Exploring the Occult Secrets of the Witching Mirror in Deridder

A witching mirror, also known as a scrying mirror or black mirror, is a tool used in divination practices. It is a reflective surface, typically black in color, that is used by witches and other practitioners to see visions or gain insight into the past, present, or future. The concept of scrying dates back to ancient times, with cultures around the world using various techniques to obtain information through reflective surfaces. In witchcraft, scrying is a common practice and the witching mirror is one of the preferred tools for this form of divination. The witching mirror is typically made from black glass or obsidian, a type of volcanic glass with a shiny, reflective surface. It can also be made using other materials, such as blackened mirrors or glass with a reflective black coating.

Abstract: A sensor device is provided for generating an electrical output signal in dependence on the position of a light source in relation to the sensor device. The sensor device has a three-dimensional switch carrier with several adjacent faces oriented in different directions, on which faces at least two sensors are arranged. On the two sides of a central face, there is arranged in each case a face, with an infrared light (IR) photodetector in each case, oriented at an angle to the central face, whereby the faces on which the IR photodetectors are arranged are not directly adjacent to one another.

The feedback method compensates for light emission variation as the sources age, thus ensuring that the lighting apparatus continues to produce the desired lighting effects. The feedback method compensates for light emission variation as the sources age, thus ensuring that the lighting apparatus continues to produce the desired lighting effects.

It can also be made using other materials, such as blackened mirrors or glass with a reflective black coating. The darkness of the mirror is said to help the practitioner better focus their mind and enter a relaxed state conducive to receiving visions or messages. To use a witching mirror, the practitioner will typically sit in a dimly lit room and gaze into the reflective surface.

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Abstract: A method for measuring a parameter of a movement of an object, in which a series of successive first time-spaced linear images and a second spaced linear image are taken, (a) a first development of first linear images and (b) a second development consisting of at least one second image are formed, and linear images of the first development are compared at least partly with at least a part of a linear image of the second development to determine the part of a spaced linear image of the first development which best corresponds to a part of a linear image of the second development.

Receiving circuit for free-space optical communication

Abstract: An amplifier circuit amplifies the difference between an output voltage from a current voltage conversion circuit and a bias voltage. The current voltage conversion circuit converts a photocurrent of a photodiode which detect incoming light into a voltage. A gm-amp charges or discharges a capacity by a current corresponding to the difference between the output voltage from the amplifier circuit and a reference voltage. A field effect transistor supplies a drain current, which is controlled by voltages at the respective terminals of the capacity, to the photodiode, in order to prevent the output voltage of the amplifier circuit from being varied due to the influence of a DC photocurrent flowing in the photodiode. The gate of a field effect transistor, which is connected in parallel to a current voltage conversion resistor, has an identical voltage with the gate of the field effect transistor.

Fiber optic-based probe for use in saltwater and similarly conductive media as found in unenclosed natural environments

Abstract: Arrays of optical fibers connected to specially configured electronics, e.g., a phototransistor, an LED, an amplifier, a detector, and display, software and PCMCIA A/D board available on a personal computer, are used to obtain continuous real-time acquisition, processing, and visualization of change in a media occurring in natural environments. Alternatively, many of the individual circuit elements above may be replaced with a power meter. In a specific application, data are collected on the depth of sediment below a body of water. As the sediment depth is changed by an event, the ends of the optical fibers in the array display a different reflection or transmission coefficient indicating that water has replaced sediment or vice versa. By knowing which of the optical fiber ends in the array is indicating the changed reflection or transmission coefficient, scour depth or silt accretion may be estimated. A method of employment of the system is also described.

Solid-state image pickup device and image pickup camera

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device 20 according to the present invention includes a plurality of light-receiving sensor portions 2 arrayed in the horizontal and vertical directions and interconnection layers of a plurality of layers formed through interlayer insulators so as to form opening portions 423 at their portions corresponding to the respective light-receiving sensor portions 2, wherein the opening portions 423 of the uppermost layer of the interconnection layer are shifted from the light-receiving sensor portions 2 toward the center of the image pickup area in any one direction of the horizontal direction or the vertical directions. Thus, it is possible to provide a solid-state image pickup device and an image pickup camera including this solid-state image pickup device capable of restraining shading while interconnection and layout of interconnection layers are being facilitated.

Method and apparatus for coincident viewing at a plurality of wavelengths

Abstract: A plurality of imagers, each responsive to a different wavelength range of light radiation, share the same optical system of lenses. An optical film on a substrate is used to split the light beam emanating from the shared optical system. The first wavelength range is reflected by the film to a first imager. The second wavelength range is transmitted through the film and the substrate to a second imager.

