Word: scanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notices only objects that remain still. The results are displayed on twin video screens: a waving hand appears in one image as a few lines of sparkling static; in the other it is invisible. Even more sophisticated is a nearby display that has adapted an industrial vision system to scan ordinary objects like combs, keys and coins. As long as the objects are correctly positioned beneath the camera, the computer easily identifies them. "I see a comb. Am I right?" it asks coyly...
...composer who employs himself as a librettist has a fool for a collaborator. Goya's scan-deep profundity is revealed in such apercus as "I have to paint to live. But I only live to paint." Never once, though, does Goya show its hero in the throes of creation. There is little sense of the penetrating psychological insight of his official portraits, and important events like his rise to court painter are only alluded to, or take place offstage. The horrors of the Napoleonic invasion, reflected in Goya masterpieces like the stark, brutal The Third of May, 1808, are suggested...
...condition had so deteriorated that his family and doctors decided not to connect him to a respirator should his lungs fail. Schroeder lingered in a twilight state for seven months, until last week. Family members, summoned to his bedside, initially balked at the doctors' request for a CAT scan but finally agreed. The test confirmed that a massive stroke had destroyed most of Schroeder's brain, and last rites were given...
...tilting color- TV camera and capable of diving to 330 ft. Says Hydro Products Executive Bob McKee: "You can just throw it into the back of your pickup, run out to the site and throw it into the water." Prices are also dropping for such devices as side-scan sonar, which generates high-resolution images of the ocean bottom, and sub-bottom sonar, which can distinguish the shape of buried objects...