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Consider the familiar pattern: As a technology matures and as organizations increasingly invest in that technology, the need to preserve its common standards and practices also increases. The status quo sets in, as that technology's major stakeholders grow progressively more unwelcoming to innovative ideas. As innovation finds other outlets, the technology grows less relevant and, with time, goes the way of the dinosaurs.
Has Java reached that stage already? Or is Java just now starting to really take off? Those are fair questions considering Java has enjoyed seven years of growth as a programming language and environment. Java has about three million active developers, has gained acceptance as a staple of the enterprise computing landscape, and has become the lingua franca of university computer science curricula. With all this success, has Java reached its zenith? Or will the language's success evolve into a nonlinear explosion of further adoption and ubiquitous use?
These questions prove especially timely as Sun begins to loosen its reins on Java. It used to be that Java meant Sun Microsystems—that all progress in Java depended on Sun's support and endorsement. Those who still believe that see a cloudy future for Java, with Sun's sagging revenue growth and, hence, impaired ability to financially back the technology. In a recent interview with CBROnline, Java inventor and Sun Fellow James Gosling admitted this much: "It's hard to criticize [the C sharp language] because it is such an obvious [Java] clone. The real threat from Microsoft is [that] they can out fund us. They fund developers...Sun is not in a position where we can buy partners" (from "Gosling: Microsoft's Java Threat is Financial, Not Technical," Gavin Clarke (October 4, 2002)).
Whatever Sun's future holds, the company no longer wields sole sway over Java's direction. Over the past four years, the company has quietly shepherded Java's growth and has vested increasing control over the language's future with Java community members through the Java Community Process, or JCP.
The JCP's key role is to define and maintain the specifications that define Java. You become a JCP member when you sign the Java Specification Participation Agreement, or JSPA, thereby agreeing to follow the JCP's rules and regulations. Rob Gingell, Sun's chief engineer and fellow, who chairs the JCP, notes that presently 58 percent of Java specification requests, or JSRs, are led by Java community members that are not Sun employees. If that trend continues, Sun will have less and less say over Java. Simultaneously, Java's future will depend more on the JCP's effectiveness.
Since constant innovation is the only known antidote to going the way of the dinosaurs, how effective is the JCP when it comes to innovation? Or, is the JCP friendly to new ideas that raise Java to the next level? Does it frown upon truly original, radical thought and favor instead small, incremental change to what already exists in Java? And, most important: Why would an innovator need a community process?
Read the whole series "Effort on the Edge:"
- Part 1: Does the JCP adequately balance innovation with maintenance of Java's standards?
- Part 2: A fact-based analysis of the JCP's effectiveness
It's all (about) toast
To see the rationale for a community process, put yourself in the shoes of someone wanting to introduce innovation into Java. Or, better yet, imagine yourself in that person's bathrobe.
One autumn morning, as the scent of freshly brewed java awakens you, you head for the kitchen and toss two thin slices of sourdough into the toaster. In a few short minutes, instead of the familiar smell of toasted bread, a thin layer of smoke billows over the room. You sigh in frustration as you realize your roommate adjusted the toaster to its ultimate power!
Then comes an idea: If the toaster were controlled by software that knew your preferences, you could now be spreading Grandma's marmalade onto two perfect pieces of toast instead of tossing their carcasses in the garbage. And if toaster ovens came with embedded JVMs, you could design an API for toasters in Java! With that thought, you rush to sketch a preliminary design for your new idea—an API for Java-enabled toasters.
Necessity and curiosity not only are the architects of innovation, but, according to open source guru Eric Raymond, also are the originators of many a successful software project: "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch," he says. If that burned toast made you itch or perhaps wrinkled your nose enough to start thinking about a solution to the problem, then you're on your way to becoming the solution's originator—an innovator.
But wait...don't large corporations and universities lead real innovation? After all, an individual developer with a whiteboard design seems a long way from millions of toaster ovens warming bread with the same API. How can an individual with an idea about a Java technology see his vision become reality?
The answer to that question will shed some light on Java's future. Since all modern programming languages and environments define Turing-complete systems, you can choose any of them to implement your ideas—C#, Visual Basic, Python, C++, Perl, Delphi, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), and so forth. Some are more conducive to certain tasks than others; some are also more conducive to innovation than others. In seeing your innovation become reality, you want to implement it using a technology that's most friendly to new ideas in general, one that provides the least roadblocks and ensures your idea's broadest dissemination.
