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An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, or has to do with a two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue. They may be captured by optical devices—such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water surfaces.

The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, or an abstract painting. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph.

A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper or textile by photography or digital processes.

A mental image exists in an individual's mind: something one remembers or imagines. The subject of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or "imaginary" entity. For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamt purely in aural-images of dialogues. The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond linguistic or musicological analysis.

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New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...


Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- People looking for natural cures will be happy to know there is one. Two words explain how it works: "I believe." It's the placebo effect - the ability of a dummy pill or a faked treatment to make people feel better, ...


Improving security with face recognition technology

Improving security with face recognition technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...


RIT scholars explore the impact of imaging on our reality

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imaging is the use of machines to enhance humans' ability to perceive things, often by producing visible phenomena that cannot be seen with the naked eye. But, can imaging technology distort reality and even change what humans ...


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Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on November 5th ...


Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina

Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but new research indicates they also may mirror a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's disease.


Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ...


Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...


The naked truth about our landscape

The naked truth about our landscape

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Australia has been stripped bare of vegetation to expose the surface that lies beneath.


Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it negative, study shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research.


Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

Technology / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...


Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Scientists have found that some individuals in the vegetative and minimally conscious states, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. ...


Slow-moving Marty headed for drier air, cooler waters

Slow-moving Marty headed for drier air, cooler waters

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marty was still holding onto tropical storm status on September 18, with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph and taking a slow march through the Eastern Pacific Ocean.