Word: visualizations
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...every way the Russian film was less clever technically. "Triumph" had no narrative, but relied solely on visual effect, combined with music, cheers, and short speeches. The commentary of the English voice in the Soviet picture was gross and inadequate, attempting to describe scenes of such horror as to be visually incredible. After a long exposition of the virtue of the Allies in bringing the Nazi leaders to judicial trial, the voice launched into a denunciation of the defense counsels--an interesting commentary of Soviet justice...
...average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic proportion": the average driver loses 13% of his visual acuity, the extreme case loses...
...Bright light bleaches the visual purple, a pigment in the retina which is needed for vision in dim light. Overexposure slows the retina's power to restore the purple when needed...
Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...
...requirement that all undergraduates do a specified amount of reading from a list each summer for a fall examination has been termed a success, as has the substitution of visual techniques for texts and use of source documents in teaching of history...