A dangerous waterhole
Back to your idea, you develop a preliminary sketch on a whiteboard, or on the back of a napkin or envelope, for an API to control toasters programmatically. Regardless of how you come up with your first design, you quickly realize that your initial sketch might not represent the best possible blueprint for a toaster API. After all, you're a software developer, not a toaster expert. So, as soon as you get to your office, you look up leading toaster experts on the Web and fire off some emails: Would they be interested in participating in the toaster API's design? Do they even think such an API is a good idea?
Soon enough, some of those experts reply: "Yes, it's a great idea, the best one since the invention of sliced bread." They agree to work with you and provide input into your design. Thus, your original idea leads to a process that defines a feasible technical solution. That process's result would be a set of guidelines or specifications. You also need to decide who can use those specifications, and how: in other words, you need to develop your licensing policy.
At that point, you encounter your first dilemma: Your toaster experts all work for competing companies. How can they cooperate on a common API, when they represent cutthroat competitors in the marketplace?
Two leading experts on open source communities, Richard Gabriel and Ron Goldman, produced "The Jini Community Pattern Language" in 1998, when the Jini community was in its infancy. They aimed to isolate the factors needed to create a new community and marketplace for innovative software ideas. They borrowed the notion of reusable, object-oriented design patterns to describe how a community interested in a common solution might work, even when competing companies are members of that community.
The Dangerous Waterhole pattern illustrates why competitors might want to cooperate in a process to develop a new technology or standard. Imagine a watering hole in a jungle. Animals eye the hole from a distance, but not one goes forward, lest it fall prey to another beast lurking behind the trees. But once an animal large enough or otherwise immune from sneak attacks descends on the watering whole, other animals soon follow suit.
A similar pattern might draw the world's biggest toaster manufacturers to the same watering hole. However, they're unlikely to initiate a common API standard on their own; why would competitors follow one company's proposal? Thus, little progress is made, until you, a neutral third party, come along and invite those companies to work together. A competitor refusing to join risks having its interests ignored.
The iterative JCP process
At its best, the JCP is such a waterhole for those interested in advancing Java. It provides a forum for proposing and discussing changes to Java, and offers a clear blueprint for how those changes take effect. In a nutshell, that process is quite simple:
Any JCP member can propose a new specification by completing a form, the JSR. The JCP executive boards then either approve the JSR for further development or reject it. The JCP has two such boards: one oversees those JSRs that affect J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) and J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), and the other directs work on J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition)-related JSRs. Each executive committee (EC) consists of 16 members, some of which are elected by the popular vote of all JCP members, while others are nominated by major Java licensees and ratified by public vote. In addition, Sun is a member of both ECs, and has special privileges and input into JSRs that propose to change the J2SE/EE/ME platforms themselves (umbrella JRSs).
Suppose you proposed a JSR, "Java API for toasters," which likely relates to J2ME. After the J2ME EC approves it for further development, you form your expert group and together develop a draft proposal. You, or another expert group member, acts as the specification lead. Once you complete a first draft, you make it available for review by all JCP members. During that stage, which may last from 30 to 90 days, any JCP member can read and comment on your specification. If you didn't specify how to toast bagels, another community member might point out that gasping lack.
After that stage closes, the EC reviews the community draft. If the committee decides the draft is solid, you would then prepare the draft for general public review, where anyone with an Internet connection, even non-JCP members, can review and comment on your draft. During that feedback period, you'd also complete the specification's reference implementation to prove that the technology is feasible. In addition, the JCP requires you to create a set of tests—a technology compatibility kit (TCK)—to verify the correctness of the spec's future implementations.
After the 30- to 90-day public review period, the EC again votes to either approve or reject the final draft. If the EC approves it, the JSR becomes an official Java standard. The JSR is maintained throughout its lifetime by the spec lead (you) or by someone you designate. Figure 1 illustrates the process by which a JSR is approved.
At the time of this writing, the JCP has approximately 650 members. According to Onno Kluyt, director of Sun's JCP Program Office, about 30 percent of the members are large, international companies, while about 20 percent are individual members not representing any company. The Java community represents a fairly international crowd: about 42 percent of members live outside the US, says Kluyt. As we write this, the number of JSRs totals 191, with 59 Java community members serving as project leads.
Take your project open source
In designing your Java toaster oven API, you might decide that going through the JCP is more trouble than it's worth. Instead, you might set up a project on SourceForge.net, communicate with your experts via email, and develop the specification as a work-in-progress document on your Website.
