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This book contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics 200 1 (VG'O I) which took place on June 21 and June 22 at Stony Brook, New York. This year's event was the second in the series, following a successful premiere in Swansea, Wales, in March 1999, and was co-sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (TC-VG) as well as EUROGRAPHICS. The Volume Graphics Workshop is held bi-annually and has been created to pro vide a forum for the exploration and advancement of volume-based techniques, beyond the scope of just volume visualization. It brings together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industry, from many parts of the world. Volume graphics is in the process of evolving into a general graphics technology, and the papers included in these proceedings are testimonial to the wide spectrum of unique applications and solu tions that volumetric representations are able to offer.
To determine optimal cloud-seeding techniques and optimal design specifications for a dry-ice seeding machine (the Cloudbuster), multiple strip seeding of stratiform decks was performed during which seeding rate, pellet size, and strip orientation with respect to wind were systematically changed from strip to strip. Concurrently, the physical properties of the cloud decks were measured and cloud response (i. e., hole size, growth rate, etc.) to the varying treatments was measured photogrammetrically. Results showed that both the dry ice seeding rate and pellet size, as well as the cloud temperature, exerted a strong influence on cloud response. Seeding rate had an optimum of 8-9 lb/naut. mile of CO2 pellets whereafter additional quantities no longer influenced the experiment predictably. Generally, clouds failed to respond to treatment at 1.8 lb/naut. mile. A minimum recommended quantity of CO2 pellets is 4 lb/naut. mile using a 1 x 1 x 1 cm pellet of 0.5 g/cc density. This CO2 pellet has a fall distance of 1200 ft. When combined with other machine functions, this seeding rate and pellet size allow an output of 10,500 pellets/naut. mile. Cloud response approximately doubles between -5 C and -11 C.A response failure point exists between -3 C and -4 C. Strips should be seeded about 40 min worth of drift upwind of the desired location, and should be seeded across the wind. Seeding altitude for the aircraft should be coincident with the top of the deck for all but thickest decks (> 1200 ft). (Author).
A futuristic reimaging of the classic Greek myth, as a boy ventures through deep space and challenges the awesome power of black holes. The beauty of the book lies in the images, provided by NASA and the Hubble Space telescope, and printed on board rather than paper.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
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