2D CGI was first used in movies in 1973's Westworld, though the first use of 3D imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld (1976), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke. The first two films to make heavy investments in CGI, Tron (1982) and The Last Starfighter (1984), were commercial failures, causing most directors to relegate CGI to images that were supposed to look like they were created by a computer. The first real CGI c ...

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Computer-generated imagery, Computer-generated imagery - History, Computer-generated imagery - Creating characters and objects on a computer, Computer-generated imagery - Free CGI Tools Available Online for Download

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Creative Visualization / Guided Imagery

The use of mental energy to create positive thoughts to manifest life changes; a process by which a facilitator suggests the types of pictures to imagine in the mind as a technique to create thought forms for a desired end result which will later manifest in the physical world.

(See also: Creative Visualization / Guided Imagery, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

E.S.S.E.N.C.E. (ESSENCE Guided Imagery Process): Form of guided imagery developed by Dr. Mitch Gaynor, author of Healing Essence: A Cancer Doctor's Practical Program of Hope and Recovery. its principle is that the removal of psychological and emotional barriers to healing leads to a life-affirming process of healing.

(See also: ESSENCE Guided Imagery Process:, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Computer animation combines Vector graphics with programmed movement. The starting point is often a stick figure in which the position of each feature (limb, mouth etc) is defined by an Avars (animation variable). CGI is another term for computer animation, but usually refers to 3D high resolution with the emphasis on movies. The character "Woody" in Pixar's movie Toy Story, for example, uses 700 Avars. Successive sets of Avars control all movement of the character from frame to frame. Once the stick model is moving in the desired way ...

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Computer-generated imagery, Computer-generated imagery - History, Computer-generated imagery - Creating characters and objects on a computer, Computer-generated imagery - Free CGI Tools Available Online for Download

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The conception of angels derived from Biblical descriptions is difficult to present as a visual image, and furthermore composite beings are largely alien to the central Greco-Roman tradition. (Contrast archaic and exotic beings like Harpy, Typhon, Centaur Gryphon etc.) Some art historians believe Christians adopted the image of the lovely winged dawn goddess Aurora (or Eos) to represent angels. Cherubim, in particular, are frequently represented as infants (Italian putti) in Christian-inspired art, as can be seen in innumerable church frescoes and in the work Renaissance painters such as Raphael. The im ...

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Eidetic imagery is perhaps the only kind that produces actual visual memory that can be looked at similarly as if at looking the actual picture. Lake, Haber and Haber produced a study in which they presented a subject with an image for 30 seconds. After removing the image the subjects ware asked whether they could see anything. In a study of elementary school children they presented them with an illustration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. After removing it some children were describing with a vivid ...

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Visual memory, Visual memory - Eidetic imagery, Visual memory - Photographic memory, Visual memory - Iconic memory, Visual memory - Spatial memory, Visual memory - Sources

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The twin buttes of the valley ("the Mittens"), the "Totem Pole" (although the Navajo did not actually build totem poles) and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status. They have appeared in many television programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially Westerns. Monument Valley - The Valley in film and television. Director John Ford's 1939 film Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, has had an enduring influence in making the Valley famous. After that firs ...

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In August of 1998, NASA contracted EarthSat to produce Landsat GeoCover - a positionally accurate orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner imagery covering the majority of the Earth's land mass. The contract was part of the NASA Scientific Data Purchase which was administrated through NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center. GeoCover was later enhanced to EarthSat NaturalVue, a natural color Landsat 7 derived circa year 2000, orthorectified, mosaicked and color balanced digital image ...

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Landsat 7, Landsat 7 - Satellite specifications, Landsat 7 - Main features, Landsat 7 - SLC Failure, Landsat 7 - Satellite Imagery

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One particularly interesting motif in the novel is the "twitch". At crucial points in the novel, a twitch occurs, and Jack assigns it significant importance. Later in the novel, Jack briefly espouses the belief that all life is "The Great Twitch". Another recurring images is Jack's conception of Anne Stanton as a childlike, innocent figure of beauty. The book also is replete with Oedipal imagery and themes, as Jack discovers his father's true identity, causes his death, and discovers who his mother is metaphorically and subsequently shows affection towards her. The idea of Jack's con ...

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All the King's Men, All the King's Men - The Novel, All the King's Men - Characters, All the King's Men - Themes/Imagery, All the King's Men - Movie versions

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As of 2003, specialist bondage magazines have been mostly displaced by the availability of bondage material on the World Wide Web, and the presence of bondage imagery in mainstream pornographic magazines such as Nugget and Hustler's Taboo magazine. However, the tradition of bondage magazines continues in the form of "art books" of bondage photographs, published by mainstream publishers such as Taschen. ...

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Bondage pornography, Bondage pornography - Detective magazines comic books and early fetish magazines, Bondage pornography - Bondage magazines return, Bondage pornography - Bondage websites and bondage imagery in mainstream pornography

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Since no written records exist from the period the carvings were created, there is no way to know what purposes they were meant to serve and what spurred their creation. Possible explanations include use in shamanistic rituals, totemistic symbols that denoted tribal unity or marked a tribe's territory, a kind of historical record of important events, or even simple artistic pleasure. Since individual carvings show such a wide array of different images and the carvings were created over an extremely long period of time, it seems plausible that individual carvings might have served any of the purposes li ...

