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      <title>VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this article the author uses projective relations as the theoretical foundation of his investigations of visual space and motion.  Several laboratory experiments involving perceptual vector analysis and its geometric basis are described.  In most of the experiments the visual stimuli consisted of computer-controlled patterns displayed on a televisionlike screen and projected into the eyes of subjects by means of a collimating device that removed parallax as well as the possibility of seeing the screen.  A common characteristics of the experiments was that the observer was evidently not free to choose between a Euclidean interpretation of the changing geometry of the figure in the display and a projective interpretation.  For example, the observer could not persuade himself that what he was seeing was simply a square growing larger and smaller in the same visual plane; his visual system insisted on telling him that he was seeing a square of constant size approaching and receding.  Hence he perceived rigid motion in depth, rotation in a specific slant, bending in depth and so on, paired with the highest possible degree of object constancy.  Further experiments were conducted to determine if the principles of perceptual analysis hold true for the more complex paterns of motions encountered in everyday life.  These experiments led to the conclusion that during locomotion the components of the human visual environment are interpreted as rigid structures in relative motion.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PLANE COORDINATES FOR ENGINEERING AND CADASTRAL SURVEYS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE FUNDAMENTALS OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND THEIR USEFULNESS ARE PRESENTED. BRIEF MENTION IS MADE OF TWO TYPES OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN USE -- THE STATE PLANE COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND THE UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR (UTM) SYSTEM. THE NEED FOR KEEPING DATUM DISTYANCES AND DISTANCES ON THE GROUND IN AGREEMENT -- WITHIN SMALL INHERENT DIFFERENCES -- IS STRESSED. THE PRINCIPLES OF APPLICATION ARE GIVEN FOR THE PROPOSED WORLDWIDE COORDINATE SYSTEM, WHICH COMPRISES A TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION BY 2 DEG WIDTH ZONES. THE SYSTEM PRESENTED WOULD BE ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE FOR ENGINEERING, CADASTRAL, AND ASSOCIATED PURPOSES, AS WELL AS FOR MAPPING LARGE AREAS AT SMALL SCALE. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>COORDINATE SYSTEMS FOR SURVEYING AND MAPPING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NGS (NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY) IS PLANNING TO PERFORM A NEW ADJUSTMENT OF THE U.S. HORIZONTAL CONTROL NETWORK WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS. THE PRIMARY REASONS FOR A NEW ADJUSTMENT ARE THREEFOLD: (1) THE ACCURACY IN SCALE AND ORIENTATION NEEDED TODAY COULD NOT BE OBTAINED WITH THE NUMBER OF BASE LINES AND AZIMUTHS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF THE NORTH AMERICAN 1927 DATUM ADJUSTMENT; (2) AS NEW SURVEYS WERE PERFORMED AND ADJUSTED TO THE BASIC 1927 NET, RESULTS WERE DISTORTED DUE TO PIECEMEAL ADJUSTMENTS; AND (3) DEMANDS FOR GREATER RELATIVE ACCURACIES BETWEEN STATIONS IN THE NET HAVE INCREASED RAPIDLY. WHEN THE NEW ADJUSTMENT IS COMPLETED, RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE THAT A NEW NATIONAL GRID SYSTEM OF PLANE COORDINATES BE ADOPTED FOR THE U.S., AND THAT ALL PLANE COORDINATES BE DEFINED IN METRIC UNITS. BOT OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE MERIT AND THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS REPORT IS TO DISCUSS A NATIONAL GRID SYSTEM BASED ON A TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FEDERAL MAPPING AND A NATIONAL GRID</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[BASED ON THE VARIOUS CONSIDERATIONS PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT, THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE: (1) THE METRIC GRID ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION SHOULD BE ADOPTED AS A NATIONAL PLANE COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEM; (2) THIS REFERENCE SYSTEM SHOULD BE SHOWN AS A FULL LINE GRID ON ALL STANDARD MAPS IN THE FEDERAL MAPPING PROGRAM; (3) SECONDARY REFERENCE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS MODIFIED UTM ZONES AND STATE PLANE COORDINATES, SHOULD BE SHOWN ON FEDERAL MAPS BY MEANS OF MARGINAL TICKS; (4) ALL STANDARD QUADRANGLE MAPS IN THE FEDERAL PROGRAM SHOULD BE CAST ON THE UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION; (5) PROJECTION AND ELEVATION SCALE FACTORS SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE MARGINAL DATA; (6) WHEREVER POSSIBLE THE UTM PROJECTION AND GRID SHOULD BE ADOPTED AS THE STANDARD REFERENCE SYSTEM BY STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES; AND (7) NEW MAP SERIES SHOULD BE BASED ON METRIC UNITS FOR POSITION AND ELEVATION, AND EXISTING MAP SERIES SHOULD BE CONVERTED TO METRIC UNITS AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PERSPECTIVE TEMPLATE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MAPPING OF EVIDENCE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[INVESTIGATION OF AN ACCIDENT OR CRIME MAY REQUIRE PHOTOGRAPHS AND A MAP OF THE SCENE BUT TIME IS SHORT AND MEASUREMENTS FOR A MAP ARE OFTEN OMITTED WITH THE IDEA THAT PICTURES ARE SUFFICEINT IN THAT MEASUREMENTS CAN BE MADE LATER. A SOLUTION TO THE DILEMMA IS TO MAKE PICTURES FROM WHICH MAPS CAN BE DRAWN IF AND WHEN NEEDED, BY THE USE OF A PERSPECTIVE TEMPLATE OF A KNOWN SIZE. IF WHAT IS TO BE MAPPED IS ON A FLAT FLOOR OR PAVEMENT, A RECTANGLE OF KNOWN SIZE CAN BE SHOWN ON THAT SURFACE IN THE PICTURE. WITH THE USE OF THE TEMPLATE, VANISHING POINTS ARE LOCATED ON THE ENLARGED PHOTOGRAPH AND A PERSPECTIVE GRID CONSTRUCTED. AN ORTHOGONAL MAP GRID IS PREPARED TO SCALE AND THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS IS THEN TRANSFERRED ONTO THIS GRID. IF CAREFULLY DONE, MAPS MADE FROM PERSPECTIVE TEMPLATE PHOTOS ARE ADEQUATE FOR ALL ORDINARY PURPOSES.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 1972 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>DESIGNING NEW PAVEMENT ARROWS USING A PERSPECTIVE METHOD</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[PREVIOUS PAVEMENT ARROWS, AS SEEN BY MOTORISTS, SHOW DISPROPORTION BETWEEN SPEAR AND SHAFT. TO CORRECT THIS, A PERSPECTIVE METHOD, CALLED ANAMORPHOSIS, WAS USED TO GENERATE TRAFFIC ARROWS THAT APPEAR NORMAL FROM A PREDETERMINED ANGLE OF VIEW.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 1972 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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