Cinematic Philosophy: Experiential Affirmation in Memento

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Cinematic Color

This class presents an introduction to the color pipelines behind modern feature-film visual-effects and animation. Color impacts many areas of the computer graphics pipeline. From texture painting to lighting, rendering to compositing, and from image display to the theater, handling color is a tricky problem. Tired of getting your images right on the monitor, only to have them fall apart later...

What drives self-affirmation effects? On the importance of differentiating value affirmation and attribute affirmation.

In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...

MEMORIA: Personal Memento Service Using Intelligent Gadgets

People would like to record what they experience to recall their earlier events, share with others, or even hand down to their next generations. In addition, our environment has been getting digitalized and the cost of storing media has been being reduced. This has led research on the life log that stores people's daily life. The research area includes collecting experience information convenie...

Memento Mundi: Are Virtual Worlds History?

In this paper, I consider whether virtual worlds are history in two senses of the word. The first explores the implications of the life-cycle of virtual worlds, especially of their extinction, for thinking about the history of computerbased technologies, as well as their use. The moment when a virtual world “is history” – when it shuts down – reminds us that every virtual world has a history. H...