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The Sight
Sight is visual perception. Sight or Sights may also refer to: *An object of sightseeing, a point of interest *Sight (device), used to assist aim by guiding the eye **Sighting in, adjusting firearms sights *Sight, an angular measurement in celestial navigation *Sight (Keller Williams video), ''Sight'' (Keller Williams video), a 2005 concert DVD by Keller Williams *The Sight (film), ''The Sight'' (film), a 2000 American horror television film *"The Sight", a Brian Moore (novelist)#Short stories, short story by Brian Moore *''The Sight'', a 1985 film based on the short story by Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore *Sight (2008 film), ''Sight'' (2008 film), a 2008 film *Sight (2023 film), ''Sight'' (2023 film), a film starring Greg Kinnear *The Sight (Hunter novel), ''The Sight'' (Hunter novel), 2007 novel in the ''Warriors: Power of Three'' series by Erin Hunter *The Sight (Clement-Davies novel), ''The Sight'' (Clement-Davies novel), a 2002 book about wolves by David Clement-Davies *T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight
Visual perception is the ability to detect light and use it to form an image of the surrounding Biophysical environment, environment. Photodetection without image formation is classified as ''light sensing''. In most vertebrates, visual perception can be enabled by photopic vision (daytime vision) or scotopic vision (night vision), with most vertebrates having both. Visual perception detects light (photons) in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment or emitted by light sources. The light, visible range of light is defined by what is readily perceptible to humans, though the visual perception of non-humans often extends beyond the visual spectrum. The resulting perception is also known as vision, sight, or eyesight (adjectives ''visual'', ''optical'', and ''ocular'', respectively). The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system, and are the focus of much research in linguistics, psychology, cognitive s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sightseeing
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international. International tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, tourism numbers declined due to a severe economic slowdown (see Great Recession) and the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. These numbers, however, recovered until the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to the growth. The United Nations World Tourism Organization has estimated that global international tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Of Interest
A point of interest (POI) is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting. An example is a point on the Earth representing the location of the Eiffel Tower, or a point on Mars representing the location of its highest mountain, Olympus Mons. Most consumers use the term when referring to hotels, campsites, fuel stations or any other categories used in modern automotive navigation systems. Users of a mobile device can be provided with geolocation and time-aware POI service that recommends geolocations nearby and with a temporal relevance (e.g. POI to special services in a ski resort are available only in winter). The term is widely used in cartography, especially in electronic variants including GIS, and GPS navigation software. In this context the synonym waypoint is common. A GPS point of interest specifies, at minimum, the latitude and longitude of the POI, assuming a certain map datum. A name or description for the POI is usually included, and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight (device)
A sight or sighting device is any gadget, device used to assist in precise visual perception, visual alignment (i.e. ''aiming'') of weapons, surveying instruments, aircraft equipment, optical illumination equipment or larger optical instruments with the intended target. Sights can be a simple set or system of physical markers that serve as visual references for directly aligning the user's line of sight with the target (such as iron sights on firearms), or optical instruments that provide an optically enhanced—often magnification, magnified—target image aligned in the same focus (optics), focus with an aiming point (e.g. telescopic sight, telescopic, reflector sight, reflector and holographic sights). There are also sights that actively project an illuminated point of aim (a.k.a. "hot spot") onto the target itself so it can be observed by anyone with a direct view, such as laser sight (firearms), laser sights and infrared illuminators on some night vision devices, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sighting In
In ranged weapons such as firearms and artillery pieces, the act of sighting in or sight-in is a preparatory or corrective calibration of the sights with the goal of having the projectile (e.g. bullet or shell) placed on a predictable impact position in relation to the sight picture. The principle of sighting-in is to shift the line of aim until it intersects the parabolic projectile trajectory at a designated point of reference, so when the gun is fired in the future (provided there is reliable precision) it will repeatably hit where it aims at identical distances of that designated point. Because when using a telescopic sight, the crosshair lines geometrically resemble the X- and Y-axis of the Cartesian coordinate system where the reticle center is analogous to the origin point (i.e. coordinate ,0, the designated sighting-in point is known as a zero, and the act of sighting-in is therefore also called zeroing. A gunsight that remains true to its designated zero after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestial Navigation