"Either path is feasible," notes Sun's Gingell. "Choosing one involves navigating among several considerations: requirements regarding namespace usage, efficacy of managing the effort to create the API and ongoing support, and relationships with relevant communities."
Gingell also observes that "the JCP owns the java.* and javax.* namespaces, and changes in those namespaces are managed exclusively through the JCP." If you decide to use org.toaster instead, then you don't have to use the JCP. However, adds, Gingell, "you might still choose to use the process, either formally or informally. An informal usage might mean that your SourceForge-based project takes the JCP operating procedures and rules, and runs the effort along those lines. Of course that would not be a requirement, but perhaps something people just choose to do for efficiency or convenience."
In addition to its namespaces and well-defined process, the JCP also offers an infrastructure. "A more formal usage might bring the activity into the JCP, still as part of the org.toaster namespace, but using the JCP's infrastructure to facilitate the work in some way that you find convenient, as opposed to setting it up for yourself," says Gingell. "Perhaps you'd want to take advantage of the JCP's developer community and interested parties in some way, or to ensure harmony with other [Java APIs], or to use any perceived influence and credibility the JCP might provide for your effort."
But perhaps your biggest reason for going through the JCP with your Java toaster API is because that route allows you to call it the official Java Toaster API. "All projects that hope to become part of the standard Java specification go through the JCP," says Sun's leading open source advocate Danese Cooper, who manages Sun's Open Source Programs Office. "If you did your project at [SourceForge] you might indeed succeed in creating a de facto standard, but until someone proposed to support that standard in a JSR through the JCP, it would not be part of Java. You'll notice this happened with SOAP [Simple Object Access Protocol] and UDDI [Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration], for instance."
Should Java be open source?
Those of us who witnessed—and perhaps even participated in—the growth of Linux from a few downloadable floppy images to an operating system running mission-critical enterprise applications often wonder: why bother with all that process? If Sun wants Java to grow and counter any competitive threat to who-knows-which competitor, why isn't it making the technology open source so that Java can develop the way Linux did? Linux doesn't have a formal community process, yet it has done exceedingly well.
The basic idea behind open source is simple: By making the source code for a piece of software available to all, any programmer can modify it to better suit his or her needs and redistribute the improved version to other users. By working together, a community of users and developers can improve the software's functionality and quality, and thus directly contribute to innovation. While Sun does make available the source code to the JDK and other Java technologies, the license that governs that source code restricts distributing modified versions of that code. Those provisions separate Java from truly open source initiatives, such as Linux or the Apache Web server.
As open source advocate Eric Raymond astutely observes in his essay, "The Magic Cauldron," the open source community also has a relatively well-defined process of checks and balances, and that process is partly the reason for the high quality and availability of open source software. Why wouldn't that process serve Java equally well?
Many in the Java community believe that it would. IBM, the company that some estimate has devoted more resources to Java than any other corporation, including Sun, shares that view. In an interview with ZDNet ("IBM Pressures Sun to Free Java," David Berlind (September 2002)), IBM's director of e-business strategy, Bob Sutor, pointed out the company's desire for an open process and licensing model: "IBM absolutely loves Java. We think we've done more work than anybody else on the planet in terms of Java's reliability and performance to make it enterprise ready. Moving forward, we want to be constructive. We just think the whole way that Java is standardized can be done better." More recently, as a member of the expert group for JSR 121, "Application Isolation API Specification," on October 21, 2002, the company qualified its approval vote of that specification with the following comment: "IBM supports licensing models that create an open and level playing field by allowing third parties to create independent implementations of Java specifications and that do not allow individuals or companies to exercise unnecessary control for proprietary advantage. We support open source as a licensing model for contributions in the JCP, and would hope others will support this direction. This comment is...a statement of IBM's preferred licensing model."
Java is already a leading programming language for open source projects. A quick look at Freshmeat.net reveals that about 11 percent of its registered open source projects use Java as their primary programming language. Java is also now the leading language used in university computer science research projects that often release their results under an open source license. And several open source Java projects have become de facto standards, even though they lack JSR status; Apache Ant and JUnit are just two examples.
Binary matters
Of course, when all is said and done, whether your API is an officially blessed Java standard might not matter much. SOAP and UDDI represent good examples of technologies that had nothing to do with any community process at first and became widely used because either users or a few large firms started to use them. As with SOAP or UDDI, what does make a difference for your innovation is how widely and universally it is employed. In ensuring that all Java innovations, whether JSRs or open source projects, enjoy the broadest possible distribution, the JCP, paradoxically, plays a most important role.
