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"refraction" Definitions
  1. the fact of light, radio waves, etc. changing direction when they go through water, air, glass, etc. at an angle

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In the front of the gallery, two installations — "Images in Refraction [East]" and "Images in Refraction [West]" — suggest works in progress.
Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald - Tim Hecker 211.
Slowing a wave changes its direction, a process called refraction.
The effect is caused by refraction of light entering water.
Refraction has backing from eLab Ventures and Trucks Venture Capital.
Somehow this endless, unconscious refraction of Hollywood history is his authenticity.
Both monsters a funhouse refraction of the norms and values that spawned them.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The word refraction is a good one.
The vibrant works aren't dichroic or iridescent, they are optical illusions caused by refraction.
Perhaps the novel-inchiesta is never a work of introspection, but always instead of refraction: a way to refract that which, as Umberto Eco wrote of this novel, "is already literature" before its refraction, its transcription, before its existence in a book.
When light travels through materials it changes direction and slows down, a process called refraction.
It turned out that atmospheric conditions had indeed changed, resulting in more humidity and refraction.
Vision tests, also known as refraction tests, measure a patient's prescription for eyeglasses or contacts.
He then realized that refraction tests could be conducted online, though it would be controversial.
But in this distorted refraction of 2016, Palin claimed the stage for herself, with a warning.
I think we're getting a multifaceted reflection/refraction of Nancy's development over time as an artist.
Partisan refraction has fueled the rise of fake news, according to researchers who study the phenomenon.
Before that becomes an issue, though, Refraction has to deal with a much bigger challenge: the weather.
This is called the "Schlieren effect" or "Schlieren flow," and it's based on the principle of refraction.
Despite being less technical, peanut oil has been a pretty good material for these liquid refraction pictures.
"The bottom line with subjective refraction is, it's dependent on how the patient is responding," Lee said.
Jo, originally Alcott's semiautobiographical cipher, might now be seen as another refraction of Gerwig's own semiautobiographical flourishes.
What is wrought in that refraction and in that witness tends to bear the test of time.
When the light leaves the lens it picks up speed again, and thus goes through a second refraction.
One of the challenges with this approach, Lake said, is making this light refraction work with curved lenses.
But he isn't expecting people to emerge educated about the index of refraction or how a laser works.
He also introduces pure pigment into his paint, which affects the refraction of light bouncing off the surface.
"Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald" isn't a rendition of a song, but a utilization of a songwriting process.
My mother was an actress, which added another refraction: I grew up watching her pretend to be other people.
Refraction is building a small robot that sticks to the bike lane, making food deliveries in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
If C-SPAN is a refraction of the public, the gulf between citizens can at times seem overwhelming, unfixable.
Refraction AI came out of stealth last week, unveiling its autonomous delivery robot REV-1 onstage at a TechCrunch event.
In the story, his explorations of how the aliens perceive light refraction winds up informing Louise's new understanding of time.
Most examples in nature — the clear autumn sky, the blue jay's vibrant feathers, butterfly wing spots — originate in light refraction.
The A91 Edition gets an exclusive color option called "Refraction," matte-black wheels, carbon-fiber mirror caps, and C-pillar graphics.
The optical illusion appears to be the result of water refraction, and it had commenters questioning how the photo was achieved.
Here we explored different ideas to achieve a realistic look of extreme refraction but also retain the performance of her eyes.
In a refraction of the political chaos, violent clashes broke out once the legislative session came to a close on Tuesday.
Changes in the speed of sound (or for that matter light) cause sound (or light) waves to bend, a phenomenon known as refraction.
With ray tracing, you could simulate how rays of light interact with objects, producing realistic reflection, refraction, and scattering effects in real time.
He's looking out pensively over a moonlit sea...but the refraction from the water makes his torso look directly connected to his knees.
Your refraction might not yet be "stable"—in other words, your prescription's still changing, meaning your odds of needing revision surgery later on increase.
