Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Besame Mucho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9same_Mucho

Monday, April 05, 2010

Semiotics

Semiotics: "Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches:
- Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata
- Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
- Pragmatics: Relation between signs and their effects on those (people) who use them"

Sunday, February 07, 2010

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Uncanny valley

Uncanny valley: "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics[1] and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness."

Ogive

Ogive: "An ogive ('Oh-jive') is the roundly tapered end of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional object."

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Sunday, January 24, 2010