![]() ![]() As an economist, I agree.īut globalization has also led to an escalation of risks. ![]() Yet he essentially defends globalization and the growth of market economies by claiming that it has brought more progress than any force in history. He does not frame the thesis in economic terms. Many of the Enlightenment’s philosophical, social and scientific advances offer lessons for our reason-starved times, as Pinker ably argues but context is key.Īlthough it is framed as a historically informed template for a new age of reason, Enlightenment Now ultimately becomes something else: an extended dismissal of the arguments of despair that Pinker fears are defining politics and crowding out an alternative approach rooted in rationality and global cooperation. Although history does not repeat itself, it may rhyme it can offer insights into predicaments and solutions, as I have found helpful, for instance, in conceptualizing the future of work. That said, comparing historical eras can be instructive. Moreover, progress in science and society is a tapestry that cannot be unpicked through simple periodization. ![]() Shared social norms and ethics are the framework that allows reason to prevail. Like the Renaissance, it ended in chaos and conflict, including the French revolutionary wars of 1792–99.īoth eras show that science and evidence-based thinking do not necessarily triumph over irrationality and ideology. Enlightenment advances were tied to empire building and the nascent Industrial Revolution, predicated not just on noble ideas and scientific curiosity, but also on slavery, genocide, exploitation and cultural triumphalism. Europe saw the rise of religious extremists - such as the demagogue Girolamo Savonarola, who ruled Florence in the 1490s - along with intolerance of diversity and science. During the Renaissance voyages of discovery, European sailors spread diseases that killed millions of indigenous Americans. Before that were extraordinarily innovative epochs in Asia and other regions, such as China’s Tang dynasty (ad 618–907) and the Islamic Golden Age (750–1260).Īnother issue we highlighted is that less salubrious aspects of change accompanied eras of rapid progress. As Chris Kutarna and I showed in Age of Discovery (Bloomsbury, 2017), the Renaissance was a period of even more dramatic progress in science and the humanities, sparked by luminaries such as the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and the humanist Erasmus (see P. Many of the breakthroughs that Pinker attributes to the Enlightenment actually pre-date it. But using the era as a premise is problematic. The separation of church and state in some nations allowed new models of society to flourish. The Enlightenment undoubtedly saw major advances in constitutional government. That legacy, he asserts, is ripe for resurrection at a time of political upheaval, the rise of demagoguery, climate scepticism and ‘fake news’. But the book’s premise lies in the past: the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth century when, Pinker argues, reason, science, humanism and progress became the centre of intellectual endeavour in Europe and North America. In this new combined survey, analysis and manifesto, he convincingly demonstrates that when it comes to health and life expectancy, poverty reduction and income, education, human rights, peace and security, the global data provide solid grounds for optimism. Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now builds on his 2011 The Better Angels of Our Nature (Viking) in offering another engaging, compelling set of reasons to be cheerful. Credit: Bridgeman ImagesĮnlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress Steven Pinker Viking: 2018. All Rights Reserved.The Marseillaise (1870) by Gustave Doré: the French Revolution began with ideals of rationalism, but descended into chaos and conflict. The economist Richard Nelson in the 1980s proposed that whole economies evolve by natural selection.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term 'meme' for a unit of cultural imitation. The French sociologist Gabriel Tarde wrote in 1888: 'We may call it social evolution when an invention quietly spreads through imitation.' The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1960s that in social evolution the decisive factor is 'selection by imitation of successful institutions and habits'. This notion has been trying to surface in the social sciences for a long time. The habitat in which these ideas reside consists of human brains. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes. Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. To argue that human nature has not changed, but human culture has, does not mean rejecting evolution – quite the reverse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pidgin, started Gaim in 1998 as an open-source instant messaging client, which allowed users to reach contacts on several operating systems. Yahoo! launched its Messenger in 1998, as Yahoo! Pager. While AIM was the first to appeal to the masses, many other messaging programs soon followed it. Party Line was used by the US Government to manage emergency situations until 1986, but it has commonalities with instant messaging programs today: It was originally developed to replace telephone conferences, which might have had 30 or so participants, to facilitate better discussions (like today’s WhatsApp or Facebook messenger groups), and like AIM, it would sound an alert when someone joined or left the group. Before the Talkomatic - which was created in 1973 on PLATO (t he first generalized computer-assisted instruction system) at the University of Illinois, and offered several channels for up to five people, with messages appearing on all users’ screens character-by-character as they were typed - there was the Emergency Management Information Systems And Reference Index (EMISARI) Party Line, in 1971. The first iterations of chat programs were functional. After logging in, you could hear the sounds of opening and closing doors when contacts on your Buddy List signed in or out: The mystery and anxiety of whether someone was online or offline and why they weren’t responding to your message was born. “Instant messaging” became ubiquitous in 1997 with the launch of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), which used its proprietary OSCAR instant messaging and TOC protocols to allow registered users to communicate in real time. ![]() About an hour later, recovering from the crash, the full text ‘LOGIN’ was successfully sent. After the letters ‘L’ and ‘O’ were sent, the system crashed, making the first message ever sent on the internet LO. In 1969, UCLA student, Charley Kilne, attempted to transmit the text “login” to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute over the first link on the ARPANET, which was the precursor to the modern internet. How did we get from there, to having full chat conversations in tiny boxes on our mobile phones? The first instant messages were for programmers, emergency communications, and computer chat rooms, until they entered the realm of our everyday lives. But before WhatsApp, which in 2019 had 2 billion users globally with 65 billion messages sent through the app each day, there was Talkomatic, way back in 1973, and even before that there was Party Line, in 1971, and a random message sent by a student on the first iteration of the internet, in 1969. 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When Vicky had a hard time separating from her dad one morning, we all solemnly sang The Comfort Song – “what should I do if my best friend is crying? What should I do? I don’t know what to say. Singing infused my classroom with good feelings. Why not use this extra time at home to do some singing with your children while they are home from school and spending lots of time with you Well if you want to sing out, sing out With these benefits in mind, I thought that it would be helpful for parents to read a post that I once put on my blog about singing with children in school. ![]() According to the research, singing lowers cortisol and relieves stress and tension, boosts confidence, and, because it is a mindful activity, allows you to live completely in the moment and distracts your mind from negative thoughts. I found a wonderful website called the Sing Up Foundation that outlines some of the benefits of singing. However, I was more curious to see if singing could have other benefits that help us in dealing with the stress of living in a world suffering from a pandemic. I always knew that singing together can be a lot of fun and helps foster community in classrooms. Renee’s blog, It's Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration and Play can be found at Renée lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the artist, Simon Dinnerstein. This coming March 2019, the book will be published in Mandarin by the Beijing Normal University Press. Her book, Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, was published by Heinemann in August, 2016. She received the Bank Street Early Childhood Educator of the Year Award in 1999. She was the teacher-director of the Children’s School early childhood inclusion annex and worked also as an Early Childhood Staff Developer in the New York City Department of Education, Division of Instructional Support, where she wrote curriculum, led study groups and summer institutes, and helped write the New York City Pre Kindergarten Standards. She has taught both in Italy and the United States and has spent eighteen years as an early childhood teacher at P,S, 321, one of New York City’s leading elementary schools. Renée Dinnerstein has over 50 years