Human Trafficking Depot

Depot (děpō or dēpō) is from the French dépôt which means a deposit (as in geology or banking) or a storehouse. In English, depot can mean any one of a number of things, with minor variances between the different English speaking countries.

Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation. It is estimated to be a $5 to $9 billion-a-year industry.[1]The Council Of Europe states “People trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, with a global annual market of about $42.5 billion”.[2][3] Trafficking victims typically are recruited using coercion, deception, fraud, the abuse of power, or outright abduction. Threats, violence, and economic leverage can often make a victim consent to exploitation.

Exploitation includes forcing people into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children, exploitation may also include forced prostitution, illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, or recruitment as child soldiers, beggars, for sports (such as child camel jockeys or football players), or for religious cults.[4]

Scan from a Kodak 400 Color.

Lines

A line can be described as an ideal zero-width,[1] infinitely long, perfectly straight curve (the term curve in mathematics includes “straight curves”)[2] containing an infinite number of points. In Euclidean geometry, exactly one line can be found that passes through any two points. The line provides the shortest connection between the points.[3]

In two dimensions, two different lines can either be parallel, meaning they never meet, or may intersect at one and only one point. In three or more dimensions, lines may also be skew, meaning they don’t meet, but also don’t define a plane. Two distinct planes intersect in at most one line. Three or more points that lie on the same line are called collinear.

Scan from a Kodak 400 Color.

Unit Square

In a Cartesian coordinate system with coordinates (x , y) is defined as the square consisting of the points where both x and y lie in the unit interval from 0 to 1.

Whether the interval used is open or closed, and at which ends, is at the discretion of the user of the term, who should make it clear which precise definition they are using; however, the term unit interval is most usually used to refer to the closed interval [0,1]

While an image can be transformed in various ways, pure warping means that points are mapped to points without changing the colors. This can be based mathematically on any function from (part of) the plane to the plane. If the function is injective the original can be reconstructed. If the function is a bijection any image can be inversely transformed.

The following list is not meant to be a partitioning of all available methods into categories.

• Images may be distorted through simulation of optical aberrations.
• Images may be viewed as if they had been projected onto a curved or mirrored surface. (This can be seen in renderings from the program POV-Ray.)
• Images can be partitioned into polygons and each polygon distorted.
• Images can be distorted using morphing.

There are at least two ways to generate an image using whatever chosen methods to distort.

• (forward-mapping) a given mapping from sources to images is directly applied
• (reverse-mapping) for a given mapping from sources to images, the source is found from the image

To estimate what kind of warping has taken place between consecutive images, one can use optical flow estimation techniques.

Scan from a Kodak 400 Color.

lö ./part2 - l’urbain

An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets.

Portrait with multiple flash, stitched together in photoshop.

lö ./part1 - la nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. “Nature” refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Manufactured objects and human interaction are not considered part of nature unless qualified in ways such as “human nature” or “the whole of nature”. Nature is generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the galactic.

Portrait with multiple flash, stitched together in photoshop.