Vision Of Space Research Articles

Mathematical modeling and implementation of a panoramic zoom system without central blind area

The panoramic annular lens (PAL) is renowned for providing simultaneous vision of the panoramic space. However, its inherent central blind area is a significant drawback. In this study, we aim to harness the benefits of the PAL while mitigating its limitations by proposing a dual-channel panoramic zoom system without a central blind area. The introduction of a positive front lens group for secondary imaging is a critical aspect of our design, which is guided and substantiated by our mathematical imaging model. The results from our design affirm the practicality and effectiveness of the secondary imaging. This design can achieve a zoom ratio of 1.46× and a maximum field of view (FoV) range of 71°∼100°, enabling zooming from front to rear. Exemplifying compactness, our system measures just 60mm in total length, while providing a high-resolution output, as indicated by a modulation transfer function exceeding 0.3 at 200lp/mm. With an F−θ distortion of less than 3.3%, the system maintains low levels of distortion. The analysis is instructive and the design shows potential in situations that necessitate compliance with size and resolution requirements.

The pragmatics of communicating threat and constructing the future in the discourse of the Iranian Supreme Leader

Abstract The paper aims at studying how the discourse of the Iranian Supreme Leader communicates threat and how it presents the reality of Iran’s future in light of policy options. Our data comes from 50 speeches of the Iranian Supreme Leader, delivered between 2005–2020. Adopting the Proximisation Theory, we indicate that spatial and axiological threats are conceptualised in the SL’s discourse as encroaching upon the present and future to impact the Islamic Republic of Iran. But, at the same time, the SL’s discourse depicts the impact consequences as relatively remote from Iran’s present and possible to materialise in the future space provided that certain preliminary circumstances are fulfilled. In this regard, aiming to neutralise the construed threats, the SL’s discourse depicts the privileged vision of the future space involving hortatory preemptive policies. We indicate that the SL’s discourse employs the construal of threats to necessitate and justify taking up future-building preemptive policies.

‘Back from the silence with something to say’: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia and silence as classical reception

Abstract This article explores the power of silence in the feminist recovery of classical texts to open up engaged spaces for women’s creative reworkings, taking as a case study Lavinia and her reception in Ursula Le Guin’s (2008) novel of the same name. By re-evaluating silence in dialogue with feminist and classical reception scholarship, I argue that Le Guin is able to bring a different angle to the reception of classical literary women, focusing on the gaps and spaces in Lavinia’s character that provide a medium for engagement with the incomplete text of the Aeneid. Silence thus becomes a locus in which Le Guin can transform Vergil’s silencing of Lavinia into a generative vision of the open space of interpretation available in classical literature and its reception.

THE MOTIF OF ESCAPE IN YAROSLAV MELNYK`S NOVEL «DISTANT SPACE»

The article examines the motif of escape in the novel «Distant Space» by the modern Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Melnyk. Upon reviewing critical literature, the genre classification of the work was identified as a hybrid, encompassing elements of a dystopian novel intertwined with features of science fiction, allegory, adventure, psychological and mystical fantasy, as well as a thriller novel. Its intertextual space covers the works of Ray Bradbury, Ken Kesey, George Orwell, V. Vynnychenko, H. Skovoroda, as well as V. Domontovych, M. Khvylovy. It has been emphasized that the plot collision of the metamodernist novel by Ya. Melnyk has its roots in the biblical story of Adam’s and Eve’s expulsion from paradise. The polyphonic and didactic character of the novel is revealed: everyone has their own truth, the author convinces, and makes it possible to hear everyone. Аt the same time, the book teaches to be tolerant, and to make an informed choice in difficult life situations.The artistic vision of space is embodied in the novel in three locations: metropolis (the land of blind people), Transparent Spot (the camp of blinded rebels who seek to destroy the metropolis), Quiet Corner (elite village of the sighted). The three specified locations of the novel are three options of fate that the author offers to his protagonist. Whenever the protagonist declines to adhere to the suggested course, the outcome of such ventures leads to three escapes in pursuit of a balanced cosmos—distant space.Gabra’s three escapes are also three women. Lioz, Niya, Natalie, each in their own way, in the course of the story become close to the main character. This aspect of the relationship gives the story piquancy, intimacy, and simultaneously dramatizes it. Relations with Lioz have no prospects, because it remains an organic part of the ugly pragmatic world of the metropolis. Beautiful Natalie is completely indifferent to the distant space of the main character. Instead, the «cautious optimism» of the novel can be traced in the relationship with Nia. The ethical and visual aspect for the artistic persuasiveness of the story is also emphasized.In the image of the main character Gabr Silk, the author shows a person who has to compete with unfavorable circumstances for the right to be happy, to be himself, to live a private life, even a marginal one, not involved in social and political currents. At the same time, indecisiveness, doubts about the expediency of one’s active actions lead to the fact that other people usually solve his problems (Oks, Nia).

