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Precisionism
Precisionism is an artform that is a type of minimalism. Precisionism emerged after World War I. Influenced strongly by cubism and Italian futurism, Precisionism dealt with technology and architecture. Prominent artists include Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler.
Category:Minimalism
Category:Postmodernism
Category:Visual art movements
Naming Conventions (Precision)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision)
Be Precise, when necessary.
Convention: Please, do not write or put an article on a page with an ambiguously-named title as though that title had no other meanings!
A reader may have found your article with a search, with Recent Changes or accidentally, or in some other way that robs him of the context, so do him a favor and name your articles ''precisely''.
If a word or phrase is ambiguous, and your article concerns only ''one'' of the meanings of that word or phrase, you should probably--not in all cases, but in many--use something more precise than just that word or phrase. For example, use Apollo program, Nirvana (band), smoking pipe; rather than simply Apollo, Nirvana, Pipe. See disambiguation for more details on that. This is not to say that pages should be constantly disambiguated; often, there is a tendency to include artists and their albums at disambiguated pages, even when there is no need. The basic rule is that, unless you are absolutely sure that a related usage deserves or has an article, no disambiguation is necessary.
Philosophy
Name your pages precisely. If you want to discuss a particular version of realism -- for example, Platonic realism -- then don't call your page realism; call it Platonic realism or even Platonic theories of universals. Notice that Platonism is also ambiguous.
Only a very few famous philosophers can be referred to by a single name. Socrates, Plato are fine; but compare James Mill and John Stuart Mill, or R. W. Sellars and Wilfrid Sellars.
Remember that there are famous ''non-''philosophers who might have the name in question, about whom we might eventually want to have articles!
Best to do a http://www.google.com/ Google search first.
See also: Wikipedia:Disambiguation
Precision
Naming Conventions (Precision)
Adding context to article titles: eg ''American Airlines flight 11 (WTC attack)''
* +: makes more sense if you see a title in recent changed
* +: more descriptive
* Patrick, Tannin
Keeping titles as common as possible (but no more)
* +: Context can be given within the article
* +: searches should pick up info from the body of an article, or from category pages
* +: makes linking easier
* +: makes our naming conventions clear
* mav, Martin, Tannin
(Yeah, yeah, I just contradicted myself. I guess it comes down to having the simplest possible title that is ''not misleading''. It all depends on the particular example. Take Korean Air flight KAL-007. That one is not confusing, because it was major headline news in its own right. American Airlines flight 11, on the other hand, was just yet another part of the WTC attack, and should be named that way. Tannin)
Precision-Guided Munition
Precision-guided munitions (smart munitions or smart bombs) are self-guiding weapons intended to maximize damage to the target while minimizing "collateral damage". Because the damage effects of an explosive weapon scale as a power law with distance, quite modest improvements in accuracy (and hence reduction in miss distance) enables a target to be effectively attacked with fewer and/or smaller bombs. Thus, even if some bombs miss, fewer aircrews are put at risk and collateral damage is greatly reduced. The creation of precision-guided munitions resulted in the renaming of older bombs as "gravity bombs", "dumb bombs" or "iron bombs".
Ironically, despite the greater precision of precision-guided weapons, the failure of their guidance systems can cause greater damage than a miss from an ordinary bomb. Misses from older, unguided munitions are generally normally distributed around the aim point. Thus it can be assumed that the further you are from the target, the safer you are. On the other hand, most smart bomb misses are caused by system failures—a jammed steering fin, computer failure, loss of homing signal, etc. In this case, the weapon is actually more likely to miss the target by a very large distance, than by a small distance.
Types of precision-guided munitions
Radio-controlled weapons
The United States Army began experimenting with radio-controlled remotely guided planes in the First World War, but the program had few successes. The first successful experiments with guided bombs were conducted during World War II when television-guided bombs, flare sighted bombs and other steerable munitions were developed. The Germans developed several types of steerable munitions, such as the Fritz X. There was even an attempt to produce a glider bomb that was released from a larger plane over the target, but the program stopped with the nuclear attacks in Japan.