experience as an early childhood educator. ![]() ![]() Observing this and other similarities, Savoy concluded that a regular prehistoric trade had clearly existed between the two culture areas, and that that trade was conducted over the water. It was a Mexican hieroglyph for gold” (Savoy 1974, 17). In 1961, Savoy “observed a petroglyph etched on a rock in the Jequetepeque Valley of northern Peru. Rather than reaching across the Pacific from South America, Savoy was convinced that the Andean empire of the Incas and the Mexican empire of the Aztecs had had regular contact along the western coasts of South and Central America. Like Thor Heyerdahl, American explorer Gene Savoy had an intense interest in the prehistoric civilizations of Peru. Hull: totora reed Compliment: 4 Design: traditional (?) True seagoing ship and experimental and traditional vessels continue to be built providing modern examples of this fascinating vessel. It is clear that more work needs to be done on the design and construction of the vessels to make a Is connected to the river Amazon by a natural canal called the Cassiquiare canal. They could be constructed from reed gather locally at these sites, and the Venezuelan site also has the advantage ofĪ natural lake of pitch at Guanoco, near the Guanoco River, itself near the Gulf of Paria and the delta of the Orinocco. The mouth of the river Orinocco for travel to the Mediterranean. the mouth of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) for a voyage under Southern Africa and up to the Persian Gulf or Or low loader, but for tranoceanic voyages, it would be better if the vessels had a minimum size of around 100ft (30 metres) and were built at suitableĭeparture points e.g. Modern reedships seem to be build to a reduced size in order to facilitate construction in Bolivia and transportation either by shipping crate Guara boards could then be inserted through the timber raft so the vessel could be steered by raising and lowering the guara boards thus altering the centre of effort of gravity and effort on the sailsĪnd the use of three masts would also aid the steering of the vessel by raising and reefing or lowering the forward and rear sails respectively. The design might be improved, especially in larger vessels, by using a timber or balsa raft between two hulls (joined at prow and stern) which would strengthen the vesselĪnd also allow the cabin to be inserted lower down within the overall vessel. The reed ships typically consist of two large reed bundles lashed by a continuous cord to a smaller central bundle of reeds. Steering oars on the rear of the vessel often makes the stern fall off. Oars lashed to the side of the vessel instead of guara boards (dagger boards) inserted between the hulls. The disintegration of the stern of the vessels is the use of steering Iraq were formerly coated in a special mixture of bitumen, pitch and oil but no modern boatbuilders seem to have followed this practice,Įqually, ancient Egyptian vessels are shown with a special cord connecting the prow to the stern for reasons of support,īut again this practice seems never to have been followed leading to extra stress and sometimes disintegration of the vessel. Since then there have been various reed ship constructions with differing degrees of success, vessels in ancient Heyerdahl followed this up with RA2 in 1970 when he got boatbuilders from Lake Titicaca to fly over to MorroccoĪnd build the boat for him which crossed the Atlantic with more success. RA1 - this vessel was built in Morrocco by boatbuildersįrom lake Chad but the voyage was abandoned near Barbados. With the construction of Feathered Serpent by Gene Savoy in Peru and at the same time by anĪtlantic crossing by Thor Heyerdahl in a reed boat called ![]() ![]() Reed boatbuilding seems to have had what one might call a popular revival, beginning in 1969 ![]() Where in ancient times they reached giant proportions of some 495 feet according to Thor Heyerdahl. In Africa, reed boatsĪre still in use upon Lake Chad whilst reed boats have a long tradition in what is now southern Iraq Vessels are also still built along the Pacific shores of Peru for coastal fishing. Today by the Aymara and Uru boatbuilders on Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes of South America. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Reed boatbuilding is an occupation which has a long tradition and is found kept alive If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Richly scented with red berries, vanilla, and mulberry, this full-bodied crimson red wine is oozing with flavors of brandied cherries, currants, and bittersweet dark chocolate. Produced by one of Australia’s most notable wineries, this cab is not for the faint of heart. When people talk about big wine, this is what they mean. Sop up all your meats and hearty vegetables with this medium-bodied red wine. The overall mouthfeel is pillowy soft and the finish is long and lingering. As its silky texture glides down the throat you’ll notice a slight vegetal note that gets a lift from velvety tannins. Its deep reddish-purplish hue is indicative of the dark fruits coating the palate - think black cherry, blueberry, and raisin. This wine has an intense fragrance of washed leather drying in the sun. High altitudes, lots of sunlight, and weather patterns that switch from hot to cold from day to night result in a grand red wine that is not only enjoyable but easy to drink. With such stunning views of the Andes Mountains surrounding the Argentinian vineyards in Mendoza, it’s no wonder this wine is just downright beautiful. Looking for something light and fruit-forward? This is your new go-to. ![]() A hint of oak appears in the smooth finish to wrap up the sip with a bit of complexity. On the palate, the wine is silky and sweet with more notes of strawberry while flavors of raspberry and blueberry play in the background. The aroma of this wine is bursting with juicy cherries, strawberries, and a dash of vanilla. Garnet colored with a shining bit of ruby, this wine is a straight-up easy sipper full of fruity character. The grapes for this pinot noir hail from areas of Monterey, Santa Barbara, and Sonoma, California. It has depth and character that you’ll feel in the sip but it’s not overbearingly dry like some of the bigger bottles featured on this list. This is a great starter wine if you’re just now beginning your journey into reds. About mid-sip you’ll get a pleasant hit of mocha and vanilla that extends well into the medium-length finish. Is that you’re grandmother’s rhubarb pie you’re smelling? Nope, that’s just the fruit and baking spice aromas of Apothic Red permeating from the bottle! This red wine is rich with blackberry, black cherry, blueberry, and purple plum notes on the palate. It’s as easy to drink as it is to find and with a price you can’t beat for decent red wine. The wine - comprised of zinfandel, syrah, merlot, and cabernet sauvignon - is available at grocery chains alllllllllll over the country. You’ve likely seen a bottle of this ruby-red blend a thousand times. Going to picnic in the park? Hosting a cute little gathering with friends? This is the wine to keep everyone’s glasses full. The beauty of boxed wine is that there’s so much of it. The finish is long and dry and sprinkled with hints of fresh ground peppercorns. The sip is big and bold thanks to jammy notes of blackberry preserves, black currants, and chewy tannins-the naturally occurring polyphenol found in plants, leaves, and fruit skins that influence a wine’s pucker power. This nearly-purple wine smells of black cherries and violets. I’m saying it now: Drizly shoppers are on to something with this one. It’s even better than some stuff that comes in actual bottles. ![]() I know what you’re thinking: “Boxed wine?!” But hear me out (and the thousands of Drizly shoppers who are shelling out coins for this stuff): This is not the yucky purple Welch’s concord grapes-and-cardboard-tasting cheap stuff like the boxed wines of yore. If you end up wanting a bottle yourself, the prices are linked for direct purchase. Price wasn’t a factor here - the ranking order of this list was purely based on taste and character. ![]() Then we drank them, ranked them all, and dished out tasting notes for each bottle. We checked in with Drizly this week to find the app’s top 12 best-selling red wines over the past 12 months. Obviously, those aforementioned delivery platforms have reaped the benefits. Over the course of the year, they increased a total of three percent - which doesn’t sound insane but is three times as much as 2019’s increase. In the first few weeks of the pandemic, online wine sales in the U.S. And over the past year, people have been clicking like crazy. Need new clothes? Looking for a job? A babysitter? A vintage record player? Oysters from Massachusetts when you live in Indiana? You can do it all with a click.ĭon’t want to interrupt your Rick and Morty marathon to run to the store when you’re all out of booze? One click brings you to online stores like Caskers, Reserve Bar, and Drizly. There’s no way the internet gods could have known that its creation would begin an era in which humans value convenience over literally everything else. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because they can evade, carry weapons like chainsaws and projectile weapons, and communicate with each other, Los Ganados are different from the franchise’s standard zombies. Los Ganados are a violent group of villagers (“The Cattle” in Spanish). In the game’s many boss encounters, in which the player must escape instant-kill attacks, instant-kill assaults are commonly implemented. A fast time event requires the player to click buttons on the screen to complete actions such as dodging a falling boulder or wrestling an attacker to stay alive. A ladder can be kicked down, a window jumped out of, an attack dodged or a “finishing move” executed on weakened adversaries, depending on the situation. Controls SystemĬontext-sensitive controls are now available in Resident Evil 4 PPSSPP. Also, players can shoot down axes and other projectile weapons. If you shoot your enemy’s arms, they might drop their weapons. ![]() If you shoot your enemy’s legs, he or she may stumble and drop their weapons. ![]() There are now more shooting possibilities than in earlier games where players could only shoot straight up or down. Every firearm has a laser sight, not a crosshair. Whenever Leon is aiming a weapon, the camera zooms in either an over-the-shoulder perspective or a first-person view, depending on the type of weapon. The gameplay focuses more on action and shootouts than the previous games in the series, with fewer survival horror themes. Gameplay of Resident Evil 4 PPSSPPĪ third-person perspective is used to control the protagonist, Leon Kennedy Sr. It was followed by Resident Evil 5 in 2009. Survival horror and third-person genres were impacted by it, and the third-person viewpoint was popularised. It has been hailed as one of the best video games ever made, and has won multiple Game of the Year awards. Multiple Game of the Year awards were given to this game in 2005. For this game, developers wanted to move away from the fixed camera angles and slower survival horror gameplay of earlier instalments.Īlthough Resident Evil 4 had been billed as a GameCube exclusive, it was ported to a number of platforms and became an international smash hit, selling over 10 million copies across all platforms, including the GameCube. The first effort was directed by Hideki Kamiya after producer Shinji Mikami the second and third attempts were rejected. PlayStation 2 was first developed in 1999. Ada Wong, a spy, reunites with Leon in a rural section of Europe, where Leon fights hordes of infected locals. president, Ashley Graham, and Kennedy is ordered to retrieve her. A cult has kidnapped the daughter of the U.S. It was published for the GameCube in 2005. Developed by Capcom Production Studio 4, Resident Evil 4 is a survival horror third-person shooter video game. ![]() ![]() ![]() This typeface may not look as solid and professional as others, but it gives your copy a modern, strong and original appearance. Madawaska comes with fractions, old-style numerals and lining numerals. With seven weights, including some very subtle hairline versions, it’s versatile and widely usable. Madawaska, a slab-serif family, has a bit of both: some of the ruggedness of the creator’s display work, and the extensive structure of a text family. Madawaska | Gallery | Price: $29.95 for all 34 fonts Since its release in the spring of 2003, Locator has been used for a range of projects, including books, signage, corporate identity and even the company’s website. Locator is now a complete family of 12 fonts with true italic. Locatorĭesigned by Eric Olson in 2002⁄ 2003, Locator was originally proposed as a custom typeface for the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota. ![]() Metroscript was successful throughout 2008 and proudly holds the title of MyFonts’ Brush Script Font of the Year. With Metroscript, New York-based lettering artist Michael Doret has adapted his trademark hand-lettering style to the computer, creating one of the most sophisticated suites of script fonts on the market. Metroscript | Gallery | Price: $99 for all five fonts For tables and charts, Gotham’s core styles include a “Numeric” range that contains tabular figures, fractions and extended symbols. The typeface includes four different widths, from regular to condensed, and each style is paired with a matching italic. The typeface can be used in publications, on websites, for branding and on book covers and posters. Gotham is new, economical and designed specifically for text. The sans-serif version is a sturdy, low-contrast, geometric, highly legible sans-serif typeface that is well suited to any display and text use.īoth typefaces are lucid and versatile, great for cool-looking headlines but also effective as medium-sized text. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures, Museo has a “case” feature for case-sensitive forms. This OpenType font family comes in five weights, and each weight comes with support for CE languages, even Esperanto. Museo is a clean yet unconventional semi-serif, designed by Jos Buivenga. Museo | Gallery | Price: $29.95 for all five fonts ?Although the type family has a geometric or “technological” construction, the rounded finish lends a warm appearance, making the typefaces more accessible. All the characters are based on the same formal principle, with corresponding optical adjustments to adapt the system to an alphabet for texts. Geogrotesque is a semi-modular typeface with a subtle rounded finish. Bodoni Script Pro is a 3-weight family each font comes with 725 glyphs, including a large number of alternates, as well as 144 ornaments. 