Teens’ Vision of an Ideal Library Space: Insights from a Small Rural Public Library in the United States

Objective – This study delves into the perspectives of teenagers regarding their desired teen space within a small rural public library in the United States. Methods – To capture the richness of their thoughts, a visual data collection method was employed, wherein 27 8th-grade participants engaged in a drawing activity during an art class at a local middle school. Two additional teens were recruited for individual semi-structured interviews. Results – Through this creative exercise, the study unveiled the various library activities, amenities, books, and visual designs that resonated with the teens, as they envisioned their ideal teen space. Conclusion – The study’s findings hold practical implications for librarians working with this population, offering valuable insights to enhance and optimize teen services at the library. By aligning the library’s offerings with the desires of the young patrons, the potential for a thriving and engaging teen community within the library is enhanced.

Методика навчання студентів-художників зображенню оголеної натури людини м’якими матеріалами.

This paper considers the issue of professional training future specialists in Fine arts, in particular, forming their artistic skills in image creation using soft materials in a process of portraying nude art model in drawing and painting. The article covers both the educational process in institutions of higher education and individual creative activity. The article highlights the main achievements of the scientific research in Ukrainian National Mykhailo Dragomanov University in the discipline "Creative Drawing". It also reveals the specifics of the process of human body construction, which is the basis of the Fine art literacy and formation of artistic skills of a future specialist in visual Art pedagogy. It was determined that the students learn quickly to work with soft materials and do the educational scope of tasks in painting and drawing. They also get the practical technical skills which contribute the holistic vision of a model and their reflection in the sense of proportion, details and personality assessment. Students form aesthetic taste, figurative and colour vision, perception and understanding of time and space in environment. It allows them to grow professionally, show curiosity and implement their creative ideas. It was established that using soft art materials is the basis for the formation of art skills in reproduction of a nude figure in painting and drawing in professional education of the future qualified specialists.

Analysis on the Space-Time Vision of “The Garden of Forking Paths” and “The Aleph”—From the Function of the Metaphor of Labyrinth and Mirror

In daily life, people tend to recognize and think about intangible and difficult-to-define concepts with reference to known, tangible, and concrete concepts, creating a way to understand different concepts in relation to each other. In Borges’ s short story “The Garden of Forking Paths” a labyrinthine manuscript of a novel constantly avoids the concept of time, while at the same time illustrating the infinite possibilities of time. The time and labyrinth in the story can be considered a pair of “structural metaphors.” The manuscript written by Hsi P’êng is a symbol of the labyrinth of time, which is like an ever-entwined network, a collection of contingencies, nonlinearities, and multidimensionality. Another story, “The Aleph” tells the tale of the protagonist who is drowned in depression due to the death of his lover, Bejatric when by chance, he discovers a secret hidden in his lover’s cousin’s basement, an Aleph, two or three centimeters in diameter, which concentrates all the images and scenes of the universe. The Aleph is the source of his poetic talent, his hope of finding his deceased lover, and a special “space” constructed by Borges through the metaphor of a “mirror”. The objective of this dissertation is to briefly analyze how Borges constructs a “labyrinth”to objectify his vision of time in the story, and how he uses “mirrors” to express his vision of space.

‘One Map to Rule Them All’? Revisiting Legalities Through Cartographic Representations of the Northwest Passage

In the legal conceptualization of space, cartography has always been a fundamental tool narrating, representing, generating, or even (re)claiming territory. In this article, we examine the relationship between cartography and international law by looking at different cartographic representations of the area covering the disputed “Northwest Passage” (NWP). In an attempt to discuss how mapping may spring from different ontological assumptions of space among sovereign states and Indigenous communities, this article is devoted to investigations concerning different forms of law–space entanglements drawn from 12 different maps pertinent to the NWP, aiming to critically reconsider the very essence of law applicable to the region. The article supports the argument that approaching the juridical architecture of the Arctic from a pluralistic perspective that also accounts for non-Western visions of space may help as a valuable conceptual lens to rethink “territory” and revisit existing legal realities.

Visibility of Albert Einstein’s Four-Dimensional Plane of Existence in Sri Aurobindo’s Yogic Vision of ‘Space’ in His Epic “Savitri”

Albert Einstein’s mathematical discovery of the four-dimensional plane of existence, the ‘Spacetime’ or ‘Space-Time Continuum’, as it is called, is an evolutionary breakthrough in the realm of Science. Since the plane of ‘Spacetime’ or ‘Space-Time Continuum’ is a mathematical structure, the most celebrated scientist finds it to be a physical plane of existence. Mysteriously enough, it is not physically visible. Physics is answerless on its invisibility. Transcending Einstein, Sri Aurobindo, a ‘yogi of the unknown eternal heights’ reveals ‘Space’, in his epic Savitri, to be ‘a vast experiment of Soul’, the Divine Consciousness in the being of Man. Furthermore, it is the Soul of the Universe, ‘Vishwatman’, as the Rishis call it. In such a vision of space the mystery of the invisibility of Spacetime disappears. The plane of Spacetime is the plane of integral existence to which mankind is yet to evolve. Man is subject to the divisive principle of Consciousness as a result of which the plane of Spacetime is not visible to him. On account of the subjection to the divisive principle of consciousness Newton could find Space and Time to be two incompatible realities. Man is required to evolve his latent spiritual consciousness to attain the integrality of Consciousness for the vision of the plane of Spacetime. He has to undertake the yoga to attain, first, the silent state of mind to ascend the planes of the spiritual and Supramental Consciousnesses, says Sri Aurobindo. In the silent state of mind, the divisiveness of consciousness ceases to have its hold as a result of which man is able to visualise the plane of Spacetime, the Spacetime which is all the more clearly visible when he continues to ascend the higher planes of the spiritual consciousness. On the plane of the spiritual consciousness there is a movement towards the integrality of consciousness, and consequently ‘Space’ is found to be ‘a vast experiment of Soul’ in this movement, the movement which is, in fact, the ascent of the yogic consciousness.

Stakeholder perceptions of the socio-ecological role of nature-based solutions in the Les Glòries Park, Barcelona

The ongoing effects of the climate emergency and the recognition of the need to redesign cities to cope with future socio-environmental changes and increase the quality of life of urban inhabitants has pushed many cities to embrace the ‘re-naturalization’ of public space through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Les Glòries park (Barcelona) is an ongoing massive urban transformation project that incorporates NbS as a multifunctional tool. It attempts to respond to complex environmental, social, and economic urban problems while at the same time mitigating and adapting to hazards, such as floods and droughts, both predicted to increase in the Mediterranean region due to climate change. While NbS are also expected to improve environmental quality, not much attention has been given to how those strategies would intersect with citizens’ expectations and visions of public space and the uneven socio-environmental relations they can enforce. Through a case of urban development of a new large green area in Barcelona, this article aims to discern different perceptions by the local community and planners on the socio-ecological role of NbS and the implications this has for sustainable urban transitions. In-depth interviews were held with 25 key stakeholders and users, complemented by the analysis of secondary data from the town council of Barcelona about the perception of the space by residents living in the surrounding neighborhoods of the park. The results of this paper show that perceptions around NbS are strongly divided into three groups: the believers, the opposers and the skepticals. These results contribute to nuance NbS, as they do not provide universal benefits, neither for nature nor for society, and that they are subject to urban tensions derived from inequities, conflicts, tradeoffs, and particularly from divided visions of what the ‘re-naturalization’ of cities should look like.

Your flight has been cancelled: Stock vector landscape as a digital non-place

This article will present and analyse the results of a research workshop conducted during and after the 2022 Transitus symposium at Falmouth University. The article aims to explore our visions of physical space, travel and migration through stock landscape illustration. The workshop invited illustrators to draw a five-step sequence of images customizing a stock landscape by turning it into a view out of their window, thus exploring how a visual digital ‘airport’, a utopian hub of a stock landscape, disintegrates into particularities of individual experiences. The resulting sequences of images were put together in an online magazine about illustration, Slonvboa.ru, and are available here: http://slonvboa.ru/nonlandscape, accessed 10 June 2023. This webpage collects 30-minute drawings from fourteen illustrators based in ten countries: Armenia, Dubai, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, with ten of the participants being based outside of their home country. Building upon the idea of the ‘nomadic illustration’ suggested by Catrin Morgan and Marc Augé’s notion of ‘non-place’, this article will explore further similarities between nomadism and the circulation of stock imagery. It will thus use the term ‘nomadic’ not only as a metaphor, but also as a direct link to migration studies and studies of digital nomadism, which often describes the precarious occupation of a migrating illustrator. This project will aim to highlight the unlikely possibilities that stock illustration may offer as a point of connection, rather than an alienating utopian abstraction. It will also analyse how individual authorial strategies deal with the notion of space, and how artistic means shape our visions of private and public spaces.

Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Sayf Cummings

Reviewed by: Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Sayf Cummings Karen A. Rader (bio) Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy By Alex Sayf Cummings. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 248. In 1868, when Jefferson Davis first articulated the idea that the U.S. South "shall rise again," he could not have imagined one of its forms as a high-tech university-business partnership in North Carolina. And yet, more than a century later, an unlikely band of suburban developers and university leaders envisioned and built the so-called Research Triangle Park (RTP) as a means of transforming what was once deemed "cornbread country" (p. 77) into an organized series of "knowledge work" towns and cities, one of which bore the nickname "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees" (p. 135). In Brain Magnet, Alex Sayf Cummings gives scholars and local historians a fascinating and well-written account of this historical moment and its importance for the historiography of technology and capitalism by "employing a distinctive method: refracting the story of broad changes in the nature of capitalism through concepts of space and place" (p. 6). Chapter 1 analyzes the design and building of the RTP as a Cold War–era Southern creative city, a site of "self-invention and audacious boosterism" (p. 21). Coming to terms with North Carolina's transitioning postwar population trends (with many African Americans leaving the state) and socioeconomic woes (like low wages and poor schools), business elites partnered with university and government leaders to conceive and promote the idea of the RTP as a geographic enclave—"a concentration of technological and scientific infrastructure and of social capital which was possessed by skilled workers" (p. 47). Chapter 2 chronicles the rise of the idea of the "knowledge worker," as it was first embedded in and later drew strength from the paired view of the RTP as a frontier for creating a "whole new economic sector: research" (p. 56). Cummings observes that research was always meant to bolster the economy through expanding educational opportunities and employment, but he also suggests that the RTP's long-term success came at an early price. Planners had to make a "major compromise in their vision of an anti-industrial space for intellectual labor" (p. 67) by welcoming applied research powerhouse tenants like the federally funded National Environmental Health Sciences Center, as well as corporations like IBM and Technitrol. Chapter 3 recounts what happened in the 1960s when more RTP knowledge workers came to live nearby: wealthy black executives and middle-class scientists struggled to reconcile boosters' promises of social enlightenment and good race relations with their own experiences of "blockbusting" in [End Page 638] the new surrounding suburbs. Chapter 4 pairs analysis of the design of two 1970s-era RTP buildings—the Burroughs Wellcome Building (1971) and the National Humanities Center (1978)—as "profoundly rigorous and intentional" (p. 105) embodiments of new forms of knowledge work, engineered to house intellectual resources abstractly, as "brains in a luminous structure in a suburban landscape" (p. 119). Finally, the book's last chapters return to the cities within the Triangle—Cary (ch. 5) and Raleigh-Durham (ch. 6) as paired emblems of "the good boring life" and the further displacement that the RTP's gentrification mandate wrought. The RTP became, in one of the author's most memorable sound-bite assessments, "a Jetsons success in a hipster era" (p. 184). Cummings's epilogue returns to the figure of the knowledge worker, quoting and reflecting on its place in what a 2017 journalist deemed the "lanyard-based class system" (p. 198) of the twenty-first-century tech economy. Brain Magnet, by the author's own assessment, "is in, but not of, Southern history. It is about the way we think about and imagine the economy, what the economy is, where the economy should go and, above all, who matters" (p. 17). In this way, Cummings's book both builds on existing studies of regional knowledge hubs (like Lily Geismer's account of Boston's Route 128 and Margaret O'Mara's work on Silicon Valley) and contributes new insights to...

Literary Space as a Means of Historical Representation in Contemporary British and Belarusian Fiction

Artistic concepts of space in contemporary fiction remain one of the most important tools for explaining, evaluating, and interpreting a particular historical period. This article focuses on the comparative study of the functions of spatial images in the works of modern Belarusian and British writers: H. Mantel, P. Ackroyd, J. Crace, A. Miller, A. Arkush, L. Rublevskaya, V. Orlov, etc. The aim of the study is to identify various aspects, functions, and characteristics of literary landscapes in historical fiction and determine which of them are universal, and which are unique for authors from different countries. Based on the principles of the comparative method and the method of hermeneutic analysis, the author identifies and interprets universal spatial imagery of a house, ruins, a church, a gate, a bridge, and other significant landscape symbols. Also, she analyses the metaphor of the palimpsest in the diachronic aspect. The significance of literary visions of space in historical fiction is determined by its primary connection with the notions of culture and identity. More particularly, it is the strong historical associations that turn the national landscape into an element of cultural heritage, a repository of collective memory. This feature manifests itself in the motifs of return to the parental home (as a way of the character’s spiritual rebirth); unsuccessful restoration and architectural monstrosity as an expression of the loss of cultural codes of the past; mapping as a revolt against chaos; a revived murderous statue as a repressed, “haunting” history and its destructive influence on modern society. The perception of the physical landscape as a material form of the past determines its axiological potential. As a result, the images of Victorian architecture are used as symbols of lost greatness (P. Ackroyd, S. Waters, A. Byatt), and the images of modern (Soviet in Belarusian texts) buildings reflect the ontological emptiness and failure of the twentieth-century ideologies. The models of literary space in the texts analysed point to the perception of the historical process as a history of regress and degradation.

