In the past, viewers were constrained to watch television in front of a receiver in their home. Today, people watch video at any time and in any place. A viewer can now browse video on their desktop PC, or watch a movie outdoors on a mobile handheld device, or view HDTV (High Definition Television) in their own home theater system or at Digital Cinemas within a well controlled viewing environment.

During the last year we all were banned to participate in our everyday life using online transmission, homework, homeschool and different digital tools. But with this also gained access cultural or other practices that previously not part life. That resulted a detailed spectrum of participation from form listening-observing levels giving feedback taking control (for example putting questions pa...

A In Japan, most of children haven’t read the Fairy Tales or tales of old Japan because the high technology video games are more exciting than most of picture books. But they must be effective to bring up the children’s cultivation of aesthetic sensitivity. And we have heard from teachers of elementary schools that most of themes of computer education in school are the operation of Painting Too...

The image generated by an off-center projector appears distorted (Figure 1, left). Using an uncalibrated camera pointed at the presentation screen, our system automatically recovers the projector-to-screen homography and pre-warps the computer output to produce a keystone-corrected image (Figure 1, right). This allows the presenter to place the microportable projector anywhere in the room witho...

The conversion of α-benzocycloalkenones to homologous β-benzocycloalkenones containing six, seven and eight-membered rings is reported. This was accomplished via a Wittig olefination-oxidative rearrangement sequence using [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]-benzene (HTIB) is the oxidant, that enables the synthesis of regioisomeric pairs of methyl-substituted β-benzocycloalkenones. The incorporation of carb...

Planetarium technology is steadily shifting from opto-mechanical based projection to digital projection. This technology shift allows the consolidation of many individual projection sources into a single full-dome video-based display and image generation system. This shift is having a profound effect on planetarium show production, educational tools, theater automation, system maintenance, equi...

Hospitalizations aboard aircraft carriers were examined to ascertain differences in illness type attributable to theater of operations and combat deployment status. Percentage distributions and lengths-of-stay statistics of major diagnostic categories are provided and compared between Vietnam combat support and peacetime modes of operations and between Western Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...

The immersive Earth Theater at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) uses CaveUT and the Unreal Engine for real time virtual tours as part of public and educational programming. Research conducted comparing the theater with desktop displays shows immersion is a powerful tool, helping people create more connections. Content builds on the museum’s strengths and includes dinosaurs, an Egyptian...

In the context of two relevant examples of intangible cultural heritages, such as music and theater, this paper presents an innovative approach to online fruition of live performances. Our proposal aims at adding both interactivity and multi-layer fruition to traditional Web viewers, as well as a way to manipulate and create new media. The premise to reach these goals is digitizing a number of ...