Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speeding motorists will now have to contend with another highway-patrol device, one that has proved considerably more accurate than simple speedometer pacing and more flexible in operation than radar tracking. It is known as VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder) and consists of a small computer mounted in the front seat of a patrol car. By measuring time and distance and then converting them into an average-speed reading, it can clock automobiles coming, going or even crossing...
...meet his General Education requirements has almost doubled in the past year, and next fall the increase will be even greater. Although the Humanities and, to some degree, the Natural Sciences have lagged behind the Social Sciences in new offerings, the Expository Writing 100's and a number of visual arts courses have proved successful experiments. Audio-visual aids and plans for computer services indicate a progressive view toward applying technology to instruction...
...Visual Dividend. Aerodynamicist Cahn admits that he does not have the answer to one objection raised to his paper at the A.I.A.A. meeting: the creation of a sufficiently strong electrical field might require too much power to be economical. But he points out that there would be less drag or air friction on a charged SST, reducing the power necessary to fly it at a given speed and altitude. He suggests that only further tests with larger models and wind tunnels-now being considered by Northrop, Boeing and NASA-can determine if the system is practical...
Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...
...assistants," says the savant in some puzzlement. "Using exactly the same elements, none of them has been able to create an original work." Nonetheless, in the U.S. and Europe, he has spawned a host of op disciples. He has also played spiritual begetter to a younger generation of kinetic "visual researchers," led by his son Yvaral, who apply his democratic principles to mechanized art. Moreover, at Grenoble his work is at last being integrated into a "consecrated modern city" in the form of a giant aluminum shield for a skating rink at the Winter Olympics. What Vasarely would really like...