Illuminating Letters

Illuminating Nature

At the base level of creative practice, artists often reap inspiration from their surroundings. Writers might eavesdrop on a conversation in a coffee shop and then use it in a novel, and a composer might transform sounds from his urban environment into an orchestral work. In Kelly Lanphier’s case, working at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, early on created a substantial i...

Illuminating Illumination

We introduce an active imaging method to measure scene illumination. The system implementation is divided into four steps. First, the system acquires two images: one is an ordinary image of the scene under ambient light and the other is a corresponding image in which light from the camera flash is added to the scene. Second, the image pair is analyzed to obtain an image that represents the scen...

Letters, we've got letters...

So, you want to write a letter to the editor? A recent editorial by Golub in JAMA prompted us to outline more fully our vision of Annals of Emergency Medicine’s Correspondence section and its place within the journal and the peer review process. Like most peer-reviewed publications, Annals of Emergency Medicine contains a correspondence section, commonly known as Letters to the Editor. Journals...

Letters Letters n Editor:

“Fronti Nulla Fides”: No reliance can be placed on appearance. In a letter to the editor (AI Mugazine, Winter 1989), Benjamin Kuipers criticizes various points made in an earlier paper of ours (Akman and ten Hagen 1989). First, a side (nonetheless important) remark: Although Kuipers asserts that he distributes QSIM to interested researchers, our experience has been otherwise. Akman has tried tw...

Illuminating the Universe's Ignition