You've Come a Long Way, Sybil Macintosh: A Book of Manners and Grooming for Girls

By Charlotte Herman

The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody's common life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities. Scientists, artists and engineers, in any field, need to be aware of the basic mechanisms that allow them to understand how images are essentially information carriers. Images bear a strong evocative power, because their perception quickly brings into mind a number of related pictorial contents of past experiences, and even of abstract concepts like pleasure, attraction or aversion.This book analyzes the visual hints, thanks to which, images are generally interpreted, processed and exploited, both by humans and computer programs. Comprehensive introductory textIntroduces the reader to the large world of imagery on which many human activities are based, from politics to entertainment, from technical reports to artistic creationsProvides a unified framework where both biological and artificial vision are discussed through visual cues, through the role of contexts and the available multi-channels to deliver information

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879552077
• ISBN13: 9780879552077
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: J. P. O'Hara
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fun Enough for a Gift

Who wants a book of etiquette? Well, any child, who cares about other people and loves to laugh would want this one. It's written for girls, but good manners are for anyone. This book is fun, informative, and a pleasure to read and look at, even for adults and folks who already have nice manners. The author stresses courtesy and niceness rather than such specifics as how to eat a banana with a fork and knife, but that makes it applicable to just about any situation involving other people who appreciate thoughtfulness.