Essays Tagged: "three dimensions"

Video card

IntroductionPeople are living in a three-dimensional space. They know what is up, down, left, right, close and far. They know when some ... ent years, the video card can now render 3D graphics. Most of the PC computer games nowadays are in three dimensions. In addition, some web sites also apply the use of three dimensional space. This me ... cs which were only in low resolution. However, there has now emerged as a result of high resolution three dimensional graphics technology. This paper will discuss why the video card nowadays can proce ...

(11 pages) 71 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

A comparison of Everquest to reality.

mimicking our reality.Like our reality, Everquest players can move from one location to the next in three-dimensions. A player can jump and duck. They can also perform other actions such as waving, sm ...

(3 pages) 82 2 3.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

"A Romance of Many Demensions' by Edwin A. Abbot. In this story by Edwin A. Abbot is Abbot telling us to strive for perfection or to be content with what we have?

land of one dimension, and Pointland, a land of zero dimensions. He cannot, however, conceptualize three dimensions. Finally, after a stranger brings him into three dimensions and back and the square ... nto three dimensions and back and the square attempts to teach everyone else in his community about three dimensions he finds himself in jail. In this story Abbot is telling us to be content with what ...

(3 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Bookreport on Abbot's book Flatland. Topics outlined are: the narrator(his conflicts too), class structure, recognition, interesting facts, fate of narrator. Cover Included (the unique cover by me).

ions. A. Square, a lawyer and mathematician in a two-dimensional world, visits Spaceland, a land of three-dimension, Lineland, a land of one dimension, and Pointland, a land of no dimensions. The narr ... visited by a Sphere, who shows him Spaceland or 3 dimensions. He is chosen to preach the Gospel of Three Dimensions to his fellow citizens of Flatland. At each previous millennium someone has been ch ...

(6 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Quest for Identity in American Literature

t speak of identity without referring to emotional, social and cultural stability. Apart from these three dimensions of the human being, another important aspect of the American identity is the femini ...

(9 pages) 232 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

What is QuickTime VR technology?

is an enhanced version of QuickTime. This version adds the ability to display and rotate objects in three dimensions. The user prepares visual material for QuickTime VR from a computer generated 3D ar ... RL) is a specification for displaying 3 dimensional objects on the Internet. VRML is an ASCII-based three-dimensional modelling language; it is the equivalent of HTML in 3D. Files written in VMRL have ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

How does ICT enable Supply Chain Integration and Agility?

tegrating the value chain and converging industry.Competitive advantage is suggested to comprise of three dimensions:Figure 1 Treacy & Wiersema 2002 Competitive strategies modelThis paper will loo ... model focused on core competencies.It is suggested that ICT assists supply chain integration along three dimensions (see figure 2). Through information which is easily accessible, shared, direct and ...

(14 pages) 765 0 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Satiric Subject, its Practices and Purposes in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

There are three basic genres in literature: drama, fiction, and poetry. All three categories can use comedy. C ... 09-1784) defined satire as "a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured". Typically, satire has three dimensions. The first dimension is pure entertainment. The second is a critical dimension, in ... ral diplomatic missions he met the pope first in 1365. He died in Florence, on 12/21/1375.There are three frames, in which Boccaccio's Decameron has to be seen. The author establishes these frames in ...

(4 pages) 79 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

M.C Escher

in a chaos without norms... I cannot help mocking our unwavering certainties... to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space or to poke fun at gravity (Locher 124)." These words were spok ... s woodcut was entitled, "St Francis Preaching to the Birds" (erols.com). At the young age of twenty-three, Escher was slowly becoming an artistic sensation. By 1932, at age thirty-four, he was not onl ...

(9 pages) 65 0 3.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Flatland and the Fourth Dimension Prompt:Analyze a concept derived or inspired by Flatland, written by Edwin A. Abbot, supported by information about the novel to demonstrate comprehension.

Living in a three-dimensional world does not enable one to visualize or physically experience anything more than ... seems to take place in the future and spans over a period of many months. The story takes place in three settings; Flatland, Spaceland, and Lineland. Flatland is a world of two dimensions, Spaceland, ... land. Flatland is a world of two dimensions, Spaceland, which is also referred to as Thoughtland is three dimensions, and Lineland is one dimension. For the majority of the novel Flatland is the surro ...

(5 pages) 35 0 1.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Grave of the Fireflies -------- My Personal Reactions

ty, hunger and dictatorship.This essay, with at the beginning a brief summary and an elaboration of three classic scenes in the movie, is going to present to you the three dimensions of the complex fe ... to offer an individual yet hopefully worthy viewpoint for those interested in the movie.Summary and Three classic scenesGrave of the Fireflies is based on a semi-autobiographical book by Nosaka Akiyuk ...

(6 pages) 41 1 4.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Kraft Foodservice

hes more than a billion people in 151 countries. Every day. One at a time.Kraft is structured along three dimensions, aligned with their global consumer sectors - beverages, cheese and dairy, convenie ...

(5 pages) 99 0 1.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Explain how resources are allocated in reference to the different economic systems?

- scarcity which means that the resources are limited but wants are infinite. This distribution has three dimensions:* What is to be produced* How is it to be produced* For whom is it to be produced.T ... nd thus it will improve health services.Though there are 3 main types of economic systems which sue three different methods of resource allocation, there is often, in developed countries a tendency to ...

(7 pages) 101 1 3.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Egyptian Art

For over three thousand years the Egyptians restricted themselves to a specific set of rules as to how a work ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.7 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

SMARTboard

ernet. However this technology would be useful for tasks such as rotating and inspecting objects in three dimensions (such as proteins, chemical structures, etc). Biologists and Organic Chemists could ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

In The Penal Colony

do. It describes a fire red sky at dawn, or eyes as blue as the ocean. It is the combination of all three dimensions that changes language from a way of communicating into an art form. It gives langua ... r to change us in a way that we will never be the same. Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" has all three of these dimensions, and its mastery of the utilization of them makes this work beautifully ho ...

(6 pages) 2112 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dimensions of Culture, Values and Communication

l they experience a different culture where the beliefs and values differ form their own. There are three primary dimensions of culture; language, physical, and psychological. Language is used primari ... ological dimension includes the beliefs and mental activities of the culture. The connection of the three dimensions can help one culture communicate with another; however you must understand your own ...

(6 pages) 98 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Alcoholics Anonymous

im" The Twelve Steps for Everyone, 1975, p. 15). For clarity of communication, an adaptation of the three dimensions of spirituality outlined in Brown et al. (1988) will be used. Brown used the follow ... elationship with others, relationship to self, and relationship with a higher power. Basic to these three dimensions is a sense of connection with self and other-than-self, and behaviors that reinforc ...

(7 pages) 79 0 5.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

ECU / VCS

nd engineer’s experience. The generation of such a look-uptable, however, is only suitable for three dimensions (two inputs and one output). Also, the generation and interpretation of such tables ...

(7 pages) 15 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Electrical Engineering

Personal Health Assessment

ow they affect my overall health.I believe that Emotional, Intellectual and Social Wellness are the three dimensions of heath that are my strongest. I believe that the qualities associated with emotio ...

(3 pages) 112 0 0.0 May/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays