• In a loose or from a sideways position, the ideas for the exhibition come to us from Milan Kundera's novel 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', where Milan Kundera explores a light and heaviness that he associates with outlooks and ways of being in the world. (mermaidartscentre.ie)
  • Instead, those characters who are heavy cannot accept this unbearable lightness of being, and seek to attach a meaning and weight to what they consider important in life. (mermaidartscentre.ie)
  • In his most famous novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera describes how early Christians were troubled by the idea that God - just like man who was created in his image - had to shit. (brightlightsfilm.com)
  • Kundera's most popular book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, follows a tangle of lovers before and after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. (wrkf.org)
  • Kundera set Unbearable Lightness during this time in Czech history and the book was later made into a movie. (wrkf.org)
  • If we take an image and extract the hue, saturation, and lightness or value components for a given color space, we will see that they may differ substantially from a different color space or model. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hue-Saturation-Lightness converts the image to the Hue/Saturation/Lightness color space, makes corrections to the image, and converts it back to RGB. (borisfx.com)
  • After an intense search with several interested parties, Benobikes and its owner Bernd Nolte rose to the top of the potential buyers with both a business plan that made financial sense and a forward outlook that offered the people and products of AX-Lightness a sustainable future. (bikerumor.com)
  • The lightness of touch, the tangle that could be called the "fabric of the sea", made up of wind, salt and sun, reveal tactile palette-knife strokes that convey dynamism and movement like foam on the surface of waves. (elisabettamilan.com)
  • In accepting the MPavilion 2022 design commission, Bangkok's all(zone) forges permanence in favour of lightness, sustainability and, above all, joy. (australiandesignreview.com)
  • was perceived as the saltiest species, with a lightness in colour and elements of yellow, an odour resembling lemon and fresh grass, and the least crispy, firm, and chewy texture. (lu.se)
  • Lightness was a group exhibition that includes video and sculpture installations and brings together the work of `five artists who are concerned with the struggle to find pattern and meaning in the seemingly random, strange and mysterious world we live in. (mermaidartscentre.ie)
  • With the purchase by Nolte and his taking the role of managing director, he plans to integrate his Benotti line of bikes into the AX-Lightness group to expand sales worldwide of both bikes and components. (bikerumor.com)
  • While luminance is a linear measurement of light, lightness is a linear prediction of the human perception of that light. (wikipedia.org)
  • This distinction is meaningful because human vision's lightness perception is non-linear relative to light. (wikipedia.org)
  • Doubling the quantity of light does not result in a doubling in perceived lightness, only a modest increase. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among no-seatboard light XC harnesses the LIGHTNESS 2 set the standard for comfort. (superflyinc.com)
  • For the LIGHTNESS 3 pilots can choose between a Standard and Light speedbag. (superflyinc.com)
  • With the Light speedbag, and the SAS-TEC back component removed, the LIGHTNESS 3 S size weighs only 2.75 kg, the M 2.90 kg and the L 3.15 kg. (superflyinc.com)
  • Before the holidays we had a chance to go visit the designers and hands-on carbon fabricators that turn light ideas into superlight AX-Lightness components. (bikerumor.com)
  • The optical lightness, rooted in the generation of form resulting from applying operations involving plane symmetry groups along with Le Corbusier's five points of architecture, makes it possible for a construction in exposed concrete and glass to be understood as light, in a traditional sense. (upm.es)
  • There is a constant relationship of opposites, where what is heavy becomes light, where public space is folded across private space, we lose the ground and the vertical as a point of reference for gravity, optical lightness takes precedence over tactile lightness, dynamic to- pology is contrasted with topography. (upm.es)
  • In a subtractive color model (e.g. paint, dye, or ink) lightness changes to a color through various tints, shades, or tones can be achieved by adding white, black, or grey respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • HSL is similar, except that all triples with lightness 1 are pure white. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our goal: To create a collection that is robust and easy to handle, as well as conveying a sense of lightness," he explains. (stylepark.com)