Method of adjusting multiple light sources to compensate for variation in light output that occurs with time

Abstract: A feedback method on occasion independently senses a characteristic of light produced by each of several light sources in a lighting apparatus. The sensed value of that characteristic is compared to a reference value for the respective light source and that light source's operation is adjusted accordingly. This method has particular application in a lighting apparatus that produces different lighting effects by varying the intensity of different colors of light produced by the various light sources. The feedback method compensates for light emission variation as the sources age, thus ensuring that the lighting apparatus continues to produce the desired lighting effects. This enables multiple lighting apparatus in an area to be calibrated to the same standard so that uniform illumination is provided.

Method and apparatus for calculating image correction data and projection system

Abstract: An image correction data calculation method comprises the steps of acquiring an input-output characteristic at each of a plurality of display elements on a display screen of an image display device, on the basis of image data captured by a CCD camera (steps S101 to S105), setting a target input-output characteristic to be obtained at each of the plurality of display elements (step S106), and calculating image correction data used to correct the input-output characteristic for an input image signal, according to the locations of display elements on the screen, on the basis of the input-output characteristic acquired in the acquisition step and the target input-output characteristic to be obtained (step S107).

Quantum computer and quantum computation method

Abstract: Quantum computer includes optical systems arranged in series each of the plurality of optical systems includes first half-wave plate, first polarizing beam splitter, first switching mirror, first photodetector, first polarization rotator, optical cavity which contains atom, second switching mirror, second photodetector, second polarization rotator, and high reflection mirror, first polarization beam splitter outputting third light beam received from first switching mirror or second switching mirror to adjacent one of optical systems, third switching mirrors each provided between adjacent two optical systems, each of third switching mirrors reflecting or transmitting light beam output from one of two optical systems, light sources each providing light beam to corresponding optical system, and measurement system which measures polarization of incoming light beam.

Optical displacement sensor using optical fiber, and external force detecting device

Abstract: An optical displacement sensor is provided, in which an optical fiber is disposed between a light source and a light receiving means so that light emitted from the light source is conducted therethrough so as to be duly received by the light receiving means whereby a beam diameter can be controlled and a uniform intensity distribution of emitted light can be ensured without providing a pinhole aperture. Also, a six-axis force sensor incorporating such an optical displacement sensor is provided.

Sensor device with three-dimensional switch carrier having differently oriented infrared photodetectors

Abstract: A sensor device is provided for generating an electrical output signal in dependence on the position of a light source in relation to the sensor device. The sensor device has a three-dimensional switch carrier with several adjacent faces oriented in different directions, on which faces at least two sensors are arranged. On the two sides of a central face, there is arranged in each case a face, with an infrared light (IR) photodetector in each case, oriented at an angle to the central face, whereby the faces on which the IR photodetectors are arranged are not directly adjacent to one another.

Semiconductor imaging system and related methodology

Abstract: An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable characteristics of the medium. A computer, memory, and/or display associated with the sensor provides storage and/or display of information relating to output from the receptors to produce and/or process an image, wherein a plurality of illumination sources can also be utilized in conjunction with the image transfer medium. The image transfer medium can be configured as a k-space filter that correlates a pitch associated with the receptors to a diffraction-limited spot associated with the image transfer medium, wherein the pitch can be unit-mapped to about the size of the diffraction-limited spot.

Method and sensing device for motion detection in an optical pointing device, such as an optical mouse

Abstract: There is described a method for measuring relative motion between an illuminated portion of a surface and an optical sensing device comprising a photodetector array including a plurality of rows and columns of pixels respectively aligned along first and second axes comprising essentially the steps of comparing at a first point in time light intensity between neighbouring pixels of the photodetector array and determining along each of the first and second axes, edge direction data from the detected first light intensity pattern, extracting edge inflection data from the edge direction data from the detected first light intensity pattern, comparing at a second point in time light intensity between neighbouring pixels and determining along each of said first and second axes, the edge direction data from the detected second light intensity pattern, extracting edge inflection data from the edge direction data from the detected second light intensity pattern.

Optical tracking sensor method

Abstract: The present invention is a method of optical tracking sensing using block matching to determine relative motion. The method includes three distinct means of compensating for non-uniform illumination: (1) a one-time calibration technique, (2) a real-time adaptive calibration technique, and (3) several alternative filtering methods. The system also includes a means of generating a prediction of the displacement of the sampled frame as compared to the reference frame. Finally, the method includes three cumulative checks to ensure that the correlation of the measured displacement vectors is good: (1) ensuring that “runner-up” matches are near the best match, (2) confirming that the predicted displacement is close to the measured displacement, and (3) block matching with a second reference frame.

