Tilt-Shift photos are the ones that look like they are of a miniature scene, but are really a trick of the focus and depth-of-field. You can do it with a special lens, or with software. Which is now available online: Tilt Shift Maker
Here’s a picture of rock-stacking from my trip to Monterey, tilt-shifted:
If confirmed as expected, Chu may well set sparks flying at the staid agency. Over the past four years, Chu has realigned the DoE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California into a pioneer for alternative-energy research.
Using an ice-hockey analogy, Eddy Rubin, director both of the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and of the genomics division at the LBNL, says: “You can’t stay where the puck is — you have to skate where the puck is going to be. [Chu] had a compelling vision to put the lab where it needs to be.”
And I wonder who the Goons are going to be, to do the necessary forechecking?
According to the division directors, Chu said he would take the job if he could select the approximately 15 political appointees who would direct key DoE components. In the early days of the Bush administration, vice-president Dick Cheney was behind most of those appointments. Instead, “Chu will get to select the smartest people he knows”, says Rubin.
I was recently learning and reading about Haidinger’s Brush
Unlike some other types of animals, humans generally don’t perceive polarization of light, or rather we do so very weakly so it’s not something we normally notice. The link explains how to check for it and what to look for.
The eyes of men (AND women) are not designed to distinguish between different types of polarization, contrary to insects, cephalopods, many amphibians, fish, and other animals, for which nature possesses a different class of “colors” (but even common colors do not mean the same to everyone). However, a small quirk in the structure of the human eye gives us (by accident) the ability to tell apart different states of polarization. Thanks to this small aberration or “defect” of the eye we are not completely polarization-blind.
Yes !!! With some effort you can learn to see what remains invisible to most people! Without the help of any instrument you will be able to tell not only if the light you look at is strongly polarized or not, but also if it is linearly polarized or circularly polarized and, moreover, in which direction it vibrates or rotates. Any time that you raise your eyes to the blue sky you will be rewarded by the same clues that guide bees in their flight. Acquire P-Ray Vision !
I tried it with my LCD monitor (which, as we know, is polarized) with both a white and blue background, the latter for contrast to show the yellow. I think I see the yellow brush, but it’s not very distinct. I’ll keep trying, but I don’t think this is like those 3-D drawings that jump out at you all of the sudden.
Here’s another link explaining the phenomenon.