The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Revenant were all nominated for best picture, but they are also competing in categories of production design, makeup and hairstyling, costume design, and visual effects – as you'd expect from visually stunning masterpieces.
An infographic from Visually offers some alternatives, like providing clean water to a billion people.
She spoke about it on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and was flooded with positive responses from visually impaired listeners.
Maybe they'll be able to detect, from the form of the message, "This seems to be something we've seen from visually oriented species, or auditory-oriented species".
"Some of the nicest letters I get are from visually impaired people who say I'm their only link to the team," Hughes said.
The landmarks, meanwhile, can be of all kinds – from visually imposing buildings such as the war-scarred Holiday Inn or Kahraba Lubnan (the electricity company with a sign that's never entirely lit up), to popular shops and eateries – less random than the stairway dog, but in equally strategic locations.
The results, though far from visually beautiful (and here the analogy to Braque and Picasso ends), are nevertheless strangely, almost perversely entrancing, largely because the enterprise, which at first seems unwatchable — this is, after all, nearly five hours of jumpy, often blurry newscasts — becomes an increasingly gripping story of revolt, courage and power.
The vessel segments themselves were from visually healthy tissue.
Thus, it was difficult to calculate g I from visually observed crack length.
The paper describes an intelligent manufacturing control system, designed to optimise flat material cutting from visually inspected scenes.
