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He has pioneered or popularised the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including " adaptive tile refresh " for Commander Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3-D, Catacomb 3-D, and Wolfenstein 3-D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse ( formally known as z-fail stencil shadows ) which he devised for Doom 3, and MegaTexture technology, first used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
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And now Mr. Hodges has pioneered further into the economic unknown with the announcement that he thinks business has stopped sliding and that it should start going upward from this point.
Their use as a low-energy alternative to Portland cement has been pioneered in China, where several million tonnes per year are produced.
In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.
Cauz has been pursuing alliances with other companies and extending the Britannica brand to new educational and reference products, continuing the strategy pioneered by former CEO Elkan Harrison Powell in the mid-1930s.
ECMWF has pioneered an innovative approach known as reanalysis, which involves feeding weather observations collected over decades into a NWP system to recreate past atmospheric, sea-and land-surface conditions over specific time periods to obtain a clearer picture of how the climate has changed.
He has pioneered software design patterns, the rediscovery of test-driven development, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk.
Whereas some European national archives have tested deacidification techniques, the United States ’ National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ), which pioneered an aqueous technique that improved upon Barrow ’ s, has chosen to invest its preservation dollars elsewhere.
Archaeological research, pioneered by Thurstan Shaw and Steve Daniels, has shown that people were already living in southwestern Nigeria ( specifically Iwo-Eleru ) as early as 9000 BC and perhaps earlier at Ugwuelle-Uturu ( Okigwe ) in southeastern Nigeria, where microliths were used.
He has pioneered such concepts as the public sphere, communicative action, and deliberative democracy.
It has pioneered an environmentally safe method of deactivating and recycling nuclear-powered ships.
The Africa Endeavour programme pioneered by the United States of Africa Command ( AFRICOM ) has however served an eye opener to our communications need both within and out.
Singapore pioneered the modern use of toll roads to enter the most congested city area with the Singapore Area Licensing Scheme, which has since been replaced with the Electronic Road Pricing, a form of electronic toll collection.
Its success has led to the appearance of numerous rivals crudely copying the format Viz pioneered ; none of them has managed seriously to challenge its popularity.
* 1939: Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) The citation read, " For Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field.
Johns Hopkins pioneered the concept of the modern research university in the United States and has ranked among the world's top such universities throughout its history.
The purpose of settlement is to return to the ' land of our forefathers ', and the Hebron model of reclaiming sacred sites in Palestinian territories has pioneered a pattern for settlers in Bethlehem and Nablus.
This clinic has pioneered the use of Imatinib to treat neurofibromas.
Prince pioneered the " Minneapolis sound ", a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, R & B and New Wave that has influenced many other musicians.
The American company Kestrel USA pioneered the use of carbon fibre monocoques in bike frame manufacture in the 1980s, and since then the technique has become increasingly widely used.
This type was pioneered by Nevills in the 1930s. It has special features such as inboard strong metal rowlocks, long low-geared oars, long blade oars to operate in the highly aerated waters in rapids.
Using the purification capacity of wetlands, the Indian city of Kolkata ( Calcutta ) has pioneered a system of sewage disposal that is both efficient and environmentally friendly.
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The most long standing and popularised theory has been the attempts to link Assyrian ancestry to the ancient Germans.
Robert Graves popularised the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.
According to Eurogamer. net, " Id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularised ".
* The song ' Scarborough Fair ' ( popularised by Simon and Garfunkel ) has the refrain " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " which is also the title of their third studio album.
They have been criticised for exploiting the massive catalogue of African American music, but it has also been noted that they both popularised that music, bringing it to British, world and in some cases American audiences, and helping to build the reputation of existing and past rhythm and blues artists.
His work was popularised by an article in the Analog Science Fiction and Fact publication, where Tom Ligon ( who has also written several science fiction stories ) described how the fusor would make for a highly effective fusion rocket.
The role of the hunter-conservationist, popularised by Theodore Roosevelt, has been central to the development of the modern fair chase tradition.
It has been celebrated and popularised in operas, folk stories, novels and in more recent times, films, television, and video games.
Ningizzida has been popularised in the 20th C. by Raku Kei Reiki ( a. k. a. " The Way of the Fire Dragon ") where " Nin Giz Zida " is believed to be a fire serpent of Tibetan rather than Sumerian origin.
It was popularised under its English title " My Man " by Fanny Brice and has become a standard in the repertoire of numerous pop and jazz singers.
The concept has long existed but was named and popularised in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton.
They have been criticised for exploiting the massive catalogue of African American music, but it has also been noted that they both popularised that music, bringing it to British, world and in some cases American audiences, and helping to build the reputation of existing and past rhythm and blues artists.
The town has begun to be referred to by locals as ' Sunny Dunny ', after a local radio host popularised the term.
Lalon geeti originated in Kushtia and has been popularised throughout the two Bengals ( West Bengal and Bangladesh ) by various artists.
This approach has also been popularised in TV-series as It's Not Easy Being Green.
In recent years, she has popularised denim cutoff shorts, Ugg boots, ballet flats, Vivienne Westwood Pirate Boots, skinny jeans, waistcoat, Alexander McQueen's skull scarf, Louis Vuitton's Sprouse Leopard Cashmere Scarf, and the Balenciaga handbag.
More recently the term mass intelligentsia has been popularised to describe the intellectual effect of tertiary education upon a population.
The term has been used regularly by sociologists but was widely popularised in the 2010s by English philosopher Melvyn Bragg.
St Kilda has a vibrant and popular Lawn Bowls scene which attracts younger players and has been popularised in film and television.
However this figure has been popularised by Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature, where it is presented as proportionally the largest atrocity in history, though with a caution that " These figures, of course, can not all be taken at face value.
The term " supercentenarian " has been in existence at least since the 1970s ( Norris McWhirter, editor of the Guinness World Records, used the word in correspondence with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1976 ), and was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book entitled Generations.
The Bay Of Islands has been renowned for its game fishing since being popularised by the American author Zane Grey in the 1930s.
It has been popularised by the video game Doom 3, and a particular variation of the technique used in this game has become known as Carmack's Reverse ( see depth fail below ).
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