Word: interact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table. The varying light intensity is expressed as logarithms which direct successive scans until a fairly sharp idea of the objects' boundaries are obtained. After many steps an accurate two-dimensional mapping of the scene is completed and translation into three-dimensional models begins. Knowledge from many levels must interact before the computer is ready to put its manipulator into action. The manipulation is also an extremely complicated process which as yet does not yield very dramatic results...
...mathematical molecules began to interact, the computer sketched them in bright, sharp lines on a television screen. For the first time, scientists were able to examine a cross-section view of the orbits of electrons during a chemical reaction. By ordering the computer to slice through the ammonium chloride molecule at different angles, Clementi developed other cross sections; he was also able to determine exactly how the atoms in the molecule were joined...
...constrained by the intellectualization of Professor Heimert. On the one hand, he learned at Berkeley that "a great big, impersonal university just doesn't make it;" on the other hand, people just can't be thrown together in the Houses, placed under the charge of administrators, and told to interact--that would be "cheap social engineering." The solution is to recruit Masters who are committed to the intellectual goals of the university and to the social goals of the Houses. Heimert no doubt sees himself as this kind of compound figure. But his whole disposition makes him skittish about organizing...
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Barth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions...
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions...