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...plots a mystery as well as any other writer alive, and he never takes the easy path of repeating a winning formula. Instead, Robert Barnard has worked his way, with freshness and originality, through the customary British variations: the stories involving academic life, the publishing world, the news media, stately homes, ancient titles, the royal family and the down-and-out. The only consistent elements in his novels have been precise perceptions and a larkish sense of humor. In Out of the Blackout, Barnard finds unlikely vitality in one of the most overworked subgenres: the story of an adopted child...
...process of separating. She announced she was giving up international competition, but soon changed her mind and in December returned to the European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...
...them to beef up their own sections. Many newspapers have sprinkled their front pages with bold colors, expanded their weather maps and added more charts and sidebars. Though most editors contend that their papers were moving in that direction anyway, some acknowledge that USA Today blazed the path. "Editors are now aware that you can get a lot of information into a chart or graph rather than a ten-or 15-inch story," says Larry Tarleton, news managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald. Says Michael Keegan, assistant managing editor for art at the Washington Post: "Its greatest influence...
...flight simulator for pilot training that would show on a screen the same unfolding landscape the pilot would see from the air. To do this, the Utah scientists first had to program into the computer a precise mathematical model of every tree, house and mountain in the flight path. Then they instructed the machine to put each of those objects into three-dimensional perspective, to give it the illusion of depth and to eliminate those surfaces that would be hidden from the viewer's line of sight...
Today's most advanced graphics systems take Evans and Sutherland's procedure one step further. Using a programming technique known as ray tracing, they follow the path of each ray of light as it travels from its source, say the sun, to the viewer's eye. Upon striking a surface, each ray will be absorbed, reflected or transmitted in accordance with the laws of optics. Programmed with a mathematical model of the behavior of light rays, the machines can re-create lighting effects of dizzying complexity. Caltech's Jim Kajiya, for example, has used ray tracing to show how ripples...