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Descent
Descent may refer to: As a noun Genealogy and inheritance * Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology * Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology **Pedigree chart or family tree **Ancestry **Lineal descendant **Heritage (other), Heritage **Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch *Phylogenetics **Tree diagram (other) *Inheritance (law and property) Mathematics * Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations * Descent (mathematics), an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology * Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations * Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton * Descents in permutations, a classical Permutation#Descents, permutation statistic in combinatorics Other uses *Descent (aeronautics), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight *Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent II
''Descent II'' is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. For the PlayStation, it is known as ''Descent Maximum''. It is the second installment in the ''Descent'' video game series and the sequel to ''Descent''. The base of the gameplay remaining the same, the player controls a spaceship from the pilot's perspective and must navigate extrasolar underground mines to locate and destroy their reactors and escape being caught in their self-destructions, while engaging and surviving infected robots, which will attempt to destroy the ship. Unlike other first-person shooters, its six-degrees-of-freedom scheme allows the player to move and rotate in any three-dimensional space and direction. ''Descent II''s development started as a project intended to expand the original using a compact disc's storage, which later became a standalone product. The game received very positive reviews from video game critics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent (video Game)
''Descent'' is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. It popularized a subgenre of FPS games employing six degrees of freedom and was the first FPS to feature entirely true-3D graphics. The player is cast as a mercenary hired to eliminate the threat of a mysterious extraterrestrial computer virus infecting off-world mining robots. In a series of mines throughout the Solar System, the protagonist pilots a spaceship and must locate and destroy the mine's power reactor and escape before being caught in the mine's self-destruction, defeating opposing robots along the way. Players can play online and compete in either deathmatches or cooperate to take on the robots. ''Descent'' was a commercial success. Together with its sequel, it sold over 1.1 million units as of 1998 and was critically acclaimed. Commentators and reviewers compared it to ''Doom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent 3
''Descent 3'' (stylized as ''Descent³'') is a first-person shooter video game developed by Outrage Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows in North America on June 17, 1999. ''Descent 3'' is the third game in the ''Descent'' video game series and a sequel to ''Descent II''. The game takes place in a science fiction setting of the Solar System where the player is cast as Material Defender, a mercenary who must help an organization known as the Red Acropolis Research Team to stop robots infected by an alien Computer virus, virus. Unlike in standard first-person shooters, the player must control a flying ship that has a six degrees of freedom movement scheme, allowing the player to move and rotate in any Three-dimensional space, 3D direction. In addition to a Single-player video game, single-player campaign mode, ''Descent 3'' features an Computer network, online Multiplayer video game, multiplayer mode where numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Descent
''The Descent'' is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who enter a cave system and struggle to survive against the humanoid creatures inside. Filming took place in the United Kingdom. Exterior scenes were filmed at Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire, and in Scotland. Because the filmmakers considered it too dangerous and time-consuming to shoot in an actual cave, interior scenes were filmed on sets built at Pinewood Studios near London designed by Simon Bowles. ''The Descent'' opened in cinemas in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2005. It premiered in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and released on 4 August 2006 in the United States. The film received positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $57.1 million against a £3.5 million budget. A sequel, titled ''The Descent Part 2'', directed by the first film's editor Jon Harris, was released in 2009. Plot Thrill seeker friends Sarah, Juno, and Beth whitewater raft tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Descent Part 2
''The Descent Part 2'' is a 2009 British adventure horror film and sequel to the 2005 horror film ''The Descent''. It was directed by Jon Harris from a screenplay by James McCarthy, J Blakeson, and James Watkins. The film was produced by Christian Colson and Ivana MacKinnon; Neil Marshall, the writer and director of the original, was an executive producer. Shot in London and Surrey, it was released in cinemas in the UK on 2 December 2009 and was given a straight-to-DVD release on 27 April 2010 in the US. Plot Two days after the events of the first film, a traumatized and blood-covered Sarah escapes the cave system with no memory of what happened. She is taken to a hospital, where the doctor finds that some of the blood on her is of the same blood type as Juno, one of her missing friends. Sheriff Vaines and his deputy Rios bring along the amnesiac Sarah and three potholing cave specialists – Dan, Greg, and Cath – to find the missing women in the cave system. They are s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent (2007 Film)