The reason for that lies more in that little gray box you call your computer than in some fancy philosophical argument. As Bill Venners, author of Inside the Java Virtual Machine (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2000) reminds us, Java is really four distinct things: a virtual machine blueprint, a binary (byte code) format specification, a programming language, and a set of class libraries defined in that programming language. While programmers think mostly of APIs and class libraries, when your code hits the silicon, it's all binary. You might have open source libraries at which you can hack away at will, but you certainly cannot play with the instruction set of the chip that runs your compiled software.
The problem of dispensing with the JCP is that without its TCK requirements, anyone can play around with the instruction set embedded in the JVM and still distribute that altered code as a JVM. It's akin to a situation where all those little gray boxes peppering offices and homes tick to a different Pentium specimen that may or may not be compatible with other varieties of the same chip. Then, when you install your next Red Hat Software distribution, the binaries fail in unpredictable ways because of slight CPU incompatibilities.
"The open source community likes to believe that the systems will not be taken in incompatible directions," says Ken Arnold, chief architect at EventMonitor and coauthor, with James Gosling and David Holmes, of The Java Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 2000). "When Write Once, Run Anywhere is your reason for existing, this is not something to be taken lightly. If you make an incompatible version of sendmail, the person you mostly end up hurting is yourself. If you make an incompatible version of Java, then the people who get hurt are those who try to ship code or run shipped code. Dividing the Java universe into two incompatible versions does more harm to Java than an incompatible sendmail does to mail systems."
Adds Sun's Rob Gingell: "Product fragmentation in the marketplace relates to the existence of binary standards. The Linux community effectively exists on IA32 [the Intel 32-bit instruction set architecture] and lives synergistically with an emphatic standard of the PC hardware marketplace. That, coupled with the preexisting Unix applications base, has been a strong enough market force to prevent fragmentation." He should know, as he was instrumental in developing the Solaris Application Binary Interface, as well as the format of .so
(shared object) files—the equivalent of DLLs (dynamic link libraries) on Unix—in your library directories.
"The industry is full of pundits who predict Linux's inevitable fragmentation, but I don't agree that fragmentation is inevitable," he continues. "What will prevent it are the binaries...that are interchangeable among the distributions, which are also binary products. It's that attribute, and not the terms under which the source is available, that prevents or causes fragmentation."
Arnold also notes that "one thing open source projects have almost never had to deal with is someone actively hostile and who doesn't care to control something if they can just fragment it enough to destroy it. Look at Microsoft's first play at mucking with Java. The keywords they added weren't blindingly powerful, but were interesting enough to some people to say 'sure.' But if there are two versions of Java, then Java's just another language, not a deployment platform you can rely upon. And Microsoft surely would have been nearly as happy to fragment the Java world as to take it over. Either way, it ceases to be a threat to them. I can't think of an open source project that had to deal with that kind of assault."
Leaders in the open source community admit to that much. Sun's Danese Cooper points out the dilemma between optional and mandatory compatibility requirements: "I've asked many open source experts to come to Sun to talk about the merits of open source, and when we talk about Java, the question of compatibility always comes up. It's clear that mandatory compatibility and open source can't coexist. Optional compatibility (and optional branding) are consistent with open source. So the question is, 'Can the value proposition of Java withstand optional compatibility?'
"Personally," she adds, "I've seen the power of community censure that stopped embrace-and-extend from overtaking the Internet protocols at Apache, for instance. But I'm an optimist. The stewards of Java have so far not felt comfortable taking the final open source step...although Sun has said that a time in the future [will arrive] when the market will protect the value proposition of Java sufficiently and the license model won't matter."
Better than open source?
With the JCP 2.5, Sun may have started down that final step. With 2.5, the only thing differentiating the JCP from pure open source projects is the JCP's requirement that projects produce and maintain a compatibility suite, along with the specifications and a reference implementation. The latest JCP changes specifically let a JSR spec lead choose any working style she wishes during the JSR's development process. What's more, those latest changes also enable a JSR lead to determine the licensing model under which the expert group releases the specifications, the reference implementation, and compatibility test kit. Thus, if you so choose, you can now run an open source project through the JCP—you can use an open source license for your project.
Another important area the JCP 2.5 clarifies is the assignment of intellectual property used during an expert group's work. The toaster experts working on the Java Toaster API expert group will likely be employed by companies that have invested decades of research into the intricacies of browning the perfect toast. Naturally, they will be interested in protecting the value of the work they have invested so much into.
