Wave patterns on a computer monitor aboard the FLIP.
The designers, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, had tradition; inspired by Native American blankets, they created new geometric patterns on a computer and then turned them into wool jacquards and knits.
Berger's technology (see "10 Breakthrough Technologies: Memory Implants") is a way of recording memories of rats and monkeys, storing these patterns on a computer chip, and re-delivering them to the hippocampus.
To avoid our results being influenced by preconceptions, we removed all of the lettering from the tables but retained the shape and asked a total of 24 non-chemist undergraduate students, postgraduates and staff to view the patterns on a computer screen and rate them, while we tracked the position of their eyes (see Supplementary Information for detailed methodology and results).
Mizutani and her colleagues then reconstructed the insects' flight patterns on a computer.
His point is that the basic instructions that create intricate patterns on a computer screen will help us understand what creates similar patterns in nature.
These studies have shown that the perceived speed of two-dimensional moving objects for example, plaid patterns on a computer screen is underestimated when visual contrast is reduced.
Behind a window in an adjacent room, a splayed-out cauliflower pattern appears on a computer screen in black and white.
His book is packed with images of Sumerian mosaics and strawberries, earthquake fissures and leopard spots, thermonuclear mushroom clouds and streams of clear water--all modeled with uncanny precision, he says, by shimmering dot patterns generated on a computer screen by a few simple rules.
While uniform contrast reduction is a valid model to assess the perception of two-dimensional patterns moving on a computer screen, it is a poor model to investigate how an atmospheric phenomenon like fog affects motion perception in three-dimensional environments.
