Virtual Light is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the first book in his Bridge trilogy. Virtual Light is a science-fiction...
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The Virtual Light Machine (VLM) is a light synthesizer developed by Jeff Minter in 1990. It was installed into a number of electronics, including the Atari...
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called him the Jaguar's "leading developer". Minter also produced the Virtual Light Machine (VLM-1) for the Jaguar CD add-on. For VM Labs he created the...
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is essentially the same as ray tracing for computer graphics where virtual light rays are "cast" or "traced" on their path from the focal point of a...
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repair light leaks in these cases. A light leak, considered as a problem, is a kind of stray light. It is possible to have a "virtual" light leak in...
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The first story features former cop Berry Rydell, the protagonist of Virtual Light. Rydell quits a temporary job as a security guard at the Lucky Dragon...
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after the successful Sprawl trilogy. The trilogy comprises the novels Virtual Light (1993), Idoru (1996) and All Tomorrow's Parties (1999). A short story...
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easily by constructing a virtual model of a site, by merging aerial images (photogrammetry) and then vectoring in a virtual light source from any direction...
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speed of light times their momentum, but virtual photons can have any energy that is consistent with the uncertainty principle. This allows virtual photons...
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focus points of light rays coming from the object. A real image is the collection of focus points made by converging rays, while a virtual image is the collection...
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Rescue. Psychedelia (light synthesizer) Trip-a-Tron Virtual Light Machine Gibson, Ellie (2005-05-13). "Jeff Minter's X360 'light synth'". Eurogamer.net...
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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (category Films about virtual reality)
instead. Walker and his team at "Virtual Light Industries" plan on announcing the functions of the chip and its virtual city to the public and world leaders...
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Marcus' Virtual Light Table. Article copyright date 2006, retrieved 2006-11-09. Marcus, Ted R., Europe Through the Front Door, Ted Marcus' Virtual Light Table...
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William Gibson (category Virtual reality)
work. Gibson's second series, the "Bridge trilogy", is composed of Virtual Light (1993), a "darkly comic urban detective story", Idoru (1996), and All...
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is created in a virtual image. More specifically, the optical phased array is virtually formed with multiple virtual images of a light source. This is...
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Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world...
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script for Alien 3) seems particularly fascinated: A minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back...
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drive and built-in VLM (Virtual Light Machine) software by Jeff Minter, using a spectrum analyzer for a sophisticated video light show for audio CDs. It...
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A virtual particle is a theoretical transient particle that exhibits some of the characteristics of an ordinary particle, while having its existence limited...
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concept of virtual reality. These include William Gibson's 1984 Neuromancer, which defined the concept of cyberspace, and his 1994 Virtual Light, where a...
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trading figurines, light novels and audio drama CDs. The games in the series are as follows: Virtual On: Cyber Troopers (Virtual-On: Operation Moongate)...
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Augmented reality (redirect from AR Wall Virtual Set)
lighting technique is simply placing a light source overhead at the 12 o’clock position, to create shadows on virtual objects. Augmented reality has been...
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programmed by Jeff Minter (Llamasoft & Virtual Light Co.). The VLM developed after Jeff's earlier Llamasoft Light Synthesiser programme. With VLM, DI's...
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featured the "Atom-bomb type" Thomasson. William Gibson's 1993 novel Virtual Light also makes multiple references to Thomasson. In 2010 the Chikuma Shobō...
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Virgin London Marathon Virginia Lee Montgomery, American artist Virtual Light Machine Virtual Loadable Module, modular drivers of Novell's 16-bit NetWare...
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He continued to develop the light synthesizer concept, designing Colourspace (1985), Trip-a-Tron (1987), Virtual Light Machine (1990, 1994, 2000 and...
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Marcus' Virtual Light Table. Article copyright date 2006, retrieved 2006-11-09. Marcus, Ted R., Europe Through the Front Door, Ted Marcus' Virtual Light Table...
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Red Light Center (RLC) is an online virtual world was made available to the public in 2005 by Utherverse Inc. Its tag line is "EXPAND Your Fantasy". Red...
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(November 1998). "Posthuman Topologies: William Gibson's 'Architexture' in Virtual Light and Idoru". Science Fiction Studies. 5 (3): 459–480. ISSN 0091-7729...
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to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru (a Japanese virtual idol) of the title, a claim stranger than usual and therefore questioned...
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