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Active effectiveness vs passive kindness’ struggle in Macchiavelli’s theories applied to production
1- You should never believe that your opposition does not know their business. Do not take any project lightly.
2- Acquire fame as able, not as good.
3- To know how to recognize an opportunity in any struggle benefits you more than anything else.
4- Make your opposition suspect their own instruments in whom they confide.
Do not commit to any one solution.5- Guard those places better by which you think you can be hurt less.
6- Don’t keep beside you either too great lovers of passiveness or too great lovers of passion.
7- Act so your opposition do not know how you want to organize your plans. But organize your team so they can support each other independently on the plan.
8- Never lead your team into a project unless you are assured of their commitment and confidence in the result. Discipline counts more than passion. Testing a plan helps with final results.
9- Train your team to get used to difficult situations and circumstances.
10- What benefits the opposition harms you and what benefits you harms the opposition.
11- Carefully detail your opposition and objective and plan accordingly.
12- Nature creates very few talents, but dedication and training make many.
13- Always, always consider and reserve resources for a plan B.
14- Keep your team focused until the results are obtained.
15- Organize a team so that is not specialized but flexible in all ventures. But always be clear on assigned tasks.
16- Counsel about options with many, but discuss details with few.
17- Never commit yourself to a specific task in a large project, unless necessity compels you or opportunity calls.
18- Do not rush but take a moment to analyze unexpected issues.
19- Love peace but be educated on how to be bold and move forward.
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Rendering – BRDF – Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_reflectance_distribution_function
The bidirectional reflectance distribution function is a four-dimensional function that defines how light is reflected at an opaque surface
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~zhu/tutorial/An_Introduction_to_BRDF-Based_Lighting.pdf
In general, when light interacts with matter, a complicated light-matter dynamic occurs. This interaction depends on the physical characteristics of the light as well as the physical composition and characteristics of the matter.
That is, some of the incident light is reflected, some of the light is transmitted, and another portion of the light is absorbed by the medium itself.
A BRDF describes how much light is reflected when light makes contact with a certain material. Similarly, a BTDF (Bi-directional Transmission Distribution Function) describes how much light is transmitted when light makes contact with a certain material
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smr/cs348c-97/surveypaper.html
It is difficult to establish exactly how far one should go in elaborating the surface model. A truly complete representation of the reflective behavior of a surface might take into account such phenomena as polarization, scattering, fluorescence, and phosphorescence, all of which might vary with position on the surface. Therefore, the variables in this complete function would be:
incoming and outgoing angle incoming and outgoing wavelength incoming and outgoing polarization (both linear and circular) incoming and outgoing position (which might differ due to subsurface scattering) time delay between the incoming and outgoing light ray