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Movement Traced from Live Action: Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is a technique in which live-action footage is projected one frame at a time and traced over to create realistic movement. We look at how it was invented, how it works,
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Film & media
Rotoscoping is a technique in which live-action footage is projected one frame at a time and traced over to create realistic movement. We look at how it was invented, how it works,
Library & information science
Why are the papers on a subject concentrated in just a few journals? This article explains how Bradford's law came about, dividing journals into zones in the ratio 1 : n : n², its
Logistics
The lithium batteries in the smartphones we use every day, the gasoline we put in our cars, the sprays we use to repel mosquitoes in summer, and even the disinfectants used to prod
Psychology
In psychology, impressions are considered a very important concept, and the first impressions we form of other people or things have a very powerful influence. These impressions gr
Education
Andragogy is the art and science of helping adults learn. This article covers how the idea emerged, Malcolm Knowles’s six assumptions about adult learners, examples from everyday l
Social welfare
The principle of less eligibility holds that people receiving public relief must live at a lower standard than the poorest workers who support themselves. This piece covers why the
Business administration
An introduction to the blue ocean and red ocean, two basic concepts for understanding market environments, plus the purple ocean that combines them, explained through examples from
Library & information science
Information foraging theory, developed by Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card at Xerox PARC, explains how people search for information the way animals hunt for food. This article covers
Information technology
Kerckhoffs's Principle holds that a cryptographic system should stay secure even if everything except the key is known. This piece covers Auguste Kerckhoffs's 1883 “La Cryptographi
Tourism studies
Ecotourism is an important form of tourism that protects the natural environment and ecosystems while revitalizing local economies. The role and importance of ecotourism in buildin
Information technology
As technological advances and innovation accelerate, edge computing is attracting attention as a new approach to data processing. Developed to address the physical limitations of c
Film & media
Why does a slightly tilted frame make us uneasy? This article covers what the Dutch angle is, its roots in German Expressionism and the origin of its name, how film and TV have use