The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 by Kyle J. Gardner

Reviewed by: The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 by Kyle J. Gardner Benjamin Holt The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962. By Kyle J. Gardner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxi + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-84059-0. $99.00 (hardcover). A central aim of Kyle Gardner's The Frontier Complex is to demonstrate how colonial border-making shaped ideas about territory that created legacies still felt in contemporary Asia (p. xvi). Supplementary ambitions are to bring Ladakh into greater focus within histories of South Asia (p. 20) and amalgamate top-down narratives of border-making with ground-level experiences. The book delivers on these aims. To do so, Gardner traces the history of the frontier to reveal how colonial concerns with geography and security created the foundation for the postcolonial borderland. Thus, the book rejects the stasis of borders in favor of an in-depth temporal analysis of developments in the northwest Himalaya, with primary focus on Ladakh. A core argument made by Gardner is that the creation of a borderland is not merely a routine exercise in map-making. Rather, the process is critical for understanding ways that "geography, politics, and power" are understood (p. 2). When this historical process is recognized, notable insights follow. For instance, Gardner is particularly keen to stress the ramifications of the "new, geopolitical way of seeing space" that dominated British thinking from the late nineteenth century (p. 184). The focus on security was propelled by colonial anxieties and this—alongside the inability to properly demarcate a clear boundary—produced lasting effects. This conundrum proved to be a key factor behind the Sino-Indian war of 1962, the temporal endpoint of the book. [End Page 532] The notion of the "frontier complex"—that is the various practices used by colonial officials, from surveys and mapping, to construction, information, and regulation (p. 21)—provides the framework for analysis. The first chapter covers the diverse ways the region was "seen" before the British arrival, suggesting that "Ladakh" was—in a sense—a colonial construct. The second then suggests the colonial state developed both natural and political understandings of the region but failed to construct a "scientific frontier" regardless.1 This desire to politicize geography is a continuing theme in chapters three and four as roadbuilding and colonial texts take centre stage. The former was a conduit of imperial security; the latter reflected the colonial vision of territory. Chapters five and six then delve into the rise of geopolitical thought from the 1880s, as colonial anxieties clashed with previous ideas about exploration and commercialization. The final chapter then confronts the postcolonial legacies of the frontier complex. A key strength of The Frontier Complex is its advancement beyond top-down narratives of border-making to continually examine groundlevel interactions with colonial visions of space. For instance, chapter four provides a compelling overview about how lopchak and chaba—essentially tributes paid between Ladakh and Lhasa—proved problematic for colonial governance and prestige (pp. 158–165). This approach is made possible by a rich and diverse source base. The only issue this reviewer would highlight relates to the 1962 war. Considering how heavily it weighs upon the book, the immediate prelude to war is mostly overlooked (pp. 248–250). A more concerted explanation for the midand short- term dynamics could be provided, narrated alongside the longer-term structural factors that Gardner's book reveals. This would help to recalibrate traditional narratives of the conflict, providing more convincing context for the diplomatic failures leading to 1962, of which Gardner is critical (p. 61). Despite this relatively minor area of contention, The Frontier Complex is a richly researched work that provides significant insight for several fields. This is clearest for borderlands studies and adds to a growing repertoire of historically focused analyses in recent years.2 [End Page 533] Viewing borders as something more than "hard territorial lines" is a clear point of departure for the subfield, but Gardner's book reinforces the benefits of understanding the temporal development of the borderland to reveal how spaces are conditioned by the changing interests of associated polities...

Методология и дидактика криминалистической культуры: основы структуризации криминальной реальности, анализа следового пространства и осмысления первичной информации

In the article, from the standpoint of a comprehensive understanding of the role of the forensic culture of law enforcement, the methodological prerequisites for the self-determination of forensic knowledge in the structure of criminal law sciences are traced. Law enforcement is considered as a process of restoring justice in public relations, expressed in the movement in the wake of the events of criminal reality, revealing the essence of the trace space and proving the compliance of the traces found with those events that caused damage to people or nature. The important role of the didactic stage in the formation of the forensic culture of law enforcement is emphasized. The complex essence of forensic education is revealed and the didactic means of forming a forensic culture of law enforcement are characterized. A comprehensive understanding of the vision of the trace space of criminal reality is given in relation to the sphere of crime investigation. The didactic stages of the formation of the forensic culture of law enforcement officers through training the ability to structure the criminal reality and its individual manifestations are singled out, and the special didactic tool “primary information comprehension scheme” developed at the Department of Criminalistics of the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is characterized. This didactic tool is considered in the context of the possibility of its use in the operational-combat thinking of an employee of the internal affairs bodies. In situations where the proposed mental algorithm can become the basis for the optimal actions of a police officer in a situation where it is necessary to instantly respond to emerging circumstances during combat contact with the use of various types of weapons and special means.:

Architectural Glass

Recent decades have seen growing and widespread adoption of glass as an architectural material that can be used not only as window panes but also as facades, walls, and roofs. This is despite glass traditionally being considered a brittle material, not readily capable of handling the high loads required of architectural materials. Architectural glass has enabled the vaulted, transparent structures of many modern airport terminals and eye-catching buildings, such as the ubiquitous all-glass Apple Stores found around the world. Glass has enabled architects to expand their visions of buildings, using light and space to create wonderful new designs. As described in this review, these dramatic new possibilities for how glass is used in architecture have been the result of a convergence of many developments, including a better understanding of the fracture of glass, new processes for strengthening glass, confidence in large-scale finite element modeling of gravitational and wind loads, advances in the lamination of glass sheets, and the availability of ever larger individual sheets of float glass. The concurrent evolution of standards for the use of glass in buildings has also played a role in advancing the use of architectural glass. Advances in the architectural use of glass have their roots in the traditional uses and physical understanding of the properties of glass that have developed over hundreds of years.