One way they can do that is by filing and protecting patents on their innovations. According to Larry Rosen, of the law firm Rosenlaw.com, Sun has many patents on Java-related technologies and has not made clear to Java users just what patents apply to what parts of Java. "The open source community has asked Sun a number of times to disclose their patents concerning Java. However, Sun has so far not done so," says Rosen, who also acts as legal counsel to the Open Source Initiative, opensource.org.
"By not knowing what patents are outstanding on a given technology, users of that technology can, unintentionally, infringe upon those patents," he continues. "That is not limited to Sun and Java, however. The open source community has up to now acted as ostriches with regards to patents. That attitude has prevented many large corporations from using and contributing to open source software."
Rosen recently spearheaded an initiative to address the need for patent disclosure in open source projects. He and his colleagues at the Open Source Initiative developed a new Open Source License that explicitly calls for patents to be identified and patent rights to be assigned. When you use a piece of software released under the Open Source License, that software's creator "grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license, under patent claims owned or controlled by the Licensor." If you decide to release your toaster API for Java under the Open Source License, you grant your users the right "to make, use, sell, and offer for sale derivative works" royalty-free.
But how can you, as a JSR lead, grant that right, where those patents are owned by the companies that make up your expert group? The JCP 2.5 JSPA addresses both in-bound and out-bound intellectual property. In-bound intellectual property is the set of patents, licenses, or other rights that you and your expert group members bring to the table. Out-bound intellectual property signifies the rights of your specification's users, reference implementation, and compatibility test kit.
In essence, when your experts join your expert group, they grant the spec lead the right to sublicense the existing intellectual property they bring to developing the JSR. That not only includes patents, but copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets as well. You and your experts can, in turn, choose whatever license form you desire for your output. If you choose the new Open Source License, you steer your technology's users clear of possible infringement on patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property they might not initially be aware of.
Sun is playing by those new rules. "Prior to the use of JCP 2.0, [Sun's Java licensees] were the only ones to gain access to the technologies needed to implement the things that comprise the Java technology from Sun," explains Gingell. "And licensees typically got all of the specifications, implementations, and conformance tests along with service and support programs as a bundle.
"One way to look at JCP and its evolution is that it's a process of unbundling all of these things. As of JCP 2.5...the specifications, reference implementations, conformance tests are all separately available," adds Gingle. "J2SE is not today available under the terms of JCP 2.5. Sun did commit to making available some of the JSRs it has led under 2.5 terms prior to the adoption of 2.5 by the JCP, and we have committed that all prior JSRs would be available under those terms but on an indefinite schedule. The expectation is that those changes will occur as maintenance on the technology occurs, roughly over the course of a year or so we'd expect."
To facilitate open source J2SE implementations, in August 2002, Sun announced a scholarship program for qualified nonprofit organizations that require access to Sun's compatibility tests to verify their adherence to JSR standards. Nonprofit groups that qualify can obtain Sun's compatibility test kits free of charge.
Gingell notes that, "When J2SE is available under the terms of JCP 2.5, if someone wanted to implement it from specifications, they could do so without also licensing the reference implementation. They would have to license the TCKs to verify that they'd made a compatible implementation. They would thus have to be a TCK licensee, which would be available for free to qualified nonprofits."
Innovation or stagnation?
While the last JCP changes address most issues the open source community raised about Sun's treatment of Java, we must still ask how inclusive the JCP is in representing the 3 million-strong Java developer community.
Participation in the JCP generally requires the payment of an annual fee. To defray costs, Sun's JCP Program Office charges an annual fee of 00 for individuals not representing any company, and ,000 for company members. If you are only interested in participating in a single expert group, as an individual, you don't have to join the JCP; hence, you pay nothing.
In addition to that annual fee, running a JSR can be time consuming. In Part 2 of this article, several JSR leads will share their experiences and recount the true effort involved in creating a successful JSR. Given the required time and financial commitment, a danger is that large corporations start to dominate the JCP's agenda. Large companies with many existing customers often prefer incremental advances in step with customer requests. Consequently, breakthrough ideas that may infuse Java with vitality and allow it to remain relevant over time might be increasingly difficult to propose through the JCP. "The JCP," according to Gingell, "is about trying to find a vehicle that both rapidly meets the customer interests in universality while recognizing that innovation occurs primarily as an effort on the edge."
Is the JCP currently accomplishing this goal? We will answer that question in Part 2, as we analyze the JCP's effectiveness from publicly available data.