Near-field scanning optical microscope for laser machining of micro- and nano- structures

Abstract: A near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) laser micromachining system for laser machining features on surfaces using an ultrafast laser source and a method of laser machining such features. The system includes: the ultrafast laser source to generate pulses of laser light having pulse durations less than 1 ns and a peak wavelength; an NSOM probe having a substantially cylindrical shape; an NSOM mount to controllably hold the NSOM probe and the microstructure workpiece to be machined; an NSOM probe monitor coupled to the NSOM mount for determining the distance between the probe tip of the NSOM probe and the surface; and an NSOM controller coupled to the NSOM probe monitor, and motion stages in the NSOM mount. The NSOM mount includes an XY motion stage and a Z motion stage. These motion stages are couple to either the NSOM probe or the microstructure workpiece, or one motion stage to each.

Illuminated and non-illuminated photodiodes for monitoring and controlling AC and DC components of a laser beam

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention utilize two photodiodes on the same substrate, one illuminated monitor photodiode to monitor an optical beam out of a back facet (or back scattered) of a laser, and one non-illuminated reference photodiode to characterize in real time radio frequency (RF) parameters/performance to control extinction ratio and optical modulation amplitude of the laser beam.

Methods and systems for in situ calibration of imaging in biological analysis

Abstract: Software, methods, and systems for calibrating photometric devices are provided. These involve using a non-uniform test illumination field to approximate a photon transfer curve by calculating stable pixel values and statistical dispersions on a pixel-by-pixel basis.

Method and apparatus for high-throughput inspection of large flat patterned media using dynamically programmable optical spatial filtering

Abstract: In an inspection system for planar objects having periodic structures, programmable optical Fourier filtering in the focal plane of a telecentric lens system is used to directly identify physical phenomena indicative of non-periodic defects. Lens assemblies and a coherent optical source are used to generate and observe a spatial Fourier transform of a periodic structure in the Fourier plane. Optical Fourier filtering (OFF) is performed in the focal plane using an electrically programmable and electrically alignable spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator with high signal to noise ratio is electrically reconfigurable according to a feedback-driven, filter construction and alignment algorithm. The OFF enhances any non-periodic components present in the Fourier plane and final image plane of the object. A system having a plurality of inspection channels provides high-throughput inspection of objects with small non-periodic defects while maintaining high detection sensitivity.

Method and apparatus for mapping of wafers located inside a closed wafer cassette

Abstract: Wafers in a cassette are mapped without having to open the cassette. The cassette is at least partially transparent to a particular type of radiation. A source of the radiation is directed into the cassette, through a transparent or translucent part of the cassette, and an imaging sensor sensitive to the radiation detects radiation that is reflected off the wafers inside the cassette. A second source of radiation and a second camera preferably provide additional images of the wafers from a different angle. By processing these images, the spatial orientation of the wafers and loading status of the cassette can be determined.

Photoelectric converter method for driving photoelectric converter and system having photoelectric converter for image formation converted from radiation

Abstract: There is provided a photoelectric converter comprising a photoelectric conversion element of a laminated structure comprising a first electrode layer, an insulation layer for blocking the passage of a first carrier and a second carrier, a photoelectric conversion semiconductor layer, an injection blocking layer for blocking the injection of the first carrier to the photoelectric conversion semiconductor layer, and a second electrode layer, wherein a switching means is provided for operating the converter by switching the following three operation modes a) through c) for applying an electric field to each layer of the photoelectric conversion element; a) an idling mode for emitting the second carrier from the photoelectric conversion element, b) a refreshment mode for refreshing the first carrier accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element, and c) a photoelectric conversion mode for generating pairs of the first carrier and the second carrier in accordance with an amount of incident light to accumulate

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It is important to maintain a relaxed and open mind during this process. The blackness of the mirror provides a blank canvas for the mind to project visions or symbols onto. As the practitioner gazes into the mirror, they may start to see images, symbols, or scenes appearing in their mind's eye. These visions can be interpreted to gain insights and guidance on various aspects of life, such as relationships, career, and personal growth. The practitioner may also use the mirror to connect with spirits or receive messages from the other side. The witching mirror is not limited to divination purposes. It can also be used for self-reflection and introspection. Looking into the mirror can help a witch or practitioner gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their own subconscious thoughts and desires. It is worth noting that scrying, including the use of the witching mirror, is not a guaranteed method of divination. It requires practice, patience, and an open mind. Some practitioners may find it easier to scry using other tools, such as water, crystals, or flame. In conclusion, a witching mirror, also known as a scrying mirror or black mirror, is a tool used in witchcraft and divination practices. It is a reflective surface, traditionally black in color, that helps practitioners gain insight and receive visions. Whether used for divination or self-reflection, the witching mirror is a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled practitioner..

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