Introduces space exploration, including the American and Soviet competition to reach space, the exploration of the Moon, and unmanned satellites exploring deep space.

Welcome to an incredible magic place where optical illusions and tricks befuddle and amuse. Kids won’t believe their eyes, as they try to figure out confounding conundrums, move through 3D mazes, and solve a host of other visually amazing and brain-twisting puzzles.

Introduces coral reefs, describing the marine animals and plants that incorporate the reef, how they cohabitate, and the relationship between predators and prey.

They’re alive! At least that’s how children will feel as they peer through the glasses at 3D pictures of creepy-crawlies. Learn where to find some of the rarest and most endangered bugs, get cool insect facts, and meet beetles, tarantulas, butterflies, and a small but deadly menace: the malaria transmitting anopheles mosquito.

A pioneering title, High Definition explores theonslaught of new and highly accurate digital metrology tools inlarge- and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. Capable ofmeasuring space to an accuracy of less than 1 mm, these tools offerunprecedented precision for the development and interrogation ofdesign before, during and post production. Over the last decade orso, the array of designers’ digital tools to propose and maketheir ideas have evolved significantly, but the absence ofhigh-accuracy, zero-tolerance design production has often remainedthe missing piece between design and fulfilment. Innovativetechnologies are thus substantially recalibrating the way thatdesigners operate in the world between the drawn and the made,having the power to transform the architect’s role from thatof visualiser to one that is intensely involved with therealisation of objects and buildings. High Definition willexamine the capabilities of advanced technologies in designproduction through their impact on design theory, practice andgreater levels of collaboration between design and manufacturing.It will permeate the entangled world between means and meaning andunravel a new understanding between the representation andproduction of architectural design. Contributors include: Philip Beesley, Centre for AdvancedSpatial Analysis, Gehry Technologies, Ruairi Glynn, Zaha HadidArchitects, ScanLAB Projects, Territorial Agency, Skylar Tibbits,Mike Webb.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2011, held in Ghent, Belgium, in August 2011. The 66 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on classification recognition, and tracking, segmentation, images analysis, image processing, video surveillance and biometrics, algorithms and optimization; and 3D, depth and scene understanding.