One of the scenes is 18 minutes long, another is 11 minutes, and he worries that a new generation of attention-deficient media consumers may find that just too much.
They're not just talking about the obvious visual similarities (300 makes extensive use of CGI environments and special effects); many have woefully put Zack Snyder's flick at the vanguard of a new cinema, aimed at a generation of attention-deficit gamers, where narrative drive is sacrificed at the altar of fetishised hyperviolence.
It takes a prized piece of art history, one polished to a glow by generations of attention, and turns it in an unexpected direction, so it catches the searching, scouring rays of new investigative light.
To understand how attention is implemented in the brain it is important to distinguish the control signals responsible for the generation and maintenance of attention (which originate in higher 'source' areas) from their effect on sensory processing and perception (which are visible in sensory areas as described in some detail below).
Our approach defines a model for the generation of an active attention focus on a dynamic scene captured from a still or moving camera.
Though Mylaraswamy et al. (1994) have proposed an algorithm for automatic generation of digraphs, little attention has been given to designing correct methodologies for DG analysis and their application to large problems.
Harvesting solar energy for vapor generation has attracted large amount of attention due to its promise for applications in water purification, desalination, power generation, and so on.
Does the Snapchat generation have the same sort of attention span or interest in games?
Having failed to take heed last time, Hutton may well be wondering, will the next generation of political leaders pay attention to him now?
But it took a new generation of musicians to draw attention to the fact that the lone, tousled guitarist playing at the bottom of your street was one of the most influential British musicians of the last few decades.