And with digitally controlled refraction, new technologies — and new medical insights — could be passed along to your smart glasses through a simple firmware update.
He spoke of how a psychiatric hospital should be like a refraction of society in miniature, since it had a residential aspect to it.
Deri authored a book called Love's Refraction, which focuses on how polyamorous couples deal with jealousy and learn to love their partner loving other people.
The company acknowledges that diamond can have a higher index of refraction than glass, but it explained that it tunes the material to reduce reflectivity.
News flash: Rainbows are a natural phenomenon, a refraction of light that occurs through water or a prism, and none of us technically "own" it.
Where did the acoustic playing of the saxophonist — in this performance, the impressive Ryan Muncy — stop, and where did the hall-enveloping electronic refraction begin?
By acting as magnets for the refraction of natural and artificial light and atmospheric condensation, the bottles poetically retraced the gallery's 24-year exhibition history.
"Robotaxis have been three years away for probably the last five years," said Matthew Johnson-Roberson, co-founder of Refraction AI, a startup making delivery robots.
Asus ROG has concocted a solution for those pesky monitor bezels that tarnish an otherwise gorgeous three-monitor gaming setup — and it involves lenses and light refraction.
Seismic reflection profiling is a technique geologists use to peer deep into Earth's crust, by measuring the reflection and refraction of seismic waves as they travel downwards.
The video, shot by Cox himself, was shot in Florida, New York, and Italy, but it's less a collection of recognizable cityscapes, more a refraction of sunlight.
But because the two materials possess roughly the same index of refraction, light passed from one through the other without bending, and the letters were almost invisible.
Refraction AI launched lunch service in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thursday with its fleet of REV-1 delivery robots only about a year after the company first formed.
Accessing the celebratory spirit inherent in a multiplicity of soul voices, she presents that spirit through refraction — conceptual framing devices, dizzy musical transitions — by way of generous affirmation.
The objects gathered on or near the door and windows on the east, or right, side of the gallery's facade, constitute the installation "Images in Refraction (East)" (2019).
A meteorologist for the CBC says the weird glow is probably thanks to light scattering, caused by the refraction of the setting sun on particles in the atmosphere.
For his part, Eliasson is creating a rainbow — hardly shocking for the Danish artist — that is formed in the virtual world by the refraction of light on a waterfall.
HASABIE KIDANU: For me, it serves to think about my ideas through fragmentation or refraction because I do believe that there isn't really one perspective of looking at something.
This mantis, however, was able to see the fish during both dusk and night conditions, while also having to overcome and adapt to the refraction of light through the water.
As magical as we like to think rainbows are, they're simply a refraction of light through water or a prism — a completely natural phenomenon of which no one has ownership.
" Engineers had created a rig to rough-dry hair, and a cabinet that "measures the light refraction, how glossy or shiny it is—the flyaways, the smoothness, and the orderliness.
Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora continues at Steven Kasher gallery (515 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) until June 2 with a closing reception on the last day.
Refraction, a new autonomous delivery robot company that came out of stealth Wednesday at TC Sessions: Mobility, sees opportunity in areas most AV startups are avoiding: regions with the worst weather.
The curtain opens and we see Mélisande in a wedding dress, entering a room and falling asleep; the opera proper is her dream, and presumably a refraction of her "real" life.
In a short book, refraction can seem like repetition when several characters, each responding directly to the reader with his or her own "version of extremism," overlap and reinforce one another.
The narrative might have a layer of irony on the page, but onscreen, the protagonist's refraction of each incident through its impact on his monomaniacal mom has a slightly ludicrous quality.
Who gets culled may hinge less on choices about nanometers and materials than on drudgier realities, says Matt Johnson-Roberson, CEO of Refraction AI, which is developing an autonomous delivery vehicle.
It was a trick of light founded on 150-year-old theater prop standard called "Pepper's Ghost," which uses glass and some knowledge of refraction to create an otherworldly-looking figure.
The trick of the lensmaker's art is to grind the two surfaces into such shapes that the sum of all this refraction brings the light passing through the lens to a focus.
