To determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.

Interiors may be fitted out for exhibition or information purposes with special equipment and / or audio visual devices.

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

Under the direction of Star Trek producer David Rossi and long-time Star Trek technical consultant Mike Okuda, the visual and special effects were recreated to give Star Trek: The Original Series a more authentic feel and modern look.

The character's special visual abilities were responsible, at least in part, for his unusually rapid advancement in rank seeing as how his enhanced eyesight was a kind of built-in diagnostic tool allowing him to sidestep certain mechanical sensory tools.

There is a special visual aspect in some versions ; instead of separate blocks, games like iDrops and SameGameManiak feature bordered areas for adjacent blocks of the same color.

# Special talents, achievements and awards in a particular field, such as visual and performing arts, communication or athletic endeavors ; special skills, such as demonstrated written and oral proficiency in other languages ; special interests, such as intensive study and exploration of other cultures ; experiences that demonstrate unusual promise for leadership, such as significant community service or significant participation in student government ; or other significant experiences or achievements that demonstrate the student's promise for contributing to the intellectual vitality of a campus.

Most current virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special stereoscopic displays, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones.

A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with quotations from Fritjof Capra: " Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes.

Cameron had originally planned to shoot on location in the Bahamas where the story was set but quickly realized that he needed to have a completely controlled environment because of the stunts and special visual effects involved.

* 1997: Award special visual sensitivity in directing at the Camerimage

His next film, The Thing ( 1982 ), is notable for its high production values, including innovative special effects by Rob Bottin, special visual effects by matte artist Albert Whitlock, a score by Ennio Morricone and a cast including rising star Kurt Russell and respected character actors such as Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Keith David, and Richard Masur.

With the emergence of digital film-making tools a greater distinction between special effects and visual effects has been recognized, with " visual effects " referring to digital post-production and " special effects " referring to on-set mechanical effects and in-camera optical effects.

It has also encouraged within the industry a greater distinction between special effects and visual effects ; the latter is used to characterize post-production and optical work, while special effects refers more often to on-set and mechanical effects.

After his return to the Disney studio, Iwerks mainly worked on developing special visual effects.

They produce radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays, although most of the energy goes to frequencies outside the visual range and for this reason the majority of the flares are not visible to the naked eye and must be observed with special instruments.

The special syntactical effects of a Rimbaud or an Edith Sitwell -- actually ornaments -- become the main concern.

In some of the numbers the instrumental parts have even been recorded at different times and then later combined on the master tape to produce special effects.

* 2012 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist ( b. 1925 )

The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick has as its effects:

* 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and director ( d. 2008 )

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

It was an elaborate production that included location shooting in the Truckee mountains with 600 extras, extravagant sets, and special effects.

In other cases, little-known or forgotten films from the past are revived as cult films, largely because they may be considered goofy and senseless by modern standards, with laughable special effects and corny plotlines.

Cutaways are also used often in older horror films in place of special effects.

The role has involved Charles playing a variety of alternative characters, including a gangster, a cowboy, and angelic and evil versions of Lister, and in him carrying out a wide range of stunts, and acting involving special effects.

The Copenhagen Interpretation gives special status to measurement processes without clearly defining them or explaining their peculiar effects.

As a brute-force method, ray tracing has been too slow to consider for real-time, and until recently too slow even to consider for short films of any degree of quality, although it has been used for special effects sequences, and in advertising, where a short portion of high quality ( perhaps even photorealistic ) footage is required.

* Due to special electronic effects such as ( second-order ) Jahn-Teller stabilization, certain geometries are stabilized relative to the other possibilities, e. g. for some compounds the trigonal prismatic geometry is stabilized relative to octahedral structures for six-coordination.

* 1940 – Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer

New music and special effects were also added to the cuts.

the Extra-Terrestrial, in which special effects are redone in addition to a new edit, have also caused controversy.

Choreographed by Toni Basil, and lavishly produced with theatrical special effects, the high-budget stage production was filmed by Alan Yentob.

Critics maligned the tour as overproduced, saying it pandered to the current stadium rock trends in its special effects and dancing.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

Certain matte paintings were rendered by James Cameron, who was at the time a special effects artist with Roger Corman's New World Pictures.

Raimi became extremely overheated, to the point that his costume was literally filled with liters of sweat ; special effects artist Gregory Nicotero describes pouring the fluid into several Dixie cups so as to get it out of the costume.

" Ebert states that " if you know it's all special effects, and if you've seen a lot of other movies and have a sense of humor, you might have a great time at Evil Dead 2.

Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

Arc lights had been used to produce special lighting effects in films like the light from a lamp or firelight before 1906, but this now became more common.