And this is the beginning of computer graphics.

This next one is The Patriot Game, by Dominic Behan.

I Beam

A household disintegrator beam.

(Laughter)

Long range laser scanning by sending out a pulse that's a laser beam of light.

It's 1.76 kilohertz. I measure its wavelength.

Alert all commands. Ready for the tractor beam.

! We're caught in a tractor beam.

I'd never get past the tractor beam.

He says he's found the main controls... to the power beam that's holding the ship here.

It caused immense celebration in the control room.

They'll be in range of our tractor beam in moments, lord.

This oh sorry, don't look at the beam. My fault.

This was Fizeau's solution to sending discrete pulses of light.

The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor... in seven locations.

If your hand gets caught in the beam, it's gonna go numb for hours. Sorry.

I hope that old man got that tractor beam out of commission... or this is gonna be a real short trip.

I just hope the old man got the tractor beam out of commission.

. ..it was just some kind of big outline in the disintegrator beams.

Electric fields are not ionizing radiation,

like the charm quark and the tau lepton.

Well, you saw it yourself, standing in those neutron beams.

My beams are focused on your blasters, gentlemen.

It also uses photons, but they're all synchronized, and if you focus them into a beam, what you have is an incredibly useful tool.

All I need now is to flip on another beam, and the bottom beam is me talking, right?

And if I don't need it, I can convert it back up on the window to energy, light, and beam it,

And we collide them with another beam of protons going in the opposite direction.

With two mirrors, the scanner calculates the beam's horizontal and vertical angles, giving accurate x, y, and z coordinates.

It's a picture of the first beam particle going all the way around the LHC, colliding with a piece of the LHC deliberately, and showering particles into the detector.

Such as in the case of the Kinect, which is a triangulation based device, or you have this inaudible which essentially measures, distances by.

The afternoon shadows stretched eastward, and the round red sun stood thoughtfully on the horizon, and his beams shone yellow and calm into the little bed room where George and his wife were sitting.

Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low arched way cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round you enter the public room.