But in its New York premiere at the BAM Harvey Theater, as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, it reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.
We skimmed over information about different wavelengths of light, including radio waves and X-rays, and the law of refraction describing how light bends when entering a material like water or glass.
But that image is not some Narcissus-like reflection; it is more of an oblique refraction that allows us to see ourselves in a novel way, and in a slightly alien manner.
Here observation gives way to imagination — the surface of Deimos, the outer Martian satellite, appears as parched clay — but these too relied on models and calculations of atmosphere, shadow and light refraction.
C-SPAN, as Remillard put it, is a refraction of the public: Republicans and Democrats and the disappearing middle all coming to the same forum, all working through it in real time.
It wants to sit between the long-haul trucks of Kodiak, Pronto, Starsky, and Ike, and the last-mile delivery work of Nuro, Boxbot, Refraction, and sidewalk robots shops like Marble and Starship.
In film music, I often think of that latter thing, trying to make something that doesn't build up what's already there visually, but sort of argues against it, gives another refraction of it.
Some other graphical improvements coming to Minecraft, thanks to ray tracing, include direct lighting from the sun, more realistic shadows, and transparent materials like stained glass and water with reflection and refraction effects.
The second category of WPT includes technologies that use high frequencies to create powerful electromagnetic waves and then focus those waves, via refraction or reflection, into beams, to transmit energy over longer distances.
Even Isaac Newton once wrote: Doth not the Refraction of Light proceed from the different density of this Æthereal Medium in different places, the Light receding always from the denser parts of the Medium?
Reflection Study, created by Zachary Lieberman, is based on a series of software explorations of how light reflects and how festivalgoers can paint with light by using different techniques such as refraction and caustics.
At least once a month, Matt Johnson-Roberson, CEO of Refraction AI, goes over such stats, along with things like how often the computers crash and how reliably Refraction's vehicles follow their software's instructions.
Differences in refraction across the lens, as well as imperfections in its shape and materials, all contribute to some of those light rays, especially those entering the lens near its outer edges, missing the target.
While rooted in direct observation, his work often veers into the territory of abstraction by utilizing darkness, reflective glare, and refraction, all of which serve to dissolve the unity of the subject and disorient the viewer.
The doctors conducted an auto-refraction using a portable computer device that measured the eye's refractive needs on the patients, and then matched the best fit of donated eyeglasses they could find,' he told VICE Impact.
There's still just 300 ppi in the screen (same as you'd find in the Kindle Voyage), but Amazon told me the white gamut is wider and, more importantly, the lighting and screen refraction is brand new.
With advanced digital refraction technology integrated into the eyewear itself, it could also potentially watch the wearer's eyes and reduce eye strain by subtly changing its treatment of light in response to increasing fatigue throughout the day.
In "Hot Dog Sun" (2017), sausage links fanning out from a yellow half-circle serve as rays of light, while elsewhere overlapping forms are colored in disparate hues to suggest transparency, refraction or multiple points of view.
By controlling the refraction through software, we can take vision far beyond its current limitations, adding features like optical zoom and low-light enhancement on a remarkably short timeline — perhaps as little as five years, with sufficient investment.
To me, the ultimate act of refraction that Slave Play enacts is to serve as a microcosm of the act and effect of colonization — in its horror, perversion, the way it twists desire and irrevocably warps human relationships.
Hiwa K retraces the route he traveled as a refugee fleeing Iraq while balancing a set of mirrors on the bridge of his nose on "Pre-image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)," a gorgeous reflection (and refraction) of his life.
This was taken in Manitoba, Canada Feel free to share from my page and follow #explorecanada #exploremb #501northphotography The halos form because of refraction, or the bending of waves of light through ice crystals in the shape of hexagonal prisms.
To grasp the range of issues that come into play with the movement of people of the African Diaspora — away from the continent, around the world, and back again — the notion of a refraction is a generative place to begin.
