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Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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200Ts Vision of Vision One of my formative childhood experiences
was in 1968 stepping into the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue
in Washington, DC, one of the few movie theaters nationwide that
projected in large-screen cinerama. I was there at the urging of a
friend, who said I simply must see the remarkable film whose run
had started the previous week. "You won't understand it," he said,
"but that doesn't matter. " All I knew was that the film was about
science fiction and had great special eflPects. So I sat in the
front row of the balcony, munched my popcorn, sat back, and
experienced what was widely touted as "the ultimate trip: " 2001: A
Space Odyssey. My friend was right: I didn't understand it. . . but
in some senses that didn't matter. (Even today, after seeing the
film 40 times, I continue to discover its many subtle secrets. ) I
just had the sense that I had experienced a creation of the highest
aesthetic order: unique, fresh, awe inspiring. Here was a film so
distinctive that the first half hour had no words whatsoever; the
last half hour had no words either; and nearly all the words in
between were banal and irrelevant to the plot - quips about
security through Voiceprint identification, how to make a phonecall
from a space station, government pension plans, and so on.
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