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Inhabitance is a Digital Interactive Installation employing the use of projection design, sound design, infrared depth mapping, and complex programming in the languages Processing and Java, in order to create an experiential work that leaves a lasting impact on both participants and the work itself. At it’s core, Inhabitance is about spatial and sensory presence. Taking distinct inspiration from other interactive projection works such as Snow Fall (2009) by Italian media studio FUSE°, and Text Rain (1995) by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv, Inhabitance encourages participants to allow the boundary between their physical bodies and digital representations to blur. Participants who enter the active area of the installation are greeted with a white silhouette of themselves in a sea of letters. These letters, as they will soon discover, are not stationary. They react and interact with the movements made within the active area of the installation. Similarly to how participants in Text Rain soon begin to experiment with the interaction with the text, those in Inhabitance begin to “play” and test the rules of this newfound sensory environment. However, there is one more layer of interaction to be discovered. As soon as a letter moves, it creates a sound. Another is added to the space when another letter is moved. Each interactive object on the screen fills the space with sound, allowing participants to orchestrate their own accompaniment to the space. As those inside come to allow the boundary between physical and digital to blur, they now also begin the process of blurring the boundary between sight and sound. Reminiscent of Synesthesia (the condition where one sense triggers the experience of a different sense, such as sound triggering a sense of touch), the blurring of senses allows participants to experience a sense of “diminished consciousness of self”, and create an audiovisual experience totally unique to them. These letters and sounds will continue long after the participants have left the space, allowing messages, chords, or any other lasting impression to be passed onto those that will come next. Each new participant’s experience is a fully unique version, informed by those that have come before. “Under the hood” of Inhabitance is a complex marriage of software and hardware. Kinect cameras create an accurate depth map of the space, and feed their findings directly into Processing. Processing, with the help of libraries crafted by Daniel Schiffman, takes the Kinect information and uses that to draw a silhouette of any participants in a specific range. The letters and sounds are also handled by Processing, but without the use of a pre-built library. The letter objects, sonic interaction, and collision have all been coded by hand and are specific to the use-case of Inhabitance. / Theater / Film and Media Arts / Accompanied by two files: 1) Spratlin-Thesis-2023.pdf, 2) Inhabitance.zip / Accompanied by two files: 1) Spratlin-Thesis-2023.pdf, 2) Inhabitance.zip

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Title: Descriptive geometry applications in cartography Author: Jana Vlčková Department: Department of Mathematics Education Supervisor: RNDr. Vlasta Moravcová, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics Education Abstract: This thesis is focused on constructions of geographic nets in maps and serves as a base for studies and teaching for teachers and students of secondary schools or universities, which are focused on the cartography field. The thesis contains seven chapters, the first of which describes basic terms used in the thesis. Other chapters deal with the analysis of chosen cartography projections, whereas first three chapters concerns with the projection of the globe into a plane, another two chapters concerns with a cylindrical surface and the last one concerns with a conical surface. Constructive tasks, which serve for practising the subject matter, are enclosed for each chapter. Key words: cartographic projection, azimuthal projection, ortographic projection, gno- monic projection, stereographic projection, cylindrical projection, conical projection 1

Among a number of fundamental issues, the origin of inertial mass remains one of the major open problems in particle physics. Furthermore, topological effects related to non perturbative field configurations are poorly understood in those gauge theories of direct relevance to our physical universe. Motivated by such issues, this Thesis provides a deeper understanding for the appearance of topological effects in abelian gauge field theories, also in relation to the existence of a mass gap for the gauge interactions. These effects are not accounted for when proceeding through gauge fixings as is customary in the literature. The original Topological-Physical factorisation put forth in this work enables to properly identify in topologically massive gauge theories (TMGT) a topological sector which appears under formal limits within the Lagrangian formulation. Our factorisation then allows for a straightforward quantisation of TMGT, accounting for all the topological features inherent to such dynamics. Moreover dual actions are constructed while preserving the gauge symmetry also in the presence of dielectric couplings. All the celebrated mass generation mechanisms preserving the gauge symmetry are then recovered but now find their rightful place through a network of dualities, modulo the presence of topological terms generating topological effects. In particular a dual formulation of the famous Nielsen-Olesen vortices is constructed from TMGT. Within a novel physically equivalent picture, these topological defects are interpreted as dielectric monopoles.

The problem was a study of the effectiveness of overhead projectuals and a transparent projection box in teaching orthographic projection.