IMAGES AND REVERSALS Thinking Like Einstein on the Hokule'a The Continuing Puzzle of the Visual Thomas G. West Author of In the Mind's Eye Using the Best CuesWe Have With the words of Navigator Thompson, in this passage we see a wonderful description of using well the best of what is ready at hand t o do a m o s t i m p o r t a n t job - - on which rests the survival of a whole people. I n d e e d , d u r i n g the past 25 years, t h e successful voyages of the Hokule'a and other long-distance canoes have become cultural milestones and Navigator Nainoa Thompson has become a major hero among all Polynesians [4]. But these voyages and revived navigation skills have much t o teach us all. W e are shown a highly refined example of the observation and visual thinking skills needed t o navigate across the Pacific. If we had not k n o w n b e t t e r , m o s t of us w o u l d have thought that it was not
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Thinking like Einstein on the Hokule'a: the continuing puzzle of the visual
West, Thomas G.
Follow ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
, Volume 36 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 2002
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