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Thursday, September 30, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Professor developing new word dimensions
By ROB EMBERS
Staff Writer
You are reading this sentence in one dimension. The words are in a linear formation from left to right and represent a complete thought.
Now, imagine a two or three-dimensional language where a word represents a point or a place in space. That is the basic idea of geology, professor of geology, is researching.
Nunley is being assisted in his research by Jeff Roper, Wichita sophomore, and the space-age VP-8 image analyzer, a computer graphic system capable of photographing a two-dimensional object and projecting it in three dimensions.
Nunley said yesterday that he wan't sure what a two-dimension language would be, but that it probably would be best identified who did not have a well developed vocabulary.
"THE BEST HUMAN mind for developing a language is probably a kid who watched a lot of television and did no reading," he said.
Nunley he planned to build a follow-up system to the VP-8 for $375,000. He said he hoped to pay for the project through a research grant.
"We want to build it primarily for kids and just let them play with it," he said, "Anything they can imagine we're going to try to do."
Nunley said his job would be to recreate on the computer monitor the form or image that the child wanted. He said it was imaged and followed the child's interest as it developed.
“It’s going to take a human brain to develop the language but it’s also going to take a human mind with a minimum of one-dimensional bias,” he said.
KU blood drive short 20 pints
The Red Cross Blood Drive netted 730 pins during the three days it was held in the Kansas Ballroom this week. The team visited yesterday, fell short of its 750-pin goal.
"I was very pleased with the response we got on campus." Maribeth Brolen, student coordinator of the drive, said yesterday. "It was a lot of 400 pints, so this was quite an improvement."
Olson attributed the increase to more faculty participation, newspaper coverage and increased interest in the program.
The Bloodmobile will return to campus next semester, a week before spring break.
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(illustrated slightly less than actual size.)
Stainless steel case and bracelet, $550.
No larger than a good-sized man's wristwatch.
Adds . subtrabs . divides . multiplies . figures percentage tags . tells figures . six-digit display . six-digit calculator . ideal gift for the executive.
As an example of what the machine could do, Nunley placed a thin piece of black cardboard beneath a TV camera on a table. The camera was then paired as a multi-colored image on one of the TV monitors, while another monitor displayed the cardboard in three dimensions. This enabled Nunley to enlarge, resize and rotate the image in any direction.
Nunley also produced maps on the VP-8 showing the growth of the United States population since 1778. He said the maps were useful for government planning agencies. The maps were printed on a roll of paper and then application growth represented by isometric lines.
Nunley said the VP-8 was capable of many tasks with new tasks being discovered all the time. He said a person interested in weaving asked him once whether the machine could be applied to her field.
"WITHIN AN HOUR'S time I had developed a system for doing more (among the beings in a day or two) than the human beings have done in the entire history of history."
Nunley said he was constantly trying new thinings with the VP-8.
"The word is interacting. We want the person sitting there interacting with the counter."
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