  • But his books always approached them with a sense of humor, a certain lightness. (wrkf.org)
  • The project is a bookstore, located in a plaza between two high-rise buildings in downtown Chicago.The idea came from the desire to give people a place to sense the ordinary but precious lightness in their lives, to give them a place to read, to dream, to see the life of other people and to feel the beauty of nature. (vt.edu)
  • CIELAB L ∗ {\displaystyle L^{*}} is a perceptually uniform lightness prediction that is derived from luminance Y {\displaystyle Y} , but discards the X {\displaystyle X} and Z {\displaystyle Z} , of the CIE XYZ color space. (wikipedia.org)
  • If you would like to know the ingredients for Adidas Adidas Pure Lightness, feel free to reach out to us via email and we will attempt to procure them for you! (99perfume.com)
  • istvan-ujjmeszaros/jquery-colorpickersliders: An advanced color selector with support for human perceived lightness. (github.com)
  • As a result of reengineered suspension and chest strap geometry this third generation of LIGHTNESS has a perfect balance between harness damping and wing feedback. (superflyinc.com)
  • Notice this appears similar in perceived lightness to the original color image. (wikipedia.org)
  • What that means for consumers is that AX-Lightness bikes and components will keep being developed and produced at the ultra premium performance they are known for, all products in development are still moving forward, and the products will continued to be backed by an even stronger and more responsive company. (bikerumor.com)
  • As part of the Lightness.NRW project, a hot die forming (HDF) process was developed that allows high-strength and maximum-strength aluminum alloys - as sheet metal or tubular semi-finished products - to be formed into ultra-lightweight structural components with highly complex geometries. (sms-group.com)
  • In colorimetry and color appearance models, lightness is a prediction of how an illuminated color will appear to a standard observer. (wikipedia.org)
  • In both models, all pure saturated colors indicate the same lightness or value, but this does not relate to the displayed luminance which is determined by the hue. (wikipedia.org)
  • The remainder of this section is a chronology of lightness models, leading to CIECAM02. (wikipedia.org)
  • The LIGHTNESS 3 incorporates a number of important details, including SAS-TEC back protection, ample back pocket, drink pouch holder, optional speedbag access line, relief tube channel, cockpit power cable access and loops for fixing to the chest strap, and easy-to-move setting balls for adjusting the Standard speedbag length. (superflyinc.com)
  • Now, the LIGHTNESS 3 also has removable visco-elastic SAS-TEC crash protection along the whole back. (superflyinc.com)
  • scientists eventually converged on a roughly cube-root curve, consistent with the Stevens's power law for brightness perception, reflecting the fact that lightness is proportional to the number of nerve impulses per nerve fiber per unit time. (wikipedia.org)
  • and understood that after the past few years we all experienced it was time for a bit of lightness, sparkle, color and just plain fun. (ashadedviewonfashion.com)
  • The new LIGHTNESS 3 offers comprehensive comfort both in flight and handling, and there's even more protection. (superflyinc.com)
  • Redesigned suspension and chest strap geometry distinguishes the LIGHTNESS 3 by its excellent comfort in flight - especially when accelerated - and high stability. (superflyinc.com)
  • More protection with each generation: the first LIGHTNESS only had comfort foam, then came the LIGHTNESS 2 with a certified foam protector under the seat. (superflyinc.com)
  • And this with the same comfort as the previous LIGHTNESS 2, but with improved stability in flight. (superflyinc.com)
  • In a rare 1983 interview with the Paris Review, he said: "My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. (wrkf.org)
  • The new options and configuration choices make this third generation of LIGHTNESS modular and flexible as never before. (superflyinc.com)
  • Lightness adjusts the lightness of the image. (borisfx.com)
  • Lightness.NRW - Developing materials and processes for the utilization of recyclable, eco-friendly, and maximum-strength aluminum alloys in mass-producible, ultra-lightweight designs for future mobility. (sms-group.com)
  • The Munsell value has long been used as a perceptually uniform lightness scale. (wikipedia.org)
  • But as I've started sorting through the couple of hundred photos I took on my two days of factory tours, I realized that first we should talk about a pretty important organizational change at AX-Lightness. (bikerumor.com)