C. Phillips

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Ph...

The author presents the results of his research on the problem of creating a synthetic or surrogate human form to be used by engineers and designers who are accustomed to computer-aided design techniques. His studies explore the simulation of human figures by graphics techniques.