A lens is a device for either concentrating or diverging light, usually produced from a piece of shaped glass. Lenses do not form perfect images, and there is always some degree of distortion or aberration introduced by the lens which causes the image to be an defective replica of the object. Careful design of the lens system for a exacting application ensures that the aberration is minimized. There are several different types of aberration which can influence image quality.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Automobile
An automobile (also motor car or simply car) is a wheeled traveler vehicle that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run mostly on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.However, the term is far from precise.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Apple Computer
Apple Computer, Inc. NASDAQ: AAPL is a
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Multithreading in Java
Friday, May 2, 2008
A short note on Usable groundwater
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Informative Modeling
Informative modeling applies to the learning of historic structural design, where purposes have most frequently been ample converted, and as a result where what is recognized about entities remains incomplete. As an effect, whereas in conventional architectural modeling a pragmatic depiction of points is measured as an end, in the informative modeling tactic the illustration of architectural objectives is used principally as sustain for information exploration and revelation, reckoning and cognition: it does not endeavor for pragmatism.
Pensiveness and figuration are incorporated as substitute/mixable forms of depiction, permitting biased facts to be corresponded and significant concepts in momentous disciplines such as data ambiguity to be suggested realistically.