Involuntary dances

Dances with Words

Animated text is an appealing field of creative graphical design. Manually designed text animation is largely employed in advertising, movie titles and web pages. In this paper we propose to link, through state of the art NLP techniques, the affective content detection of a piece of text to the animation of the words in the text itself. This methodology allows us to automatically generate affec...

Dances with magpies

Listening to scientist Nicola Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge, and choreographer Mark Baldwin, Artistic Director at Rambert Dance Company, finishing each other’s sentences, one could get the impression that the notorious divide between the two cultures never existed. Science and dance are twins separated at birth, it appears. Both work with ideas witho...

Attend the Rice Dances

Following this will be q program of semi-classical, popular, and military music. Arrangements will be so varied that everybody should find some p|eces of especial Meres t . "Just ail Echo in the Valley," current song hit, will be followed by the march, "Reign of Rhythm." Then will come "Atlantis," suite in four parts. "Dinah", with which the band j won much fame during the football season, and ...

Stroke Matching for Paint Dances

We have implemented a non-photorealistic rendering system which simulates the placement of paint/pencil/pastel strokes to produce representational artworks from digital images. The system is able to record an image of each paint stroke independent of the overall picture, in addition to some details about each stroke. Working with sets of paint strokes from paintings of different images, we inve...

Rain dances, microstructure and transformations