LVII. On painting

Painting Nature on the Wing

he Sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks, " wrote Winslow Homer to his brother Charles, putting into words what drove his art (1). All his life, the artist " noticed " —not just the rising and setting sun from his home near the ocean at Prouts Neck, Maine, but everything around him: people; scenery of his hunting and fishing trips; wildlife, which he painted with passion; obj...

Real-Time Oil Painting on Mobile Hardware

This paper presents a realistic digital oil painting system, specifically targeted at the real-time performance on highly resource constrained portable hardware such as tablets and iPads. To effectively use the limited computing power, we develop an efficient adaptation of the Shallow Water Equations that models all the characteristic properties of oil paint. The pigments are stored in a multi-...

Immersive Painting

This paper presents a human machine interface, which helps elderly people learn how to become aware of their physical state and how to influence it. One of the biggest requirements for such a system is to provide an intuitive interface which does not overexert an elderly person, while also being easily accepted. Here, the connection of art and computer science offers the ideal outlet for such a...

Lvii. on Carrageen (chondrus Crispus). Iii. the Constitution of the Cell Wall1

HISTORICAL. MANY workers have from time to time investigated Chondrus crispus, but of recent years the most exhaustive work has been done by Sebor. The presence of galactose had been established by Fluckiger and Obermayer [1868], and Bente [1875, 1876] had found among the products of the action ,f acid upon carrageen levulinic acid and a sugar, which showed little or no optical activity. Haedic...

Lvii. Dehydrogenases of the Filtrable Organism of Agalactia