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Rock carvings at Alta, Rock carvings at Alta - Cultural and historical background, Rock carvings at Alta - Discovery and restoration, Rock carvings at Alta - Imagery and interpretations, Rock carvings at Alta - Animals, Rock carvings at Alta - Hunting and Fishing scenes, Rock carvings at Alta - Scenes of mundane life and scenes of rituals, Rock carvings at Alta - Geometric symbols

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In the early 20th century, "Detective magazines" covertly provided a way of publishing bondage imagery. Comic books often featured characters being tied up and tying others up, particularly in "damsel in distress" plots. There were also a very limited number of specialist fetish magazines which featured images of bondage, such as the famous Bizarre magazine published from 1946 to 1959 by the pioneering fetish photographer John Willie, and ENEG's Exotique mag ...

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This is a Root page introducing the broad field of animation. Further information: Computer animation, and Computer generated imagery, and [[]], and See also:

Animation, Animation - Animation techniques, Animation - History, Animation - Animation studios, Animation - Styles and techniques of animation, Animation - Further Readings

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The three aspects of the goddess are The Maiden (Greek Persephone), pure and a representation of new beginnings; The Mother (Greek Demeter), wellspring of life, giving and compassionate; and The Crone (Greek Hecate) wise, knowing, a culmination of a lifetime of experience. These aspects may also represent the cycle of birth, life and death (and rebirth). More than anything, though, Neopagans believe that t ...

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The three aspects of the goddess are The Maiden (Greek Persephone), pure and a representation of new beginnings; The Mother (Greek Demeter), wellspring of life, giving and compassionate; and The Crone (Greek Hecate) wise, knowing, a culmination of a lifetime of experience. These aspects may also represent the cycle of birth, life and death (and rebirth). More than anything, though, Neopagans believe that th ...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of Hemingway's experiences. Some experiences from the time of World War One have been worked into For Whom the Bell Tolls. According to Anthony Burgess, the farewell at the station on page 434 is the equivalent of Hemingway's departure to the Italian front. An interesting aspect is that Jordan went to school instead, maybe the war represents for Hemingway, as well as for his character Robert Jordan, a part of his education. The last thoughts of Jordan could refer to Erne ...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls, For Whom the Bell Tolls - The title, For Whom the Bell Tolls - World events context, For Whom the Bell Tolls - On the Novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of Hemingway's experiences, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of previous novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Narration, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Themes, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Imagery, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Dramatisations and influences

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The music can be described as minimalist as several themes are repeated again and again in different places. The opening music repeats a simple synthesizer melody over and over again. "The Grid"'s opening is characterized by slow sustained notes on brass instruments. The music builds in speed and dynamics throughout the piece's 21 minutes. When the peice is at its fastest, it is characterized by an sythesizer ...

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Reggio has said in a short documentary about the film, Essence of Life, that the Qatsi films meant to create an experience and that "it is up for the viewer to take for herself what it is that [the film] means." However, the film does question whether, in our haste for technological advancement, humankind have progressed out of balance with nature, each other and our own internal free spirits, with Man now reduced to just a raw material in a non-stop machine. Reggio said in Essence of Life "these films have never been about the ...

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Koyaanisqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi - Imagery, Koyaanisqatsi - Music, Koyaanisqatsi - Meaning, Koyaanisqatsi - History, Koyaanisqatsi - Trivia, Koyaanisqatsi - Influence

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Out of print for over a decade, Koyaanisqatsi was rereleased on DVD in late 2002. Much of the reason for the film's disappearance from the market centered around a complicated rights and royalties dispute. Reggio's Institute for Regional Education owns the original copyright on the film. The film had originally been licensed and distributed through Island Entertainment/Palm Pictures, which had subsequently been sold to PolyGram - and after the dissolution of PolyGram Pictures, the entire PolyGram film library had been sold to Metro-Go ...

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The area is part of the Colorado Plateau. The floor is largely Cutler Red siltstone or its sand deposited by the meandering rivers that carved the valley. The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-grey rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide. The buttes are clearly stratified, with three principal layers. The lowest layer is Organ Rock shale, the middle de Chelly sandstone and the top layer is Moenkopi ...

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Monument Valley, Monument Valley - Geology, Monument Valley - Iconic imagery, Monument Valley - The Valley in film and television, Monument Valley - Tourism

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A screenplay has very rigid set of standardizations in place, beginning with proper formatting. These rules are in part to serve the practical purpose of making screenplays uniformly readable "blueprints" of movies, and also to serve as a way of distinguishing a professional from an amateur --- if a screenplay doesn't follow the simple rules of formatting, it is generally disregarded as a lesser product, regardless of content. All screenplays are expected to be written in 12 point Courier or Courier New typeface, with ...

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Screenwriting, Screenwriting - Controversy in the industry, Screenwriting - Theories on writing a screenplay, Screenwriting - Syd Field, Screenwriting - Final thoughts, Screenwriting - Screenplay format and elements of the screenplay, Screenwriting - Character, Screenwriting - Dialogue, Screenwriting - Imagery, Screenwriting - Plot, Screenwriting - 'Beats', Screenwriting - Becoming a screenwriter, Screenwriting - Breaking into the industry, Screenwriting - Handling Writer's Block, Screenwriting - Editing, Screenwriting - Screenwriting software, Screenwriting - Protecting your Work

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Descriptions in the Bible vary, but in general all describe cherubim as winged creatures combining human and animal features. In the book of Genesis cherubim are described as guarding the way to the Tree of Life, east of the Garden of Eden armed with flaming swords (Genesis 3:24): "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned ever ...

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Cherub, Cherub - Cherubim in the Bible, Cherub - Cherubim in Christian imagery, Cherub - Cherubim in Islam, Cherub - Origin of the word, Cherub - Names attributed to this angelic order

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