60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Designsĭesigned by Panos Vassillou, this typeface was designed with connected characters and capitals with calligraphic elements.80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design.How To Choose A Typeface - A Step-By-Step Guide!.This showcase should serve as a great reference for professional designers looking for some fresh, beautiful typefaces for their corporate projects. Please note that they are not free, but we’ve focused on typefaces that are definitely worth spending money on. The result is this comprehensive showcase of typefaces, together with links to specimens and pricing information.īelow, you’ll find 35 brilliant new typefaces for corporate design. In the end, we came up with a list of the most promising corporate typefaces and collected information about each of them. We looked around and researched recently released corporate typefaces that have been frequently recommended, mentioned or discussed on popular typography-related blogs, forums and magazines. Yet only a few free fonts manage to beat the look and feel of a carefully designed professional typeface, one that has been painstakingly developed over years with a close attention to tiny details. Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there, and some free fonts are very impressive. ![]() The type family has to convey a message clearly and effectively, regardless of the setting in which it is used. ![]() Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there, and some free fonts are very impressive.ĭesigning a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. ![]() ![]() ![]() This activity promotes creativity and experimentation as kids explore different ways to combine materials to create varied figures. Use a combination of materials such as paper, stickers, and foam shapes to create a mixed media tessellation. Try using stickers to create a captivating motif! This activity promotes creativity and fine motor skills as kids carefully arrange their stickers to create a pattern of irregular shapes. This activity is a fun and tactile way to explore geometry and patterns using soft, colorful foam shapes that can be easily arranged and rearranged to create different visual stimuli. ![]() Use foam shapes to create a tessellation. Pattern blocks are a set of geometric shapes that can be used to create a variety of designs. Use pattern blocks to create tessellations. Learn More: Fun Easy Learning Videos For Kids 7. This activity promotes creativity and problem-solving skills as kids experiment with different ways to fit the shapes together to create a repeating pattern. Tangrams are traditional Chinese puzzles made using seven geometric shapes that can be combined to form a square. Use tangram pieces to create a tessellation. This activity promotes creativity and spatial reasoning by encouraging kids to experiment with different Lego shapes and colors to create a striking pattern. Use Lego blocks to create unique tessellations. This activity promotes observation and critical thinking skills as kids look for shapes in their surroundings that can be combined to create repeating patterns. Go on a shape hunt and identify shapes that can be used to create a tessellation. Mosaic tessellations can be made in a variety of shapes and colors making them a great way to explore color theory and design! This activity requires patience and precision as kids carefully arrange the pieces to create a repeating pattern. Use small pieces of paper or tiles to create a mosaic-style tessellation. This activity promotes creativity and spatial reasoning skills by encouraging kids to explore different shapes and patterns. These tessellations are made by repeating animal shapes that fit seamlessly together. Geometric Animal TessellationsĬombine art and math by creating animal-shaped tessellations. This activity is a fun way to explore geometry and patterns using simple materials like paper and scissors. Sfarti currently develops system on chips for 3D graphics accelerators, de-interlacing and scaling and AV decoding at Key ASIC.A post shared by intricate and beautiful designs by folding and cutting paper into repeated shapes that fit together without any gaps or overlaps. In the mid 1990’s, he was responsible for the development of a next generation 3D game console at the 3DO Company and in the late 1990’s, he led the development of chips for CPU, core logic, advanced graphics and DVD controllers. Sfarti developed the INDY 3D Graphics workstation that introduced 3D graphics and video to a mainstream audience. Sfarti worked at Silicon Graphics, a key innovator in the emerging computer graphics market. Sfarti holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, a Masters in Electrical Engineering, and a PhD in Relativistic Electrodynamics. ![]() Sfarti and also works as an instructor for Computer Graphics Architectures at the University of California, Berkeley.