54 January/February 2000 Michael F. Cohen Microsoft Research It would be easy to gaze into the distant future and speculate what image synthesis technology may be. Since Star Trek with its Holodeck has already done this far better than I can, prognosticating will not be my main focus here. Instead, I hope to relate some of my own inspiration for getting involved with computer graphics, an inspi...

The eighteenth century is commonly thought of as the "age of reason", an age in which the imagination was not given a central role in the arts, far less in science. But in Hume's attempts to account for our belief in a continuing external world he is forced into invoking the activity of the imagination. His views on the activity of the imagination greatly influenced Adam Smith, who adapted them...

In this paper I put forward a concept of the imagination which weaves together many of the key and overlapping dichotomies around which discussions of the imagination have circled: dichotomies between the productive and reproductive, between presence and absence, between creativity or spontaneity and receptivity or passivity, between invention and disclosure, between cognition and affect. Inter...

Three fundamental systems of communication are defined: information, explanation and imagination. Information is based on analytic distinctions between objects in the world. Explanatory communication provides knowledge through discourse, narration, logic, rhetoric and other forms of systemic elaboration. Intellectual discovery relies on a third system of communication, that of imagination. Rath...

Contemporary psychology of music approaches musical imagination in terms of either cognitive system’s specific (voluntary, involuntary or anticipatory) behavior or capacity. Musical imagination-as-behaviour allows us, for example, to consciously experience the phenomenon of “musical earworms” (e.g., Beaman & Williams, 2010). However, we do not have to be conscious of the workings of musical ima...

Many actors report a form of dual-consciousness when playing roles on stage: they react to the given circumstances as their characters would do, but do not forget are stage. This paper analyzes concept and argues that actor results from actor’s imaginings, which both recreate experience character inform about non-reality experience. Keywords: Acting, actor, dual-consciousness, recreative imagin...