System integration report

Several areas that arise from the system integration issue were examined. Intersystem analysis is discussed as it relates to software development, shared data bases and interfaces between TEMPUS and PLAID, shaded graphics rendering systems, object design (BUILD), the TEMPUS animation system, anthropometric lab integration, ongoing TEMPUS support and maintenance, and the impact of UNIX and local workstations on the OSDS environment

Ted Hughes : speaking for the earth.

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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes\u27s life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes\u27s work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer\u27s auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination wandered, Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes\u27s artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes\u27s work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century\u27s greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself. R. Baxter Miller is professor of English and director of the Black Literature Program at the University of Tennessee. His published works include Reference Guide to Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks and Black American Literature and Humanism. The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes provides an intricate and multifaceted interpretation of the literary imagination of this American artist. —Colin Enriquez, Kritikon Litterarum Miller offers a biocritical reading of Hughes\u27s writings that explores the characteristic themes of the writer\u27s art and examines how his imagination was fired by black folk culture and his memories of the women in his life. —Booklist Ambitious and innovative. Miller sheds new light on many of the \u27neglected masterpieces.\u27 . . . [This book] assumes a vital place in our holdings on Langston Hughes. —American Literaturehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1043/thumbnail.jp

Constance Cary Harrison, Refugitta of Richmond : A Nineteenth-Century Southern Woman Writer\u27s Critically Intriguing Antislavery Narrative Strategy

Although often maligned by literary scholars, Constance Cary Harrison, nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story author, achieved popular success with her subtle, but often radical, explorations of gender, and slavery during the antebellum and post-Civil War years. Furthermore, Harrison developed innovative characterizations of African-Americans while seeking nineteenth-century southern and northern readership through conciliatory prose. In particular, Harrison characterized a slave who gained his freedom and maintained a successful, independent life, without white assistance. This unique perspective for a Southern writer of her era stemmed from the war time destruction of her homestead, Vaucluse, which compelled Harrison to recreate an idealized perspective of the South, influenced, no doubt by her matriarchal family\u27s vexed position as the first Virginians to manumit their slaves, and then, subsequently, to hire neighboring plantation slaves as servants

The resurgence of myth in the 1970s in the poetry of Ted Hughes and R.S. Thomas : a Jungian perspective.

This thesis attempts to introduce Jungian concepts to the study of poetry through a critical examination of the poetry written in the 1970s by Ted Hughes and R.S.Thomas. My Introduction examines two contrasting approaches to literature, the mythical and the historical, defines myth, and introduces aspects of a Jungian approach to literature, including the many-angled approach and analogy. Chapter One explains the Jungian concepts of the Archetype and the Collective Unconscious in a discussion of Crow, and also explores the mythological material relevant to the poems of Crow. Chapter Two deals with the Jungian idea of Compensation, and brings this, as well as the idea of the archetype and the collective unconscious, to bear on the mythological material relevant to Gaudete. Chapter Three introduces Jung's Individuation process and discusses the mythological sources of Cave Birds, in particular Ancient Egyptian myth and Alchemy. At the end of the chapter there is a brief discussion of Jung and Hughes, acting as a sort of conclusion to my discussions of Hughes. Chapter Four uses the philosophy of Kierkegaard to explore the 1970s poetry of R.S.Thomas within a Jungian framework which includes ideas of the archetype, the collective unconscious, compensation and individuation. Jung's idea of Psychological Types is also briefly explored in this chapter. Chapter Five finds in Gnostic literature clear parallels with R.S.Thomas' poetry, and, using the Jungian concepts already mentioned, goes on to suggest that R.S.Thomas attempts to modify Christianity in accordance with the beliefs of the Gnostics. My Conclusion finds that many of the authorities quoted in this thesis call for a reorientation of society along the lines of the mythologies discussed in earlier chapters, and goes on to suggest that there is an unexplored unconscious history of the West

An examination of the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" in the poetry and prose of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.

Throughout Ted Hughes' work, the "lack" that he sees as the fundamental constituent of Western culture is approached in terms of gender. His work is informed by the belief that the history of patriarchal civilization is a record of exile from a plenitude of being, an Imaginary unity with what is troped as a maternal nature. The role of literature is, in some way, to restore the alienated subject to fulfilment, the latter taking two forms: an expanded, visionary male, in the quest-romances of the 1970s, who bears comparison with Blake's Sons of Eternity: and, in his later poetry, a less hyperbolic quasi-Wordsworthian worshipper of a humanized, feminine nature. In the case of Seamus Heaney, whilst the prose explores modes of writing revolving around a masculine/feminine polarity, the vexed issues of colonialism and nationalism prompt, in the 1970s, a series of "sexual conceits" which express his sense of alienation from a motherland violated by "masculine" imperial ism. The archetypal and mythic parallels which inform these concerns come under increasing scrutiny in the more recent work, which, in a comparable manner to Hughes, can be read as a -demythologizing" of earlier preoccupations. What both writers' use of gender reveals is an intense engagement with history; their notions of masculinity and femininity are to be seen as part of a formal attempt to find aesthetic resolutions to socio-political conditions which, in various ways, limit and circumscribe individual desire and gratification

Efficient shadow algorithms on graphics hardware

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92).Shadows are important to computer graphics because they add realism and help the viewer identify spatial relationships. Shadows are also useful story-telling devices. For instance, artists carefully choose the shape, softness, and placement of shadows to establish mood or character. Many shadow generation techniques developed over the years have been used successfully in offline movie production. It is still challenging, however, to compute high-quality shadows in real-time for dynamic scenes. This thesis presents two efficient shadow algorithms. Although these algorithms are designed to run in real-time on graphics hardware, they are also well-suited to offline rendering systems. First, we describe a hybrid algorithm for rendering hard shadows accurately and efficiently. Our method combines the strengths of two existing techniques, shadow maps and shadow volumes. We first use a shadow map to identify the pixels in the image that lie near shadow discontinuities. Then, we perform the shadow-volume computation only at these pixels to ensure accurate shadow edges. This approach simultaneously avoids the edge aliasing artifacts of standard shadow maps and avoids the high fillrate consumption of standard shadow volumes. The algorithm relies on a hardware mechanism that we call a computation mask for rapidly rejecting non-silhouette pixels during rasterization. Second, we present a method for the real-time rendering of soft shadows. Our approach builds on the shadow map algorithm by attaching geometric primitives that we call smoothies to the objects' silhouettes. The smoothies give rise to fake shadows that appear qualitatively like soft shadows, without the cost of densely sampling an area light source.(cont.) In particular, the softness of the shadow edges depends on the ratio of distances between the light source, the blockers, and the receivers. The soft shadow edges hide objectionable aliasing artifacts that are noticeable with ordinary shadow maps. Our algorithm computes shadows efficiently in image space and maps well to programmable graphics hardware.by Eric Chan.S.M

FIELD, Issue 56, Spring 1997

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