Visually-guided weapons
The programs started again
Precision-Guided Munition
"...weapons intended to maximize damage to the target while THEORETICALLY minimizing collateral damage."
I think that the use of "theoretically" in this context is redundant and bordering on non-NPOV. It is redundant because it is already stated that these are "intended" traits. We could go even further and just define "precision-guided munition" as "weapons that maximize damage to the target while minimizing collateral damage", then we could discuss to what extent existing weapons fit that definition.
While I'm no expert on the topic, I think that existing weapons (laser guided bombs, for example) do fit that definition without any qualifiers (such as "intended" or "theoretically"). The important point is that they minimize collateral damage RELATIVE to the intended damage. This does not mean that they reduce overall collateral damage.
Finally, there should probably be some note about how these traits are relative to the expense or risk to the attacker. An assasins knife could be considered "precision guided" just because there is little chance of a random person being killed by such a weapon. However, the assasin needs to be highly trained and needs to take great risks to use it in such a precise way.
adam
increased damage
Someone should put in that PGM also increase the likelihood of damage being done to the object being targetted, making them more effective weapons. Stargoat 16:56, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:It says that twice in the first paragraph - directly in the first sentence, and by implication in the second. Securiger 06:41, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Optique & PréCision De Levallois
Société Optique et Précision de Levallois, S.A. (OPL) was founded in 1919, although its predecessor dated from 1911. It produced rangefinders, military, medical, and scientific optics, and the "Foca" and other rangefinder cameras, at Levallois (a Paris suburb) and Châteaudun (Eure et Loire).
Sales fell off after 1961 and on 1 January 1964 OPL entered into an arrangement with Lumière. In December 1964, the company merged with Société d'Optique et de Mécanique de Haute Précision (SOM), maker of SOM-Berthiot lenses to form Société d'Optique, Précision, Electronique et Mécanique (SOPEM, later Sopelem), now at Dijon.
http://gilles.delahaye.chez.tiscali.fr/ Foca–OPL (Gilles Delahaye)
http://roland.weber4.free.fr/ Matériels & Accessoires O.P.L.–Foca (Roland Weber)
Category:Photography companies
Spectra
''Spectra is the plural of spectrum. Spectra is also a type of synthetic fiber.''
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''Spectra'': ''A Book of Poetic Experiments'' was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym "Emanuel Morgan", and Arthur Davison Ficke, who wrote as "Anne Knish."
''Spectra'' was preceded by a brief manifesto outlining the methods of Spectrism as a school:
"In the first place, it speaks, to the mind of that process of diffraction by which are disarticulated the several colored and other rays of which light is composed. . . ."
"In its second sense, the term Spectric relates to the reflex vibrations of physical sight, and suggests the luminous appearance which is seen after the exposure of the eye to intense light, and, by analogy, the after-colors of the poets initial vision."
"In its third sense, Spectric connotes the overtones, adumbrations, or spectres which for the poet haunt all objects of both the seen and unseen world. . . "
With this vague program, the two poets adopted personas for their namesakes. The poems in the collection were not given titles, merely opus numbers. "Emanuel Morgan" was a rhyming Whitman, full of bacchanalian, bardic blatherskite. From "Opus 6:"
:''If I were only dafter''
::''I might be making hymns''
:''To the liquor of your laughter''
::''And the lacquer of your limbs.''
"Anne Knish" was the archetypal poetess, full of oracular ''ipse dixits'', sensual, enigmatic, and vaguely scandalous. In 1916, most Americans were unfamiliar with Eastern European cooking and had never heard of knishes; the pseudonym was intended to be exotic and slightly oriental. Here is Knish's Opus 118:
:''If bathing were a virtue, not a lust''
:''I would be dirtiest.''
:''To some, housecleaning is a holy rite.''
:''For myself, houses would be empty''
:''But for the golden motes dancing in sunbeams.''
:''Tax-assessors frequently
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