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WUHAN, China (AFP) - An outraged Denmark has vowed to pursue an apparent spying incident that has dogged the women's World Cup, as FIFA remained adamant Sunday that the case was closed.
"I have never experienced a case like this," Danish Football Association chairman Allan Hansen was quoted as saying by Danish media.
"It is grotesque that two Chinese men can sit behind a mirror and videotape the final meeting for the Danish women's national team before their match against China.
"I am in no doubt that FIFA and the Chinese police now know who the two men are. But I and the Danish FA would also like to know who they are and what went on," he told Denmark's leading daily newspaper Politiken.
Denmark team spokeswoman Pia Schou Nielsen said Sunday that the Danish FA had decided to temporarily shelve the case to focus on football but would press FIFA once the World Cup was over.
"After the tournament we will contact FIFA and get to the bottom of the case," Nielsen said, adding that they were still waiting for a report from Chinese police.
They remain irked after the two men, described as Chinese, were found with cameras hiding behind a two-way mirror ahead of the Danish team's key tactical meeting before their clash with China last Wednesday
Earlier in the week, the team discovered men filming them from a building at a closed training session. Denmark lost the match 3-2.
FIFA issued a statement on Thursday saying an investigation concluded that the men had nothing to do with football, but gave no other explanation.
"Everything that we have had to say on the issue has already been said," FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot said Sunday.
The FIFA statement said that Danish authorities had agreed to drop the case but the issue has continued to dog the tournament as Danish anger has grown.
The case is potentially embarrassing to China, a nation that is preparing to host the Olympics in Beijing next year.
Police in Wuhan were not available Sunday to comment, while Chinese Football Association officials this week have only quoted the FIFA statement, saying the investigation proved there was nothing further to pursue.
Local press at the weekend carried articles insisting that there had been "No spying against Denmark".
Danish head coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller earlier described the incidents as "shocking".


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Multi-Spectral Holographic Three-Dimensional Image Fusion Using Discrete Wavelet Transform
Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp. 411-417 (2006)
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We present multi-spectral holographic three-dimensional image fusion using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The fusion results are compared with those of the Gaussian and Laplacian pyramid fusion methods. The advantage of the DWT over other methods is that it has more flexibility in controlling high frequency components as well as low frequency components, which improves the fused image quality. A wavelength tunable solid-state pumped laser is used to record up to 11 holograms with wavelengths from 567 to 613 nm. We present the fused reconstructed holographic images including multi-spectral fused images from the recorded multiple holograms. Fused multi-wavelength reconstructed holographic images provide multi-spectral information about the objects.
Bahram Javidi, Cuong Manh Do, Seung-Hyun Hong, and Takanori Nomura, "Multi-Spectral Holographic Three-Dimensional Image Fusion Using Discrete Wavelet Transform," J. Display Technol. 2, 411-417 (2006)
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Name: Griffon Minos
Age: 21 (Stop Aging)
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 25
Nationality: Norway (Oslo)
Faction: Evil
Affiliation: None
Height: 1.84 m
Weight: 72 kg
Speciality: Cosmetic Powers
Aliases: The King of The Dead, The Marionettes King, The Great Griffon
Place of Birth: Northern Europe in Norway, in Osio
Orientation: Heterosexual
Race: Specter Incarnation
Family: Paria (first wife), Dexithea (second wife), Children are: Euxanthius, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Philolaus, Chryses
Minos had always been mysterious, and had acted as though he was hiding his true self. By his name, Minos meaning "King" he is very arrogant and has a high ego like a Griffon. His sense of humor comes from when he torments his opponents with different methods of torturing he states that they remind him of the screams of the damn when he judges them to Tartarus. It is most likely that Minos is a sadist and enjoys causing pain without remorse nor sadness. He himself can be a masochist in battle stating that the pain will only make him stronger. Though beside his merciless personality he is a cool and collective person who observes before engaging with anyone, setting strategies up and traps for his enemies to go wander in. He takes a lot of Pride in being the Judge of the Dead and being a demigod as well. His most notable personality is his cruelty to anyone he comes across, comrade, partner, or foe he is cruel to everyone. He is not the one to talk and remains quiet unless spoke to, he will never act out of order and will remain civilize at all situation unless he is in battle. Also he is very tricky, he will say anything to save his death and will even accuse someone else for his crimes. He is also the most feared resident of the Underworld.
"From the first circle thus I came descending To the second, which, in narrower compass turning, Holds greater woe, with outcry loud and rending."
"There in the threshold, horrible and gimping, Grim Minos sits, holding his ghastly session, And, as he girds him, sentencing and spurning;"
"For when the ill soul faces him, confessionPours out of it till nothing's left to tell; Whereon that connoisseur of all transgression"
"Assigns it to its proper place in hell, As many grades as he would have it fall, So oft he belts him round with his own tail.""
Before him stands a throng continual; Each comes in turn to abye the fell arraign; They speak - they hear - they're whirled down one and all."
Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every year he made King Aegeus pick 7 men and 7 women to go to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by The Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades. Though after millenniums of boredom Minos decided to ask Lord Hades if he can return to the mortal world and Hades allowed him to do so, So he was incarnated into a human baby and thus Minos was born. Hades allowed him to be born with his unique powers and abilities as well as letting him free wheel the universe. Minos was for filled by his granted wish and began doing so by wrecking humanity apart. His true form remains in the Underworld still judging the damn though he himself is in a human form.
Powers & Abilities
Big Will:
Because the Big Will is a spiritual force, each creation that derived from it had a soul. So it seems normal that we find ourselves capable of communicating with stars spiritually and also the fact that stars have an impact on our destiny is not far from the truth. While Humanity prospered in numbers, some powerful Gods decided they should reincarnate through Humans. In their Human form, they weren't able to [sense, awake] the Big Will in themselves at first. If the discovery of aura, or Cosmos, was achieved by controlling the 7th sense, to discover the Big Will in oneself was possible only by mastering the 8th and 9th senses. At first, three men succeeded in reaching awareness of the Big Will to completely reincarnate in their full power. They possessed great power like immortality and they named themselves Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. Considered as gods by the rest, each acquired and conquered his own territory.Zeus took earth and heaven, Poseidon was content with oceans and Hades got the dimensional plane where all souls go after death.
Dunamis: Basically it's the ability to manipulate all matter on an atomic scale. Its how the Primordial Gods manipulated the universe to their liking. Even the Titans can create their own Pocket Universe and manipulate everything in it. For example a Planet was reduced in size through the use of Dunamis.
Cosmos Power: The power originated from the understanding of the "Cosmo". Everything in the universe is made up of particles. And the origin of the universe and everything in it is tied in with the Big Bang. The Gods take this knowledge to another level: humans are made of particles, thus humans should be able to use the mysterious forces behind the particles. This is because, the energies of the Big Bang still reside within all particles.
Wielding His Cosmos: Minos wields "the power cosmic", absorbing and manipulating the universe's ambient cosmic energies. He can augment his strength to incalculable levels, and is almost totally indestructible. He can navigate space, hyperspace and dimensional barriers, and can fly at near-limitless speeds on his board, entering hyperspace when he exceeds light speed.
7th sense: here one can exploit its Telepathic, Telekinetic, Pisonic, Cladiverice etc.. basically Psychic powers in general. In order to reach the 7th sense, a human MUST have mastery over the 6 preceding senses. Only through personal awareness (free of emotions), establishing contact with one's center (its soul). Through the mastery of the 7th sense, a being overall senses and perception is increased. It burns one own Cosmo to a higher standard. Thus grant Light Speed movements, physical augmentation, more energy to command. One is able to farther explore its cosmo, and develop unique abilities through the 7th sense.
8th & 9th sense: The 8th level of consciousness and this power grants a human the ability to fully control his soul and go to the Kingdom of the Underworld and still be alive or any spiritual field.
9th: The 9th sense lies farther beneath the 8th pervious ones. Its when a human or beings Cosmo reaches critical mass, and expends without limit. Yet is able to harness it, and transcend their power to a higher level of any cosmos.
Special Techniques
Cosmic Marionnetion: Minos wraps his opponent with strings of cosmo energy, entrapping and turning them into living, human marionnettes. The Cosmic Marionettion is also able to control an enemy's technique and abilities as well and can be used against others by his will. The cosmetic threads are unbreakable though they are extremely hard to avoid and dodge since they're invisible to enemies eye.
Gigantic Feathers Flap: Using his wings Minos creates an explosion of massive cosmetic energy, similar to a shock wave that expands in all directions, destroying everything in its path. This attack standing at 1.2xE44 joules, and around half a trillion times that needed for unbinding the earth, with the temperature at the core reaching over 90 billion degrees Celsius. Further up the range. This attack varies in destroying multiple stars at once.
Divine Punishment: Minos uses the Meikai Underworld Waves to summon the souls of the dead that attack the enemy with a powerful blast simultaneously. This attack destructive capacity is city wide.
Minos' Surplice: Minos' surplice represents a Gryphon, the mythical creature often recognized as the King of Beasts in ancient folklore from several Western civilizations. Minos Surplice holds a few unique traits to it, it's ridiculously stronger than any armor found on Earth and can withstand impacts from star level attacks. Perhaps multiple and is close to a galaxy tanker. It also holds various constellations such as the Leo, Aiolos, and Gemini which are a few representations of Griffon's who've died and became stars. Minos himself wears this surplice to conceal his form from imploding into a miniature star. The surplice is made from from unknown material from Hephaestus who resides in the Underworld.
Minos without his armor has the ability to morph into a Griffon for an hour or more. This form grants him the ability to become the most feared beast in the world. He has talons capable of ripping reality and causing rifts in the air and as well has his wings that send hurricanes mixed with cosmetic energy that can destroy stars with ease. Though this Form has a time limit Minos himself has no control so he never intends on using it unless its a situation between life or death. His strength is that he's capable of collapsing islands through landing. The power and form was given from Hades himself he amplified Minos as you can see from the top pic.


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The Puppy by Jeff Koons has smiling people clustering about in wonder. It is a definite lure into a famous museum in Spain. Several times a year the flowers are changed for a new batch
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Nude dudes were having a bare it all time in Mallorca. In the small town of Sant Joan, on the beautiful island off the coast of Spain, the Catholic Darallament Youth Group decided to show their stuff.
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I can see different moods of a city by standing on a bridge. Photo Friday on The Scoop takes you another bridge that is a high contrast to the rich history of the city where this bridge raises it's bright red facade to the sky. Where in Spain is this?
Photo Friday – Where In Spain Is This?
Circles ingeniously form the structure of this bridge in Southern Spain. I have walked this bridge many times and it is a beauty at night. Lovelocks are clipped on by the thousands signifying a couples unending love. They throw the key into the river to pledge their love for eternity
Photo Friday – Where In Spain Is This?
The Photo Friday bridge theme on The Spain Scoop continues. This bridge is a very short bridge, but what a great view. The river, once roaring, has turned into a trickle. The river supplied the city in this arid land with crops, palm trees, and bougainvillea. It is discreet and a charmer.
Photo Friday – Where In Spain Is This?
I love a bridge. Short, long, made of stone, bricks, steel. Bridges unite, connect community, and give one a totally different perspective. November's Photo Friday is all about bridges. This bridge is amazing. Designed by Spain's famous architect, Santiago Calatrava, it's a pedestrian only bridge
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Oh, this place is famous - a church built on top of a centuries old Mosque. More beautiful by night with it's distinctive square tower. An extrodinary garden is next to it
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Eight thousand visitors amble through this famous palace and gardens a week. One of the world's great wonders located in Southern Spain
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This amazing sculpture made of ceramics tiles is called The Dragon's Back. It forms a roof and can also be seen from the street. Created by a famous architect in Spain.
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Gert Strydom
(after S. Ign. Mocke)
Much further than man's science can see and reach
systems of stars and planets pay honour to You
and much deeper than our conception can ever understand
is the ways that Your omnipotent thoughts constantly dwell
and on Your command star-systems and planets do appear
and the last elements of others are burned out
where in immortality You see everything beyond the bonds of time,
vigilantly keep Your hands over the undetermined space
and let Your laws, constraints, righteousness and love occur everywhere
and to me a mortal man bring salvation as a child of the King.
The thunder that flashes blue-white
when rain falls from your storage rooms
continually tells about your care and omnipotence,
in the smallest things your love and mercy is present
and when flowers bloom everywhere in spring,
when the sun rises in the hot summer
and stars gleam like torches in your heaven,
when the sun rises and disappears beyond the far horizon
I do realize that between everything there is a relationship,
that Your light penetrates through every kind of darkness
and then I do know that your heart beat pulses in all living things,
that in wisdom You do give life and let it stop,
that the names of those that follow you are etched in the marks of Your hands
and that You listen like a father to each one that asks,
that a will to serve You is hard-wired from the age-old beginning
and that a life without You is stripped from all meaning and sense,
that You also hold Your hands protecting over the cells of everyone that does exist,
that you walk ahead to pave the way for everyone
and when the winds of destiny do blow wild
I do know that our lives still do revolve in Your great plan.
[Reference: "Verwantskap" (relationship) by S. Ign. Mocke.]
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