His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, is a tangle of nested tales that starts with a monkey in Bombay pounding away on a typewriter, spinning out an epic that contains a hall-of-mirrors refraction of other storytellers telling stories.
Rather, his "Transitive Refraction for John Oswald" was conceived as an homage to the name-checked Toronto sound artist and his ground-breaking 270 release, Grayfolded, which obliterated and reconfigured several hundred live recordings of the Dead's "Dark Star" into infinitely rippling symphonies.
More than that, it is a visual history of the aspects of American life that comic books have reflected, though they have functioned less as a mirror than a prism, offering a strange and wonderful refraction of a nation's concerns and mores.
The phenomenon started with a meteor crashing into a lighthouse, and from that point of impact, the Shimmer has gradually spread, creating an area of refraction where DNA is reflected and folded into itself, causing unsettling duplicates, crossbreeds, and echoes of familiar life.
The REV-53 is lightweight and low cost — there are no expensive lidar sensors on the vehicle — it operates in a bike lane and is designed to travel in rain or snow, Johnson-Roberson, co-founder and CEO of Refraction told TechCrunch.
His exact setup is explained in the video, but essentially, it allows the camera to see dark and bright spots created by changes in light's index of refraction as photons travel from the LED, to the mirror, and back to the camera's lens.
As a child of a Japanese immigrant, I find that my relationship with Japan is a blend of my own lived experience and the refraction of memories from both my own childhood years here and my mother's, and her longing to return.
A separate installation, "Images in Refraction (West)" (2019), composed of digital projections and a meandering line of photographs, serves as a conduit joining "Crescent (Timekeeper)" and the windows on the west, or right side of the facade, emphasizing the importance of interrelation in Sze's art.
It's a refraction of reality, containing feelings and thoughts that are put forth, first, in a primary text, which the actor interprets—an interpretation that the director supports or edits, in an attempt to help build, in a made-up world, an atmosphere of verisimilitude.
Compared to someone who only graduated high school in the UK, the eyes of a person who graduated with a university degree had an average difference of -1 dioptres, a measurement of lenses refraction (the less dioptres, relative to perfect eyesight, the more myopic we are).
Seemingly anyone born between 1982 and 1995, of any gender and creed, can find something to like in the film, whether it's the clothes or Meryl or the glossy refraction of the contemporary American dream: suffering through a creative-class internship that might lead to career advancement.
Like most of the record's best moments—as I wrote yesterday—Zanca's unflagging delivery lends to the feeling that this a refraction of the history of easy listening music, sorta Pure Moods pop complicated by the fact that its ultimately a song about the disappointment of adulthood.
The exhibition, Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora at Steven Kasher gallery demonstrates how the enduring vitality of the continent's traditional rituals of body adornment, masking, costuming, and spirit invocation are reinterpreted by image makers of African descent born between the 1970s and 1990s.
While My Mirage is a refraction of Shaw's background and American culture in the latter half of the 20th century, the artist's invented religion, Oism, reflects his interest in the self-created religions that emerged in the mid-19th century and came to his attention while researching My Mirage.
That confusion could prove dangerous, says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, a director of the University of Michigan and Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles and CEO of the food delivery robot startup Refraction AI. Smart Summon "ultimately may negatively impact the perception of full self-driving if it doesn't work flawlessly," he says.
I like the elaborate period costumes as much as anyone else, but I'm most drawn to these narratives' refraction of the realities of our current world — its enduring obsessions with class, and propriety, and women's performance of both — in a way that feels so much more honest and real than the vast majority of contemporary Hollywood.
"Ultimately, one of the challenges of self-driving is that you're trying to predict human behavior, and human behavior tends to not fall into rational agent models we have for game players," says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, assistant professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and the cofounder of Refraction AI, a startup building autonomous delivery vehicles.
It was as if he'd forgotten—had been made to forget, perhaps by the overt mortality of Ed and his car, perhaps by the refraction of his love for my mother through the person of me—that he and I didn't have a real history together; had spent, in our lives, no more than a cumulative week with each other.

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