''Descent'' is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Talia Lugacy and produced by and starring Rosario Dawson. Plot Maya is an upcoming artist and college student. In the winter of her senior year, Maya attends a fraternity party and meets a student named Jared who immediately starts courting her using all his eloquence behind which there is nothing but lies. Seduced by his lies, she accepts his invitation to dinner at a restaurant, then goes to his apartment, just to talk. They start to make out, but when Maya tells him to stop, Jared soon reveals his true self and brutally rapes her while uttering dehumanizing slurs in her ear. Over the next year, Maya's personality changes. She becomes quiet and withdrawn, graduating from college and taking a job at a clothing store. She disconnects herself from society and other familiar surroundings while struggling to break free of the resulting depression and addiction. At night, she's someone else: a beauty at the nightclub scene, dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Irresistible Tragicomedy Of Everyday Life
''Descent: An Irresistible Tragicomedy of Everyday Life'' is a 2004 ''roman à clef'' by Sabrina Broadbent about a troubled marriage. The protagonist, Genevieve, is a psychiatric nurse whose husband, a filmmaker, leaves her at home while he travels the world having sexual intercourse with well-known actresses. ''Descent'' was Broadbent's debut novel and is based on her own marriage. After ''Descent'', her next novel was ''You Don't Have to be Good'', which also takes romantic problems as its subject. ''Descent'' was the inaugural winner of the W H Smith Raw Talent Award. Stephen Rodrick of ''The New York Times'' called ''Descent'' "a touching, smart novel." Background The novel is based on Broadbent's previous marriage. Broadbent had been married to Michael Winterbottom and had had two daughters with him, but the couple divorced; Andrew Eaton suggested that Winterbottom went on to reflect the family's life in fiction as well, in the film ''Genova'', although Winterbottom denied th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent (2017 Film)
Descent is a 2017 Nigerian film produced by Nwankwo Chibuzor. Descent addresses issues relating to family, narcotics, love and karma. Descent has won a Recognition Award for Best Picture International Trailer and at the year won the Special Movie Award (SMA) in the Republic of The Gambia. Synopsis Descent tells a story of two underworld kings whose greed and thirst for power and vengeance brought them to hurting each other's family. Descent is a combination of drama and action as the suspense and emotions can put viewers on the edge and in tears. The movie highlights true African story of family, betrayal, trust, greed and power. Cast Some of the major characters in the movie include; * Zack Orji Zachee Ama Orji (born 1960) is a Nigerian actor, director, producer and filmmaker known for his role in Nollywood movies Glamour Girls, and Blood Money. Aside from acting, Orji is a preacher. Early History Zachee Ama Orji was born in Librev ... as Kalu Achebe * Matt Stern as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Descent
A royal descent is a genealogical line of descent from a past or present monarch. Both geneticists and genealogists have attempted to estimate the percentage of living people with royal descent. From a genetic perspective, the number of unprovable descendants must be virtually unlimited if going back enough generations, according to coalescent theory, as the possibility increases exponentially following every century back in time. In other words, the number of descendants from a monarch increases as a function of the length of time between the monarch's death and the birth of the particular descendant. As for descendants of genealogically documented royal descent, various estimated figures have been proposed. For instance, Mark Humphrys, a professor of computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland, and genealogy enthusiast, estimated that there are millions of people of provable genealogical ancestry from medieval monarchs. In genealogy, royal descent is sometimes cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent (magazine)
''Descent'' magazine is a bi-monthly British and Irish full-colour print magazine dedicated to caving. It has been in print since 1969, first as a small format magazine and then, from 1977 onwards, in A4 format. The publication is 'written by cavers, for cavers' and features high quality photographs and articles related to underground exploration. As well as the major features, ''Descent'' maintains a network of correspondents in each of the caving regions of the UK and Ireland. The correspondents gather reports on the latest caving discoveries and other caving news for their area. Bruce Bedford was editor from 1969 until 1988. Chris Howes then began to work as editor and bought it from its previous publisher, Gloster Publications, in 1998, bringing it to his and Judith Calford's company, Wild Places Publishing. In 2022, after 34 years and 204 issues as editor, Chris and Judith stepped down with their final issue being for October 2022. As of October 2022, the editor is Chris S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
