Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thorniest problem is the eye; for in order to analyze a visual scene a great deal of knowledge about the physical world is needed--knowledge that computers have barely begun to acquire. The method used here is to scan with a camera a scene containing light object on a dark 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...
...cooling system, and transmitted to a ground station the same sort of signals a lunar module would send while returning from the surface of the moon. For astronauts and space watchers alike, the high points of the week were the television shows, shot with the 41-lb slow-scan TV camera developed for Apollo...
...aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle tracks around a supposedly downed bridge. "It's all a battle of wits between us and Ho's people," says an officer...
...crash raised a new storm of scan dal over what is already the most controversial warplane ever built. After the first two crashes, both of which occurred in the first week of combat, the Air Force grounded the F-111. Though it failed to find the first plane, the Air Force did recover the wreckage of the second. After sifting through the twisted parts, its investigators declared that the cause of the crash was a $1 tube of sealant that had been left behind, apparently by a careless mechanic. Somehow, it had worked its way into the automatic flight mechanism...
...wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe and Dostoevsky, La Chinoise is only, like its subject, scan-deep: dazzling on the surface and virtually vacuous beneath...