Cyclopean

Cyclopean
Author: Richard Leviton
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1663215472

A TEAM OF GEOMANCERS PROBE MEGALITHIC SITES FOR THE TRUE STORY OF THE GIANTS AND CYCLOPES OF MYTH AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR TODAY Seasoned Boston book editor Edward Burbage vividly records the adventures of himself and two colleagues as they participate in the final dissolution of an old enemy of humanity, the healing of an antique wound, and the restoration of an equally old mythic but real figure. The pursuit of these goals takes them all over the planet, starting off in England but traveling to France, Spain, Ireland, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Peru, the United States, and finishing in the South Island of New Zealand on the top of a formidable snow-capped peak. The story is a myth-living evocation of many of the key themes of Western mythology, such as the Wounded Fisher King, the Dolorous Stroke, the grim Wasteland, the bright Avalon of the Summer Country, the numinous Castle of the Holy Grail, the Grail Knights who dedicate their lives to questing for the holy object, and the lingering, intriguing tales of Cyclopes, the one-eyed giants of humanity’s deep past, credited with building the world’s megalithic features. The story takes place in the ultra-modern setting of 2090 as they chase the possible reality and significance of Cyclopes for current times. Burbage and his companions couldn’t have better helpers. They’re tutored by an angelic order called the Elohim, humanity’s godparents, prime benefactors, and, it turns out, the fabled Cyclopes. They’ve preserved a heavenly sword for humanity, and that’s the centerpiece of the whole affair. The ending of the reign of domination by humanity’s perpetual enemy—Ahriman, also known as the Antichrist, all-time liar, destroyer, and champion “bad guy” of the world. Burbage’s team needs this sword because the outcome of these encounters affects the next phase of Earth’s scripted destiny—the rehabilitation of humanity’s alignment with the intended design of reality.

Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Author: Ian P. Howard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 756
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780195084764

This is a comprehensive survey of binocular vision, with an emphasis on its role in the perception of a three-dimensional world. The central theme is biological vision. Machine vision and computational models are discussed where they contribute to an understanding of living systems.

The Motion Aftereffect

The Motion Aftereffect
Author: George Mather
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262133432

Motion perception lies at the heart of the scientific study of vision. The motion aftereffect (MAE) is the appearance of directional movement in a stationary object or scene after the viewer has been exposed to viusal motion in the opposite direction. For example, after one has looked at a waterfall for a period of time, the scene beside the waterfall may appear to move upward when one's gaze is transfered to it. Although the phenomenon seems simple, research has revealed copmlexities in the underlying mechanisms, and offered general lessons about how the brain processes visual information. In the 1990s alone, more than 200 papers have been published on MAE, largely inspired by improved techniques for examining brain electrophysiology and by emerging new theories of motion perception.

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2
Author: Ian P. Howard
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2012-02-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199764158

Volume 2 addresses stereoscopic vision. It starts with the physiology of stereoscopic mechanisms. It then deals with binocular rivalry, binocular summation, and interocular transfer. A review of how images are brought into binocular register is followed by a review of stimulus tokens used to detect disparities. Cyclopean effects, such as cyclopean illusions, cyclopean motion, texture segregation, and binocular direction are reviewed. Factors that influence stereoacuity are discussed. Two chapters describe how stimuli in distinct depth planes produce contrast effects, and affect motion perception and whiteness perception. The Pulfrich stereomotion effect and perception of motion in depth are reviewed. The volume ends with a review of applications of stereoscopy.

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2: Stereoscopic Vision

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2: Stereoscopic Vision
Author: Ian P. Howard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2012-01-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199877351

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 2 addresses stereoscopic vision in cats and primates, including humans. It begins with an account of the physiology of stereoscopic mechanisms. It then deals with binocular rivalry, binocular summation, binocular masking, and the interocular transfer of visual effects, such as the motion aftereffect and visual learning. The geometry of the region in binocular space that creates fused images (the horopter) is discussed in some detail. Objects outside the horopter produce images with binocular disparities that are used for stereoscopic vision. Two chapters provide accounts of mechanisms that bring the images into binocular register and of stimulus tokens that are used to detect binocular disparities. Another chapter discusses cyclopean effects, such as cyclopean illusions, cyclopean motion, and binocular direction that are seen only with binocular vision. Stereoacuity is the smallest depth interval that can be detected. Methods of measuring stereoacuity and factors that influence it are discussed. Two chapters deal with the various types of binocular disparity and the role of each type in stereoscopic vision. Another chapter deals with visual effects, such as figure perception, motion perception, and whiteness perception that are affected by the relative distances of stimuli. The spatiotemporal aspects of stereoscopic vision, including the Pulfrich stereomotion effect are reviewed. The volume ends with an account of techniques used to create stereoscopic displays and of the applications of stereoscopy.

The Cannibal's Cookbook

The Cannibal's Cookbook
Author: Brandon Clifford
Publisher: Oro Editions
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781951541439

The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the careless building practices of the present. With one foot in the past and another in the present, the cookbook bridges the realities of our ancestors and ourselves. We propose a series of architectural "recipes" after dining on this body of past expertise. The recipes are deciphered from ancient cyclopean masonry systems, but with a contemporary twist. They cannibalize leftover debris--building rubble that typically stuffs our landfills--to construct new buildings

Destined for Distinguished Oblivion

Destined for Distinguished Oblivion
Author: Nicholas J. Wade
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461502136

William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremost, and forgotten, American scientists of the eighteenth century. He should be acknowledged as laying the foundations for modern studies of vestibular function as well as eye movements. This book reprints his Essay on single vision with two eyes (1792) and his own Memoir of his life (1818). Wells’ essay on natural selection is reprinted as an Appendix. Wells' experiments and observations on natural phenomena will surprise students of science because of their modernity.

The Cyclopean Mistress

The Cyclopean Mistress
Author: Peter Redgrove
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this book's title-piece, the Cyclopean Mistress is a teacher with a single eye in the middle of her forehead, someone with 'unified vision'. The book too has unified vision: its short fictions and prose poems aren't separate forms but merge into each other like the continuous spectrum of colours in a rainbow. Redgrove begins with short fictions, but gradually withdraws the narrative scaffolding, asking the reader to respond instead to an alternative and possibly more dramatic pattern of imagery, where a narrative exists but is unspoken: 'It is like waking from a deep sleep and seeing the world new, but stripped of its procedures.' At the end of the rainbow, Redgrove's all-seeing eye penetrates the Esplumeor, Merlin's prison, variously interpreted as a bewitched bed, a house of glass, an observatory with 84 windows, a place where falcons moult or where the magician with sexual laughter puts off his accustomed forms, or a place where a person uses his plume or pen. His prose-poems here are about Cornwall, where he lives, 'and where it is not easy to tell whether one is in a dungeon or a paradise, as it depends on the way the wind is blowing'.