Theaters: Cinematic vintage magnified

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...

A fine neuroscience vintage.

I recently bumped into a cardiologist mate who had just won a silver medal for his first wild barrel ferment Chardonnay from the vineyard he started with a haematologist, their wine label aptly named Blood Brothers. He told me his approach to cultivating a fine harvest. While many factors play a role he said, the raw product and how it is nurtured, remains the key. The grape variety and how it ...

Magnified Real-Time Tomographic Reflection

Real Time Tomographic Reflection (RTTR) permits in situ visualization of ultrasound images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. The method merges the visual outer surface of a patient with a simultaneous ultrasound scan of the patient’s interior. It combines a flat-panel monitor with a half-silvered mirror such that the image on the monitor is reflect...

Magnified time-domain ghost imaging

Spatial Competition in Retail Markets: Movie Theaters.∗

Retail markets are extremely important, but economists have few practical tools for analyzing the way dispersed buyers and sellers affect the properties of markets. In this paper, I develop an econometric model of retail demand, a model in which products are location specific and consumers have preferences over both geographic and other product characteristics. I show how to incorporate data on...