This photographer prefers landscapes of the countryside over cities. Their photos contain a significant amount of sky and focus on nature like trees, fields, and mountains. The photos were taken in various locations including Japan, France, Belgium, and England. They use wide-angle shots with the main subject framed in the center. Different techniques were needed for bright versus overcast conditions. The strengths are framed composition and simple style, while weaknesses include some gloomy skies that could benefit from lightening.
EffectiveUI Senior Software Architect RJ Owen’s presentation from Flash Camp Denver, October 2010. Covers the basics of Adobe Flex framework, how to slice frames, Flex 4 component theory and life-cycle.
EffectiveUI Senior Software Architect RJ Owen’s presentation from Flash Camp Denver, October 2010. Covers the basics of Adobe Flex framework, how to slice frames, Flex 4 component theory and life-cycle.
Η παρουσίαση έγινε από τον κ. Θεόδωρο Αμπατζόπουλο (αναπληρωτή καθηγητή του τμήματος Βιολογίας του ΑΠΘ) στα πλαίσια της εκδήλωσης της ομάδας Νετρίνο "Ηλιακό Σύστημα <-> Πλανήτης Γη <-> Ζωή".
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
1. Unit 57: Photography and
Photographic Practice
Research of other photographers
work (P1, M1, D1)
Photographer:
Paste 6 images here include the name & date of image
2.
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4. Theme or focus of images
All of this photographer’s landscapes are set in the countryside instead of a
landscape of a city which suggests this is the setting he prefers. The majority of the
photos at least a third of the picture is sky which gives a nice contrast to the
landscape used, all of the shots are nature shots containing trees, fields, plants or
even mountains so we know this photographer enjoys the beauty of the nature and
try’s to capture it in his photos. Photo 1 was taken of Mount Fuji in Japan, Photo 2 and
3 was in France, Photo 4 was in Belgium, Photo 5, 6 and 7 was in England. This shows
this particular photographer doesn’t mind travelling to achieve his shots. These photos
if you want to buy them from the photographer range from £500-£750 so it’s obvious
other people enjoy his work and are willing to spend their hard earned money on his
art.
Composition
All of the shots are wide angle and we can see the photographer likes getting the
most in the frame that he can but capturing the best areas. Usually in this
photographers work the most important are of the photo is framed in the centre.
The photographer already gets a pretty wide angle on his photos but he could go
even further back but I don’t think that would improve it, because I think he’s just the
right distance from his centrepiece and main attraction for his photo.
Techniques used
Most of the photos because they are bright would have needed a reasonably fast
shutter speed to make sure the shot doesn’t get too bright but on the other hand
some of the shots are overcast so he would have needed to make it average so it
wasn’t too dark or too bright. There is a black and white filter on the first photo of
Mount Fuji and maybe some colour touch up on the tree in photo 7 to draw your eye
too it, done in post-production. Apart from that the photographer seems to take
pretty untouched photographs.
Strengths & Weaknesses
5. I think the strengths of his work is the framing of his shots and how the centre is always
where the most important part of the photo is. I also like how simple the photos are.
I think a couple of the weaknesses are some of the photos skies could have been
touched up and made to look more bright because a few are gloomy even though
it’s supposed to be a bright photo.
6. I think the strengths of his work is the framing of his shots and how the centre is always
where the most important part of the photo is. I also like how simple the photos are.
I think a couple of the weaknesses are some of the photos skies could have been
touched up and made to look more bright because a few are gloomy even though
it’s supposed to be a bright photo.
