Word: spatially
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Over the past two and a half years, Camann has spent hours a day whittling his Rubix solving time down to 12 seconds. Fame aside, Andy praises the cube for improving his academic abilities considerably. “Solving the cube improves your spatial solving ability,” he says. “It improved both my short-term and long-term memory...
...Ultimately, however, chemical and biological tools have only species specificity, but you don’t have spatial selectivity. So, we have given biologists the ability to add spatial selectivity to their array of research tools,” Mazur said...
These so-called “Rothko-bumpers” immortalize the numerous well-intended but futile attempts made to safeguard five paintings given to the University by internationally renowned American Abstract-Expressionist painter Mark Rothko. His murals, designed to create a complete spatial experience for a viewer and ranking among the most valuable works of art owned by Harvard, ironically did so in a physical space that would eventually lead to damage and their removal...
Cooper points out that the motif of a frame within the actual frame creates a definite spatial experience, where the sheer size of the paintings can make the viewer feel as if he is entering the work. Rothko’s painting technique, which involves the layering of colors, also creates a sense of depth, as variations across the murals imply the presence of dimension...
...founding members of the lab, Benton was also the head of its Spatial Imaging Group and the director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS). Benton died two days before the Media Laboratory was to hold a symposium in his honor...