Lautrec Portrait Rendering

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

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Two cases of pycnodysostosis (the malady of Toulouse-Lautrec).

PYCNODYSOSTOSIS is a rare disease. Only thirty-three cases have appeared in the literature since 1923. The term pycnodysostosis (from the Greek pycnos I =dense, dus=defective and stosis=of bone) was tS U i{: ' ..........; coined by Maroteaux & Lamy in 1962 for an apparent j clinical entity which included micromelic dwarfism, increased radiological density of bone, dysplasia of the skull, atroph...

Exemplar-Based Portrait Photograph Enhancement as Informed by Portrait Paintings

This paper proposes an approach to enhance the regional contrasts in snap-shot style portrait photographs by using pre-modern portrait paintings as aesthetic exemplars. The example portrait painting is selected based on a comparison of the existing contrast properties of the painting and the photograph. The contrast organization in the selected example painting is transferred to the photograph ...

Self Portrait of Youth