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the surface of the Earth without relying solely on estimated positional calculations, commonly known as dead reckoning. Celestial navigation is performed without using satellite navigation or other similar modern electronic or digital positioning means. Celestial navigation uses "sights," or timed angular measurements, taken typically between a celestial body (e.g., the Sun, the Moon, a planet, or a star) and the visible horizon. Celestial navigation can also take advantage of measurements between celestial bodies without reference to the Earth's horizon, such as when the Moon and other selected bodies are used in the practice called "lunars" or the Lunar distance (navigation), lunar distance method, used for determining precise time when time is u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight (Keller Williams Video)
''Sight'' was a DVD released in 2005. The film is a recording of a two-day concert run by Keller Williams in November 2004 at Mr. Small's theater facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The video includes 100 minutes of concert footage, including covers of songs by The Grateful Dead (''Ship of Fools''), Ani DiFranco (''Swing'') and Harold Arlen Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film ' .../ Ted Koehler (''Stormy Weather''). Video Track Listings # Roshambo # People Watching # Juggler # Fuel for the Road # Freeker by the Speaker # Mental Brunette Instra # Ninja # Dear Emily # Above the Thunder # You Are What You Eat # Ship of Fools # Stormy Weather # Dogs # Not Tomorrow # Swing # Garage Night # Best Feeling # Smurd Credits *Megan Agosto - Editing *Mark Berger - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sight (film)
''The Sight'' is a 2000 horror television film starring Andrew McCarthy. It was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and aired on FX in the United States on October 29, 2000. Premise Michael Lewis ( Andrew McCarthy) is an American architect who is sent to Britain to refurbish an old London hotel, where he soon begins to have strange visions and frightening dreams. Cast * Andrew McCarthy as Michael Lewis * Kevin Tighe as Jake * Amanda Redman as Detective Pryce * Jessica Oyelowo as Isobel Production The film was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson as a pilot for an unsold weekly TV series. It was almost entirely filmed in London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester .... Reception Kevin Lyons from the website "The EOFFTV Review" gave the film a mix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore ( ; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films. Early life and education Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight (2008 Film)
''Sight'' is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Adam Ahlbrandt. Plot Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a beautiful young woman who shares his "sight", Jeffery finds comfort in knowing someone shares his affliction. However, his comfort is short lived as Dana suddenly goes missing and Jeffrey is left alone to find the answers. Cast Reception Bloody Disgusting gave ''Sight'' a 1½ out of 5, the website's primary criticisms of the film being the muddled plot, and the sound quality. A ½ was awarded by Steve Barton of Dread Central, who succinctly stated, "The only constructive thing I can say about this dark, dreary, time-consuming, black hole of a film is that it was less than an hour and a half long and had some okay sound design". DVD Talk's Justin Felix, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight (2023 Film)
''Sight'' is a 2023 American biographical drama film directed by Andrew Hyatt, written by Hyatt, John Duigan, and Buzz McLaughlin, and starring Terry Chen and Greg Kinnear. The film is about Ming Wang, a Chinese immigrant to the United States who became a renowned eye surgeon. It is based on Wang's 2016 autobiography ''From Darkness to Sight''. The film premiered on October 5, 2023, at the Heartland International Film Festival, and was released in the United States and Canada on May 24, 2024, by Angel Studios. Cast Production Filming began in Vancouver in April 2021 and wrapped after a six-week shoot in October 2021. Release In April 2023, it was reported that Briarcliff Entertainment had acquired distribution rights for ''Sight'' and scheduled a release date for October 27, 2023. In February 2024, Angel Studios acquired the rights and scheduled the film to be released on May 24, 2024. Reception Critical response Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore CinemaScore is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sight (Hunter Novel)
''The Sight'' is a children's fantasy novel. It was released on 24 April 2007, and it is the first installment of the '' Warriors: Power of Three'' series by Erin Hunter. The book was recommended as Children's Summer Reading by the ''Washington Post'' Children's Book Club. Plot summary In the prologue, it is revealed that near the conclusion of '' Firestar's Quest'', a prophecy was sent to Firestar by a cat in StarClan. After a report of a fox and her cubs loose in ThunderClan territory, the three kits, Lionkit, Hollykit, and Jaykit, secretly leave camp and try to track down the foxes and help their Clan. They end up in trouble, but are saved by a patrol. A few moons later, Hollypaw becomes Leafpool's (the medicine cat) apprentice; Lionpaw becomes Ashfur's apprentice; and Jaypaw becomes Brightheart's apprentice. At a Gathering, all Clans have little to report. In the middle of the Gathering, two unknown cats appear. The Clans realize they are Graystripe, with a new friend, Millie. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
