Virtual reality (VR) is transforming education by enhancing the teaching and learning experiences. This study addresses the application of VR and focuses on understanding textile structures using a ...semester project as an example. VR immerses learners in 3D environments, going beyond traditional microscopy. In this project, textiles and partial textiles from vintage cars from the 1950s were converted from 2D microscope data into virtual reality, bringing together students of communication design, apparel technology, conservation, and excavation. Advanced digital microscopy was used to examine textile surfaces, transform the results into dynamic 3D data, and visualize textiles. This interdisciplinary collaboration promoted knowledge exchange, innovative teaching methods, and transformative thinking.
My kingdom for a horse (or a classic car) Laurs, Dries; Renneboog, Luc
Journal of international financial markets, institutions & money,
January 2019, 2019-01-00, Letnik:
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This paper investigates the price determinants and investment performance of classic cars comprising various categories starting from veteran cars (built between 1888 and 1907) up to modern classics ...(built between 1975 and 1990). We examine a sample of 29,000 classic car auction sales conducted globally between 1998 and 2017. A hedonic pricing methodology is used to construct several classic car price indices, which enable a risk-return analysis. Classic cars appreciated annually by 3.37% and 5.63%, respectively in real and in nominal terms before transaction costs. Investments in ‘blue chip’ classic cars (12.50%) and Italian classics (11.28%) generate the highest annual nominal returns. On a risk-adjusted basis, classic cars have outperformed equity and other emotional assets such as art, but underperformed bonds and gold over the past two decades. The risk-adjusted returns on the category of affordable classics are similar to those of equity investments.
The cars and crumbling buildings, increasingly being renovated into photo-ops and bed and breakfasts for a burgeoning tourist trade, are evidence of a place caught in the legacy of a decades-old cold ...war embargo, preventing the flow of goods and monies yet at the same time experiencing an increased ease in international travel, including most recently with its US neighbor, just a 90-minute plane ride to the north. The images convey both the faded glamour of the 1950s and the long history of Cuba through the effects of cold war politics, layered onto the histories of the Chinese family associations and diasporic communities that appear through Lau's images of the last Chinese-language newspaper, Diario Popular Chino, and the forgotten porticos in the Barrio Chino. Alexandra Chang is Associate Professor of Practice, Art, Culture, and Media at the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University, Newark.
Here are the vignettes TWO WEEKS ago I received a call from my friend, Deepak Mehta, from Goa asking me if I'd like to be a judge at the first ever Vintage and Classic Car and Bike Rally. Before I ...could put the receiver down I got a call from Babu Kamath (Benelli dealer) and Anil Dalal (GTDC), the two brains behind this event who convinced the Goa Tourism Department to be the main sponsor...
Cuba's Car Culture drives through Cuba's love of American cars of the '40s and '50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo.
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