Application of 3D Software Virtual Reality in Interior Designing

A 3D virtual reality expertise is a dynamic arena of research in current years. Virtual technology is a novel expertise participating in artificial intelligence, image processing, and multisensor knowledge. The formation of situation in 3D virtual reality scheme is the key foundation for the simulation of virtual world scene. Aiming at the main problems that the effect of traditional interior space design is not ideal and cannot achieve practicability. This article proposes an interior space virtual design method based on three-dimensional vision. Initially, the feature of the indoor scene is combined with the set of three points, and finally, the optimal combination of the main and subpoints is obtained through the iterative combination of the main and subpoints of the indoor scene. The information fusion of color background and vision of indoor space is used for indoor comprehensive design. It is proved that the method proposed in this paper can effectively improve the effect and practicability of indoor space design through the simulation experiment with virtual reality platform software.

Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis

Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis

Food security and emerging infectious disease: risk assessment and risk management.

Climate change, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and food security create a dangerous nexus. Habitat interfaces, assumed to be efficient buffers, are being disrupted by human activities which in turn accelerate the movement of pathogens. EIDs threaten directly and indirectly availability and access to nutritious food, affecting global security and human health. In the next 70 years, food-secure and food-insecure countries will face EIDs driving increasingly unsustainable costs of production, predicted to exceed national and global gross domestic products. Our modern challenge is to transform this business as usual and embrace an alternative vision of the biosphere formalized in the Stockholm paradigm (SP). First, a pathogen-centric focus shifts our vision of risk space, determining how pathogens circulate in realized and potential fitness space. Risk space and pathogen exchange are always heightened at habitat interfaces. Second, apply the document-assess-monitor-act (DAMA) protocol developing strategic data for EID risk, to be translated, synthesized and broadcast as actionable information. Risk management is realized through targeted interventions focused around information exchanged among a community of scientists, policy practitioners of food and public health security and local populations. Ultimately, SP and DAMA protect human rights, supporting food security, access to nutritious food, health interventions and environmental integrity.

КОЛИЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ МЕТОДЫ В РОССИЙСКИХ ГЕОПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯХ

The issue of the article is to acquaint researchers with new methods of studying geopolitics on a strict quantitative scientifically grounded basis. The relevance of this topic is confirmed by the general growth of interest in geopolitical topics in scientific publications, but for the most part these publications are characterized by speculative argumentation and a superficial vision of geographic space. The review article intends to systematize modern theoretical knowledge about geopolitics, to present domestic methodological developments in this area. In the 1990 s, there was a search for conceptual schemes for a quantitative or qualitative analysis of geopolitical relations and acquaintance with foreign trends in geopolitics and methods of argumentation. Since the 2000 s in the latest methodology of geopolitics, 4 generalized directions are distinguished: geopolitics in geographical interpretation, which considers geopolitical processes through the prism of objective spatial data, and uses the geographic scientific base and theories of domestic economic and theoretical geography in the argument, the second is the geo-economic branch, which is based on the achievements of economic science in the mathematization of scientific knowledge, the third is critical geopolitics, which implies a quantitative and qualitative analysis of political discourse, geopolitical images and ideas about the place of a country (region) in the world, the fourth is geopolitical mathematical modeling. In general, the identified areas are not opposed to each other, but have pronounced accents and their own pool of studies, recognized as «classical», included in the foundation of scientific constructions, and there is also an interpenetration and unification of methods for quantitative analysis of geopolitical studies. The article is addressed in order to consolidate knowledge about geopolitics, to interpenetrate the developed methods in this area and stimulate interdisciplinary approaches.