Portraits of Frames

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Artistic Rendering of Portraits

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...

Painted Aperture for Portraits

Photographers often wish to control the depth of field. In particular, for portrait photography, a shallow depth of field can have dramatic effects on the composition and the feel of the picture. For example, a shallow depth of field can help direct attention to the subject by blurring out objects too close or too far from the camera, such as distracting objects or faces. Also, focusing on an o...

Portraits of Hippocrates.

DESCRIPTION OF WELLCOME TILE* The tile is an elongated octagon in shape. It has a blue tinted glaze, and bright blue decoration with the motto in maroon. The sides of the tile are chamfered, and the glaze on the back is in irregular patches. The design of the Society of Apothecaries' Arms-with ribbon-like scrollwork to the sides of Apollo, who has an unusual 'Red Indian' headdress-is quite dist...

Portraits of complex networks

We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and allows for rigorous statistical comparison between networks. Dynamic processes such as percolation can be visualized using animation. Introduction. – Large, complex ...