ĭr. Adrian Sfarti has spent his career developing video and graphics technology, generating 29 patents in networking, CPU and GPU architectures. Leading GPU vendors, representing over 90% of the GPU market, have already released products or product roadmaps that incorporate 3D ART™ technology. Adaptive Real-Time Tessellation™ĪRT enables graphics hardware to perform tessellation in real-time, empowering developers to define highly-detailed 3D environments with coarse mesh (control points), rather than massive triangle databases.Įliminating a critical barrier to ART, powerful crack elimination Rapid Zippering technology ensures that adjacent surfaces line up perfectly.ģD ART is central to DirectX 11, the latest graphics API from Microsoft that is a key component of Microsoft’s flagship Windows 7 operating system. See the 3D ART Portfolio Lifecycle Chart.
![]() ![]() Get rid of the orange cap by twisting it counterclockwise until it separates from the ink cartridge.Remove its plastic wrapping by pulling the orange pull-tab backward. Prepare the new ink cartridge for installation.To remove the empty ink cartridge, press the tab in front of it, then pull the device away from the slot.Open the ink cartridge access door – the carriage will automatically move to the machine’s center.Proceed only once the printer becomes silent and idle. Please turn on your HP 7525 printer by pressing the Power Button.Canon’s Pixma MX892 is a similarly straightforward and competent choice.HOW DO I CHANGE THE INK CARTRIDGE ON MY HP PHOTOSMART 7525 PRINTER? It’s definitely worth consideration–especially by photo mavens. HP’s Photosmart 7520 offers outstanding print quality and ease of use, with all the features most small or home office users need. The photo black cartridge costs $10 for 130 photos (7.7 cents per photo), or $18 for 290 photos (6.2 cents per photo). The XL black offers only slight savings at $23 for 550 pages or 4.2 cpp. You can reduce color ink costs significantly with the XL cartridges, which are $18 for 750 pages, or 2.4 cpp. That’s just shy of 15 cents for a four-color page. The standard cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges cost $10 each and last for 300 pages (3.3 cents per page), while the standard black costs $12 and lasts for 250 pages, or 4.8 cents per page (cpp). Ink costs for the Photosmart 7520 are about average for a mainstream inkjet. Even draft-setting documents, which issue forth considerably faster, are more than legible. Text is sharp and dark at default settings, and nearly laser-like at best settings. Monochrome graphics lacked a distracting green or purple tinge. Photos, printed using a high-quality setting, feature an elegantly cool color palette and excellent detail in even dark areas. ![]() The Photosmart 7520’s output quality is among the best we’ve seen from an inkjet. Scanning and copying speeds are a tad faster than average compared with other inkjet MFPs we’ve tested. ![]() A letter-size, high-resolution photo printed on the Mac to glossy paper took about 2.5 minutes (a middling rate of 0.4 ppm). The same photo on letter-size photo paper took 62 seconds (0.98 ppm). A 4-by-6-inch photo printed at default settings on plain (letter-size) paper took about 16 seconds (or 3.75 ppm). We chose a higher-quality setting for printing color photos, producing slower times but better output quality (see below). Monochrome pages of text and text with graphics emerged at 9.5 pages per minute (ppm) on the PC and 9 ppm on the Mac. The unit achieved average to better speeds in our tests. The Photosmart can print and scan in duplex (both sides of the page), but duplex scanning requires two passes. However, the lid for the A4 flatbed scanner doesn’t telescope to accommodate thicker materials. There’s also a 25-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) for the scanner. The main paper tray holds 125 sheets, and integrated into its top is a secondary photo tray that holds up to 20 sheets of photo paper (5-by-7-inch maximum). While the Photosmart 7520 is photo-centric, its paper-handling features extend well beyond that. ![]() ![]() ![]() The example above shows how you can adjust the color vibrancy using Saturation. The example below shows how you can warm up or cool down the colors with Warmth. You’ll see the setting value at the top of the screen. When you’ve chosen a tool, swipe left or right over your photo to make the adjustment.
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