as imitation. Their clean, unadorned lines have been said t…
"Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec; use it for quantum telecomm…
Part Section I History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy -- chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham's Scientic Research Programme -- chapter 2 Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology -- chapter 3 From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason:…
"This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality…
Explains how the human brain interprets the visual world around us, as well as the subject of visually communicating the form of an object in easy to understand lessons through the use of drawings, photography, and more.